{"id":9839,"date":"2019-12-06T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T00:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9839"},"modified":"2019-12-06T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T00:06:32","slug":"december-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=9839","title":{"rendered":"December 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2019 December 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

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     <\/strong>Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:  During my – unsuccessful – search for female Operophtera<\/em>, I found a dead fly, which looked strange to me.  After taking pictures, I have the suspicion that it is a fairly ordinary fly and that the grey rings might be some fungal growth.<\/p>\n

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  Jeremy Tatum writes:  Jochen is right on both counts – the fly is “ordinary” and the growth is a fungus.  I cannot be totally certain of the fly, but I believe it is most likely the Common House Fly <\/strong>Musca domestica<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong>   <\/strong>This fly isn’t actually all that “ordinary” – many of the flies that come into my apartment are usually Fannia, <\/em>or Calliphora<\/em>, or Pollenia<\/em> – I don’t often see genuine Musca<\/em>.  Also some tachinids look quite like this fly, and with quite similar wing venation.  However, Musca domestica <\/em>at present looks like the best fit. We are grateful to Bill Savale for confirming that the growth is indeed a fungus, which probably infected the fly while it was still alive, and subsequently killed it.  Bill tells us that the fungus is a phycomycete, Entomophthora muscae<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Musca domestica <\/em>(Dip.: Muscidae) infected with Entomophthora muscae<\/em>    <\/em>Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Musca domestica <\/em>(Dip.: Muscidae) infected with Entomophthora muscae<\/em>    <\/em>Jochen M\u00f6hr<\/p>\n

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Musca domestica <\/em>(Dip.: Muscidae) infected with Entomophthora muscae<\/em>    <\/em>Jochen M\u00f6hr <\/p>\n

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Musca domestica <\/em>(Dip.: Muscidae) infected with Entomophthora muscae<\/em>    <\/em>Jochen M\u00f6hr <\/p>\n

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   In spite of its being December, there are more invertebrate photographs in the queue – they’ll have to wait until tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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2019 December 6        Jochen M\u00f6hr writes from Metchosin:  During my – unsuccessful – search for female Operophtera, I found a dead fly, which looked strange to me.  After taking pictures, I have the suspicion that it is a fairly ordinary fly and that the grey rings might be some fungal growth.     […]<\/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-9839","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\/9839","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=9839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}