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Flies with Dr Erica McAlister

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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How to Reduce Insects in Your Garden

Gardeners can increase numbers of flies, generally in their gardens. So what can gardeners do to increase number of flies? I want more local plants. Native plants have been growing alongside these insects for the last 12 thousand years and we need to help them. Have a pond because that's where they have aquatic lavae. In er plant pots, old plant pots, clay pots, loads of little insects hide around that compost. All their love for compost, don't they? As there's this brilliant group of flies called sicodes ther almages. A love an almad. They look like little, furry caped super heros who walk around panicking all the time

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