Cluster Flies

Pollenia rudis

Appearance

6–10mm in length
Dark grey–olive thorax clothed with crinkled golden–brown hairs.
Wings overlap when at rest. Sluggish in flight.

Lifecycle

Eggs laid in soil.
Larva develop in earthworms.

Habits

Often found in large numbers in roof voids in Autumn where they over–winter.

Cluster Flies Pest Control News

Autumn Pest Invasion
About this time of year, people begin to pay more attention to wasps, which are more prone to attack after the Summer Bank Holiday. Ants continue to build nests in the lawn, mosquitoes and moths circling the front porch light dart inside when the doo...

Protecting Our Crops
People and livestock are not the only ones interested in eating the crops farmers grow. We compete with insects, birds and other organisms that find our food as delectable as we do. But thanks to modern agricultural science and implementation of comp...

IPM In The Garden
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an environmentally sensitive approach to controlling pests that does not rely totally on pesticides. IPM depends on frequent monitoring of plants and the accurate diagnosis of the pests so that control strategies a...

Try Safer Pest Control
Summer's here, and the weekends for many involve gardening tools and green thumbs. But this summer, consider greening your garden in more ways than one. When trying to eliminate pests in your garden and around your home, use product alternatives that...

The Wine-Makers Battle
So you've got the wine bug. It's springtime in the Devonshire wine-makers domain. You itch to visit the vineyards. But do you see the cutworms gnawing at the buds? Dagger nematodes injecting viruses into roots? Fruit flies? Parasitic wasps? A malicio...

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