Black and Yellow Stripey flying Insects
04 August 2004, 08:00 PM
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Black and Yellow Stripey flying Insects
Got hundreds of them in my garden, mainly on one bush that is flowering. Any idea what they are and how to get rid of them?! Definately not wasps or bees. They are quite small and I don't think they sting!! They are driving me mad!! 
04 August 2004, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by red_dog104
Got hundreds of them in my garden, mainly on one bush that is flowering. Any idea what they are and how to get rid of them?! Definately not wasps or bees. They are quite small and I don't think they sting!! They are driving me mad!!
04 August 2004, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Andy Hobson
According to the paper today they're hover flies and there's been a population boom due to the warm weather. They don't sting and don't do that irritating side-to-side hovering in your face thing that wasps do !
Any idea how to get rid of the irritating little sods?!
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04 August 2004, 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by red_dog104
Thank you! And my last post was aimed at Dazza Any idea how to get rid of the irritating little sods?!
Any idea how to get rid of the irritating little sods?!im not that bad im i
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Originally Posted by Jason Crozier
They are indeed Hover Flies ...
Family Syrphidae
Order Diptera
Completely harmless
Family Syrphidae
Order Diptera
Completely harmless
04 August 2004, 09:03 PM
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The young stages (larvae) of many hover-flies feed mainly on aphids, and together with ladybirds are among our chief allies in controlling injurious garden and crop pests . . . . . .
Adults are strong day-time flyers capable of hovering. They frequently visit flowers to feed on pollen and nectar. Larval stages are active predators of aphids and other small, plant-sucking insects. Usually one generation a year. These are beneficial insects, useful as pollinators in the adult stage and as natural enemies of plant pests in the larval stages.
The adult flies spend much of their life on flowers, feeding on pollen and nectar, and thus play an important role in the pollination of many wild and cultivated plants. Aphid-eating hover-fly larvae are rather flattened, legless and maggot-like. Most are greenish or brownish in colour and well camouflaged, and largely go unnoticed as they crawl over foliage in search of their aphid prey.
So there you go. Although annoying in swarms it's best to leave them to do there work.They only have a short life span in fly form anyway so won't be around for long.
Mark (Formerly at Fisons - Levington.Where the compost was invented
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Adults are strong day-time flyers capable of hovering. They frequently visit flowers to feed on pollen and nectar. Larval stages are active predators of aphids and other small, plant-sucking insects. Usually one generation a year. These are beneficial insects, useful as pollinators in the adult stage and as natural enemies of plant pests in the larval stages.
The adult flies spend much of their life on flowers, feeding on pollen and nectar, and thus play an important role in the pollination of many wild and cultivated plants. Aphid-eating hover-fly larvae are rather flattened, legless and maggot-like. Most are greenish or brownish in colour and well camouflaged, and largely go unnoticed as they crawl over foliage in search of their aphid prey.
So there you go. Although annoying in swarms it's best to leave them to do there work.They only have a short life span in fly form anyway so won't be around for long.
Mark (Formerly at Fisons - Levington.Where the compost was invented
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04 August 2004, 09:33 PM
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Thank you! I had a bit of a psycho b*tch frenzy a while ago and butchered the bush! 
Hopefully there won't be so many tomorrow. Wouldn't have been so bad but said bush is pretty near the back door and they kept coming into the house!
Hopefully there won't be so many tomorrow. Wouldn't have been so bad but said bush is pretty near the back door and they kept coming into the house!
04 August 2004, 10:19 PM
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I discovered at the weekend that not only are they attracted to water, but also to Wax Wizard wax 
Washed the car -- dozens of the buggers hanging around the wet bits. Dried off, thinking they'd go then, but there was dozens of the buggers hovering over the bonnet when it was covered in wax
Washed the car -- dozens of the buggers hanging around the wet bits. Dried off, thinking they'd go then, but there was dozens of the buggers hovering over the bonnet when it was covered in wax
05 August 2004, 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Richard Askew
Can of WD40 and a clipper lighter should slow them down a tad
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