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Flower flies, also known as syrphid flies, are one group using such mimicry.
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Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2023
This pest has insufficient enemies in the garden, although minute pirate bugs and the larvae of the lacewing and syrphid fly are predators.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
The insect to me looks like a syrphid fly larvae that is eating aphids.
—oregonlive, 11 June 2022
Minute pirate bugs and the larvae of the lacewing and syrphid fly do attack them, but in our gardens right now, chilli thrips are pests without sufficient enemies.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
Also look for evidence of natural enemies, such as lady beetles, lacewings and syrphid fly larvae.
—Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 22 Dec. 2017
Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2023
This pest has insufficient enemies in the garden, although minute pirate bugs and the larvae of the lacewing and syrphid fly are predators.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022
The insect to me looks like a syrphid fly larvae that is eating aphids.
—oregonlive, 11 June 2022
Minute pirate bugs and the larvae of the lacewing and syrphid fly do attack them, but in our gardens right now, chilli thrips are pests without sufficient enemies.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
Also look for evidence of natural enemies, such as lady beetles, lacewings and syrphid fly larvae.
—Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 22 Dec. 2017
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