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1 bug a week is not a problem. Returning the plants is not the end, either. IF, and it's a good probability, the larvae came in on those plants due to the aphids which are now killing the plants, the larvae of the flies are still inside and not likely to leave with the plants - at least not initially.
You have a problem but the problem is not the flies, it is the aphids!
OP back. A bug & an odd one I've never seen before at that, a week is a problem when I've never even had ants, a spider, or anything else AT ALL the whole 3 yrs I've lived in my apt, much less this odd insect...I guess this complex keeps up with their good pest control! (Now I've had a gnat a couple of times, but that's when I've had bananas in the kitchen & they were getting old.)
I already returned 2 of the houseplants this morning (both were starting to die anyway) & got my $60 back!
Now if there's another one of these hoverflies (or whatever it is) next week again, then it's obviously something else, in which I'd want to maybe soon ask my leasing office about it.
Last edited by Forever Blue; 09-17-2015 at 11:48 AM..
OP back. WTH...I got 4-5 more of these insects since my last post & saw 3 in one night tonight & the night's not over yet! I think this plant that I got & had returned must have had some insect eggs on the leaves or soil, etc. & somehow dropped onto my carpeting in which they hatched or something?!
Last edited by Forever Blue; 09-27-2015 at 08:29 PM..
OP, these types of flies mimic bees and wasps in their looks for self-protection.......... but they don't have stingers. They drink nectar from flowers, and in doing that, pick up pollen from one flower and pollinate the other flowers. They don't even go after rotten meat like some of the more common flies that we are used to seeing. They could be called "flower flies."
Killed another one tonight, so that must make it about 10 by now ALL in my apt living room when I never had bugs before in the whole 3 yrs & 2 mos I've lived here. I sure wish I knew how they got in here.
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