{"id":1970,"date":"2012-04-11T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2012-04-11T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T18:07:09","slug":"what-once-was-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/11\/what-once-was-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"What once was lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/11\/what-once-was-lost\/urophora-affinis\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1971\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1971\" title=\"Urophora affinis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Urophora-affinis20110627.jpg\" alt=\"Urophora affinis Tephritidae Fruit Fly\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Urophora-affinis20110627.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Urophora-affinis20110627-500x333.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Urophora-affinis20110627-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Urophora affinis<\/em>, a fruit fly in the family Tephritidae,\u00a0was introduced to Ontario in the 1970&#8217;s as a biological control agent for invasive European knapweeds. When the researchers went back to check on the population a few years later, they were unable to find the species again, and concluded that the population failed to become established (at least in Ontario, a similar introduction in British Columbia did survive).<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2008 when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/the-staphylinidae-of-eastern-canada-%E2%80%93-cjai-vol-12\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Brunke<\/a>\u00a0(a beetle specialist, ironically) collected a specimen in his parent&#8217;s backyard, nearly 200 kilometers away from the original introduction site! Clearly <em>Urophora affinis<\/em>\u00a0had not only survived, but had even managed to expand it&#8217;s range across a large portion of central Ontario, a story which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biology.ualberta.ca\/bsc\/ejournal\/jmhn_15\/teph234.htm\" target=\"_blank\">I reported in my paper on Ontario Tephritidae last spring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later on in the summer, I accompanied Adam and Steve Paiero (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/i-dont-swim-in-south-american-rivers\/\" target=\"_blank\">of tongue parasite fame<\/a>) out to Northumberland County (much closer to the original introduction site) where they were conducting a survey, and happened to find a thriving population of <em>Urophoa affinis<\/em>\u00a0in a nice sunny clearing. Nearly every composite flower had an individual or two on top feeding and\/or mating, and we collected a long series to place in the University of Guelph Insect Collection. I also walked away with a number of nice photos documenting the species in a new location.<\/p>\n<p>It just goes to show that a species can find a way to survive and prosper, even if they go unnoticed by us!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: none;\">sciseekclaimtoken-4f850e14c19e1<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Urophora affinis, a fruit fly in the family Tephritidae,\u00a0was introduced to Ontario in the 1970&#8217;s as a biological control agent for invasive European knapweeds. When the researchers went back to check on the population a few years later, they were unable to find the species again, and concluded that the population failed to become <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/11\/what-once-was-lost\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,23,261],"tags":[598,116,612,46],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-entomology","category-insects","category-natural-history","tag-diptera","tag-field-work","tag-natural-history","tag-tephritidae","category-75-id","category-4-id","category-23-id","category-261-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}