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Re: Burrowing Fly

In a message dated 5/15/98 5:38:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
mikecook@pipeline.com writes:

<< When I went to see what it was doing, I
 discovered two holes of identical appearance, one containing the fly.  I
 assume it was laying eggs, so I stomped it.  Now I have to wait for the
 eggs to hatch, unless there is something I can do to kill them.  >>

Why do you feel you must kill them all?  There are many insects and other
little critters that live around our homes and gardens that are either neutral
or even beneficial.  If it flies and lays eggs near plants, it is not
automatically harmful.  Perhaps you might wait to see what happens?

I had some weird little green wormy looking things with large mouths on the
young leaves of my roses when I first moved here.  I was initially horrified
and wondered what damage they were doing.  But there were no holes in the
leaves or any other obviously negative things happening,  and there also were
no aphids on the branches they were on,  tho there were many aphids elsewhere.
I have concluded they are some type of larvae that feed on plump little
aphids,  and now I welcome them as much as lady bugs.

Janet.
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