{"id":17898,"date":"2023-04-17T18:16:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17898"},"modified":"2023-04-18T17:36:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T00:36:28","slug":"2023-march-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=17898","title":{"rendered":"2023 April 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\"><b>2023 April 17<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum shows a photograph of a <b>bibionid fly<\/b> from Saanich today.\u00a0 Bibionids flies are sometimes rather inappropriately called March flies, although they typically fly in late April, near to St Mark\u2019s Day, April 25, and the more appropriate name is St Mark\u2019s Fly.\u00a0 The males of many species of flies have eyes that are larger than the eyes of the females. This is particularly marked in the bibionids.\u00a0 The individual below is a female \u2013 which is also indicated by its dark wings.\u00a0 The species is probably <i>Bibio xanthopus<\/i>, although out of caution I shall label it just as a bibionid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-31.png\" alt=\"image.png\" width=\"342\" height=\"466\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0cm; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"center\">Female bibionid fly\u00a0 (Dip.: Bibionidae)\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 April 17 &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 Jeremy Tatum shows a photograph of a bibionid fly from Saanich today.\u00a0 Bibionids flies are sometimes rather inappropriately called March flies, although they typically fly in late April, near to St Mark\u2019s Day, April 25, and the more appropriate name is St Mark\u2019s Fly.\u00a0 The males of many species of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17898"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17905,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17898\/revisions\/17905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}