{"id":231,"date":"2014-07-29T11:35:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:59:16","slug":"hunchback-bee-fly-lepidophora-lutea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Hunchback bee fly <em>(Lepidophora lutea)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_232\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hunchback_bee_fly_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-232\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hunchback_bee_fly_01-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"hunchback bee fly\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hunchback_bee_fly_01-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hunchback_bee_fly_01-624x500.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hunchback_bee_fly_01.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bill Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The hunchback bee fly <em>(Lepidophora lutea)<\/em> is a medium-sized bee fly with a distinctly hunch-backed appearance. It is fairly common and widespread in eastern North America. It\u2019s unusual shape mimics the robber fly. The larvae are kleptoparasitic, eating the collected food in the nests of solitary wasps, and possibly also parasitic, eating the larvae in the host\u2019s nest.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/hunchback_bee_fly.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/hunchback_bee_fly.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/hunchback_bee_fly.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=231\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hunchback bee fly (Lepidophora lutea) is a medium-sized bee fly with a distinctly hunch-backed appearance. It is fairly common and widespread in eastern North America. It\u2019s unusual shape mimics the robber fly. The larvae are kleptoparasitic, eating the collected food in the nests of solitary wasps, and possibly also parasitic, eating the larvae in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}