{"id":529,"date":"2009-11-06T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T15:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2009-11-06T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T15:55:42","slug":"census-new-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Census: New Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our on the land with visitors yesterday, I spotted a new fly (new to me):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-530\" title=\"lg-resize_unk-fly-heath-aster062\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lg-resize_unk-fly-heath-aster062.jpg\" alt=\"lg-resize_unk-fly-heath-aster062\" width=\"286\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lg-resize_unk-fly-heath-aster062.jpg 286w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lg-resize_unk-fly-heath-aster062-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That spotted abdomen was very obvious with the naked eye.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s a similar pattern to a spotted jumping spider we have (also white spots on black) and until I saw it fly I was thinking\u00a0 &#8220;There&#8217;s another <em>P. audax<\/em>, never saw one on heath aster before.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 The &#8220;face&#8221; and antennae are the same golden color as the wings.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Shipped that image off to <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/6\/bgimage\">BugGuide.net<\/a> this morning\u00a0 for ID, and dug into their Diptera (fly) section, where I found a very similar fly listed in the genus <em>Ptilodexia. <\/em>Whatever it is, it&#8217;s new to me, and thus to the land, and will be listed&#8211;I hope to hear back in a few days that it is (or isn&#8217;t) a <em>Ptilodexia<\/em> so I can put it on the land list.<\/p>\n<p>Finding new stuff comes under the heading of Census as one of the seven required activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our on the land with visitors yesterday, I spotted a new fly (new to me): That spotted abdomen was very obvious with the naked eye.\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s a similar pattern to a spotted jumping spider we have (also white spots on black) and until I saw it fly I was thinking\u00a0 &#8220;There&#8217;s another P. audax, never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21,4],"tags":[71,22,38,41,23,70,30],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-photography","category-wildlife","tag-activities","tag-census","tag-insect","tag-new-species","tag-observation","tag-photography","tag-wildlife-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}