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Garden is Infested with St Marks Fly

  • 03-05-2012 12:19pm
    #1
    BargainHunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭


    Right now my wildlife garden is full of St Marks Flys hovering in the air. They are pretty disgusting looking insects. Anyone else have these things?

    220px-Bibio_marci02.jpg


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  • #2
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Tis the season - they are a usefull food source though for freshly arrived and hungry migrants like various warblers, hirundianes etc.;)


  • #3
    pipsdad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭pipsdad


    Ahh the Hawthorn fly, favourite food of the trout and also the swallows etc love to mop them up. The way they fly (the fly not the swallows) with the font legs down make them look kind of funny right enough.


  • #4
    wicklowdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭wicklowdub


    BargainHunter wrote: »
    Right now my wildlife garden is full of St Marks Flys hovering in the air. They are pretty disgusting looking insects. Anyone else have these things?

    220px-Bibio_marci02.jpg

    By any chance are you in the Nth Kerry area? apparently there is a fly infestation problem
    here


  • #5
    BargainHunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭BargainHunter


    wicklowdub wrote: »
    By any chance are you in the Nth Kerry area? apparently there is a fly infestation problem
    here
    Im in Kildare, not Kerry.

    Anyway, all the St Marks flys are gone now. Where did they all go? I havent noticed any swallows in the area.


  • #6
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    they only live for about a week (afaik). I think they'e quite cute with their dangly little legs :)


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  • #7
    torturedsoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭torturedsoul


    Hi All,

    Is this a St Marks Fly? All over my house at the moment

    fly.jpg

    if anyone recognizes it I be so appreciative.


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    torturedsoul wrote: »
    Hi All,

    Is this a St Marks Fly? All over my house at the moment

    fly.jpg

    if anyone recognizes it I be so appreciative.

    Sorry bit I can't make out enough detail from the photo bit definitely not a St Mark's Fly. Looks wrong and much too late in the year.


  • #9
    torturedsoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭torturedsoul


    Thanks for the reply Srameen,

    There is a tree next to the house that seems to be completely infested by these little buggers too. Leave on the tree are full of black patches and covered in Ivy too. Not sure if its connected but its only this tree they are on and not others also close by.

    So the cold snap and bad weather came the last few days and they disappeared, then we had one really nice hot day and sure enough they came back:-(

    I think they are a beetle type thing rather then a fly, not sure if all insects with wings are classed flies or not


  • #10
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Looks more like a beetle but there's not much detail


  • #11
    petertgtt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭petertgtt


    wicklowdub wrote: »
    By any chance are you in the Nth Kerry area? apparently there is a fly infestation problem
    here[/URL]

    funny you mention Nth Kerry, 25 yrs ago passing through Castleisland the place was covered, literally black, with these flys, mosly dead on the road, pavements , inside shop windows. We will never forget it , unbelievable.


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