{"id":2518,"date":"2014-09-04T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T05:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2015-01-13T11:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T01:29:42","slug":"day-976-yellow-shouldered-stout-hover-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"Day 976, Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well at least I think it&#8217;s Simosyrphus grandicornis, but then it could be Ischiodon scutellaris.<\/p>\n<p>Not being an entomologist the above are my best guesses but I can confidently say it&#8217;s a Common Hover Fly.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed this little guy hovering motionless in mid air above one of my chilli plants and thought how cool a photo it would make. After getting my camera and finding it still there I tried many shots of &#8216;the hover&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately I did not get a good &#8216;in-flight&#8217; shot but after it settled I got this one.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Day 976, Yellow-shouldered Stout Hover Fly&#8217;, 1\/500s f\/8 ISO800 100mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well at least I think it&#8217;s Simosyrphus grandicornis, but then it could be Ischiodon scutellaris. Not being an entomologist the above are my best guesses but I can confidently say it&#8217;s a Common Hover Fly. I noticed this little guy hovering motionless in mid air above one of my chilli plants and thought how cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}