{"id":848,"date":"2012-03-21T23:18:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T23:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2012-03-21T23:19:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T23:19:48","slug":"gonia-picea-on-the-wing-2132012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/gonia-picea-on-the-wing-2132012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonia picea on the wing &#8211; 21\/3\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a sunny day so I took a short walk across <a href=\"http:\/\/hartslock.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hartslock Nature Reserve<\/a> this lunchtime, with a vague idea that I might see some tachinids, like <em>Tachina ursina<\/em>. But to my great surprise (because they had never been recorded there before) I saw lots of <em>Gonia picea<\/em> all zigzagging low over the grass. This species seems to have done well recently because we received more records than normal last year and perhaps it has\u00a0benefited\u00a0from the recent warm, dry Springs?<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-848 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-picea-Hartslock-2012-03-21_002.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-picea-Hartslock-2012-03-21_002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-picea-Hartslock-2012-03-21_008.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-picea-Hartslock-2012-03-21_008-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Anyway, it shows that there are interesting tachinids flying right now so get out with your nets and cameras on any sunny day! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a sunny day so I took a short walk across Hartslock Nature Reserve this lunchtime, with a vague idea that I might see&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[379,325],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gonia-picea","tag-hartslock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}