{"id":940,"date":"2012-04-19T22:51:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T22:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2012-04-20T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T14:30:41","slug":"tachina-lurida-on-the-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/tachina-lurida-on-the-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tachina lurida on the wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a nice record from Tristan Bantock on the 17th &#8211; a <em>Tachina lurida<\/em>, seen on Parkland Walk near Crouch Hill tube station. They look superficially like the slightly earlier <em>Tachina ursina<\/em> but they are slightly less hairy and they lack a white band on the front of tergite 5.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-946\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tachina-lurida-tristan-bantock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-946\" title=\"Tachina-lurida-tristan-bantock\" src=\"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tachina-lurida-tristan-bantock-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tachina-lurida-tristan-bantock-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tachina-lurida-tristan-bantock-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tachina-lurida-tristan-bantock-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tachina-lurida-tristan-bantock-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tachina-lurida-tristan-bantock.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tachina lurida, \u00a9 Tristan Bantock, 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;re also getting plenty of reports of <em>Gymnocheta viridis<\/em> on the wing in the UK &#8211; usually seen sunning themselves on fence posts and tree trunks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gymnocheta-viridis-Hartslock-May-2004-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-259\" title=\"Gymnocheta viridis\" src=\"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gymnocheta-viridis-Hartslock-May-2004-04-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gymnocheta-viridis-Hartslock-May-2004-04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gymnocheta-viridis-Hartslock-May-2004-04-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gymnocheta-viridis-Hartslock-May-2004-04-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gymnocheta-viridis-Hartslock-May-2004-04-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gymnocheta-viridis-Hartslock-May-2004-04.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gymnocheta viridis, \u00a9 Chris Raper, 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a nice record from Tristan Bantock on the 17th &#8211; a Tachina lurida, seen on Parkland Walk near Crouch Hill tube station. 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