{"id":4146,"date":"2024-10-09T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2024-10-09T09:32:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T09:32:50","slug":"hornet-mimic-hoverfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=4146","title":{"rendered":"Hornet mimic hoverfly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the past two years we have been noticing a new visitor to the area &#8211; the rather splendid hornet mimic hoverfly (Volucella zonaria). This is the UK&#8217;s largest hoverfly at almost 2cm long, and, as its name suggests, it is an excellent mimic of the hornet, but unlike the hornett is harmless to humans. Only a very rare visitor to the country up to the 1940s, it has become more common in Southern England in recent years, and is still spreading northwards, perhaps as a result of climate change. It is particularly prevalent in urban areas. The adults are migratory and the larvae live inside wasps&#8217; nests. WNS member Alan Crawford found this one in his Wrenthorpe garden and previously, they have previously been seen in Ryhill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HMIMIC001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HMIMIC001.jpg 900w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HMIMIC001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/HMIMIC001-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two years we have been noticing a new visitor to the area &#8211; the rather splendid hornet mimic hoverfly (Volucella zonaria). This is the UK&#8217;s largest hoverfly at almost 2cm long, and, as its name suggests, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=4146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[492,493,57],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}