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Flies with Dr Erica McAlister

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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What Are Flies?

i started by asking her, what is a fly? Agains, the flieshat. Theyre some of the most critically important animals on our planet. When it comes to ecological roles, they are really important. Most of the ones that we associate with are the decomposers. But then you've also got the polinates who get pollen all over themselves. Half the families have polinates within them. And would you say that pollinating flies are more efficient at polinating than polinating bees and wasps? If you got some truly er species specific ones, they're absolutely critical. We try and lump everything together by saying, you know, this bee is great, but sometimes that

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