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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Disguised fly
  • Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:41:08 -0600

Do we have any entomologists in the group?

In September, my patch of Fall bearing red raspberries is visited by droves of a fly that resembles a Yellow Jacket. It is obviously a fly by the wing structure and it is about twice as large as a House Fly. It competes with Yellow Jackets in feeding on ripe fruits. Unlike Yellow Jackets, it doesn't sting. It is a pest by its very presence in the berry patch because, before I reach to pick a berry, I have to look to be sure I won't be grabbing hold of a Yellow Jacket. In other words, it is a pest because it slows the pick.
Do any of you have this fly? What is it? Is there a way to get rid of it? Obviously, I can't spray because I'd contaminate the fruit.

Jim Fruth
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Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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