{"id":386,"date":"2015-03-01T13:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T19:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2015-05-05T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T19:29:44","slug":"red-tailed-flesh-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Flesh Fly <em>(Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_387\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/red-tailed-flesh-fly_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-387\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-387\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/red-tailed-flesh-fly_01-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"red-tailed flesh fly\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/red-tailed-flesh-fly_01-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/red-tailed-flesh-fly_01-624x499.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/red-tailed-flesh-fly_01.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bill Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are 3 subfamilies, 108 genera, and about 2,500 species of flesh flies (Sarcophagidae). These flies deposit already hatched larvae on carrion, dung, or animal wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The red-tailed flesh fly <em>(Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis)<\/em> is often the first or one of the first insects to visit a corpse. This makes them useful in determining the amount of time that has elapsed since a person has died.<\/p>\n<p>This species is identified by three gray stripes on the thorax; gray and black checkerboard pattern on the abdomen; reddish-brown external genitalia at the tip of the abdomen of the male; 4 bristles on the notopleuron (a region on the thorax); a long bristle on the upper side of the antenna that is feathery at the base; well developed lobes at the base of the wing; and an R5 wing cell that is closed or narrowed at the end.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/red-tailed_flesh_fly.html\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/red-tailed_flesh_fly.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/red-tailed_flesh_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=386\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 3 subfamilies, 108 genera, and about 2,500 species of flesh flies (Sarcophagidae). These flies deposit already hatched larvae on carrion, dung, or animal wounds. The red-tailed flesh fly (Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis) is often the first or one of the first insects to visit a corpse. This makes them useful in determining the amount of [&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":[152,153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}