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Dipterology (FLIES) with Bryan Lessard

Ologies with Alie Ward

Those Midge Flies Are the Most Important Polinades of the Plants

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We've kind of perpetuated this negative image of flies, when actually they're the hearors of our nature. The keke plant is polinaded by these tiny, little midge flies from the family serapagernde. And if we didn't have them, the most important polinades of these plants, we wouldn't have chocolate. There probably is a jeff golben fly somewhere else. Ere themada doesn't vomit on fers or moth t maybe he's out there polinading flowers or compusting our garden wo er there.

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