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	<title>Writing Every Day &#187; syrphid fly</title>
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		<title>Killer Maggots</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/killer-maggots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the syrphid fly that was laying eggs the other day? Well, they hatched. And the larvae are just that: larval. I mean ladybug larva are pretty cool looking. Even caterpillars can be cute.
But this? This is a soulless, horrible maggot.
On the bright side, they suck the juice out of aphids. They&#8217;re not so easy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=4961&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hover flies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep finding more syrphid flies. These last few days, I&#8217;m seeing a lot of yet another kind. Some mornings at least half a dozen of them are checking out the sweet alyssum. They hover and zip aside and hover and zip back and hover and come for a landing on the flowers. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=4907&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syrphid flies</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/syrphid-flies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today felt almost summery, so here&#8217;s some more bugs from earlier in the summer. Syrphid flies this time.  I admire how much they look like bees until you get close enough to spot those big fly eyes. Sometimes I don&#8217;t even realize what I saw until I upload the pictures from the camera, they&#8217;re so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=3981&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not a bee, but an amazing simulacrum!</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/not-a-bee-but-an-amazing-simulacrum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/?p=1419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a ton of native asters that are hard to distinguish, as I discovered after spending easily a confused hour pondering my wildflower book. I finally decided that it&#8217;s Heart-Leaved Aster overflowing in my back yard with huge plumes of pale lavender-to-white flowers feeding lots of happy bees.
Except one of them is a syrphid fly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=1419&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goldenrod</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/goldenrod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coneflowers have been feeding bees for weeks now. So have the veronica, the wood sorrel, the St. John&#8217;s wort, and the bladder campion. It&#8217;s starting to get boring, all that growing and flowering and growing and flowering. Even the squash blossoms are getting familar. So it&#8217;s nice to see goldenrod join the crowd, complete [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=774&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Creeper</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/virginia-creeper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/?p=432</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Virginia creeper is one of those plants you have to keep an eye on and hack back when it goes too far. It grows so robustly because it&#8217;s a native plant, and also because it&#8217;s a native, the bees love it so much that you can hear the vines buzzing.

There&#8217;s honeybees this year and bumblebees [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=432&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tricky Bugs</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/tricky-bugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was so sure this was a syrphid fly, but bugGuide has set me straight: it&#8217;s a Narcissus Bulb Fly Merodon equestris. At least it&#8217;s in the syrphid family.
And I do have actual syrphid flies, but they&#8217;re much smaller than Mr. Bumblebee Fakeout Merodon.


These two are Syrphid flies in genus Sphaerophoria.
These handsome fellows are a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=303&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hunt For Little Bees</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/the-hunt-for-little-bees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been endlessly fascinated by all the little bugs in my yard, flitting about on their mysterious bug business. Now that I can get close-up pictures of them I feel like a new window has opened upon their world. That&#8217;s how I discovered how wrong I was about which weed they would like. What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=271&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syrphid fly?</title>
		<link>http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/syrphid-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 14:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pam Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Here&#8217;s some more flowers the bees are visiting. Not to mention another example of why the violets get free rein in my yard: they look nice next to the azaleas.
Yesterday I thought I saw a bumblebee, but its buzz had that whiny fly quality. Probably a syrphid fly; they look a lot like bees [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writingeveryday.wordpress.com&blog=2980432&post=236&subd=writingeveryday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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