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mark smyth

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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2009, 01:25:20 PM »
Hans is was eating one of your bulbs. With big bulbs like Amaryllis the damage is not obvious like when they eat a snowdrop bulb. What will happen, I think, is a plant will not flower next year. Every time I find a maggot it is in the middle of the bulb
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2009, 01:26:09 PM »
Two new photos of a Lesser Narcissus fly
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2009, 08:25:37 PM »
"look matey, I know a dead Lesser Narcissus Fly when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now" ;D
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2009, 08:32:18 PM »
I can't think of it as "sad news" that the damn thing diesd ???
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2009, 08:47:49 PM »
no food for a week and stuck in a fridge .. and next year everyone will know what a lesser fly looks like when summer comes round again
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #20 on: December 07, 2009, 12:17:58 PM »
"look matey, I know a dead Lesser Narcissus Fly when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now" ;D

Mmmmmm, I'm a bit disappointed with some of you lot I did expect at least the next line :P
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2009, 12:29:10 PM »
Sorry, David.........

....No no he's not dead, he's....... he's restin'! Remarkable fly, the Lesser narcissus, ain't it , eh? Beautiful plumage!
« Last Edit: December 07, 2009, 12:35:03 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2009, 12:30:41 PM »
You got it Maggi, you've restored my faith ;D
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2009, 12:42:09 PM »
Somehow, this makes me think of parrots ??  ??? ::) ;D
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2009, 01:41:16 PM »
Sorry, David.........    ....No no he's not dead, he's....... he's restin'! Remarkable fly, the Lesser narcissus, ain't it , eh? Beautiful plumage!   


Oh, that's got to be a cue for a video ...  (for all those who don't know what this is all about, and for all those who do, but can't resist!)
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #25 on: December 07, 2009, 05:16:10 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D
David Nicholson
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Re: Lesser Narcissus fly
« Reply #26 on: December 07, 2009, 08:50:53 PM »
Thanks Diane. I did see it years ago but had clean forgotten it. ;D ;D
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

 


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