{"id":4781,"date":"2026-05-26T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=4781"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:47:29","slug":"the-fungus-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2026\/05\/26\/the-fungus-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fungus Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographed in the past on fungi in the bush, it was interesting to see several on clumps of fungi on decaying tree roots in the garden. Males guard their chosen fungus caps and when joined by a female they move under the cap where they mate and the female lays her eggs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix38\/fungi.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"602\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Male Tapeigaster annulipes on guard, click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix38\/fungusfly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix38\/fungusflyb.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"487\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographed in the past on fungi in the bush, it was interesting to see several on clumps of fungi on decaying tree roots in the garden. Males guard their chosen fungus caps and when joined by a female they move under the cap where they mate and the female lays her eggs. Male Tapeigaster annulipes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2026\/05\/26\/the-fungus-fly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fungus Fly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4787,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4781\/revisions\/4787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}