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I just found a fly (?) on a June berry tree. The tree is young and not
more than 4 years old so has not bloomed yet.
The size is 3/16 to 1/4 inch long. The flies are stuck to the leaf with
their sucking parts so are not moving around. The front end of the fly
(head and thorax) look like a small black fly but the abdomen is white
with three circular black lines. The abdomen is kind of rounded -
looking like a bee at first sight. There are no hair and it looks to me
like only one set of clear wings. I can't magnify it enough to tell
what kind of veining there is in the wings.
Actually it looks like a fly crawling out of its pupa stage but if that
is the case how did it get four feet off the ground? Or did it pupate
there for the winter?
Does anyone have an identification off the top of their head? I have
looked in 3 Insect books and on the Yard and Garden web site for
identification but nothing looks like. This tree is in the center of my
apple trees and hopefully we will be having a nice size crop for the
first time since planting. I wouldn't want to get bugs in those trees.
Being that it is a sucking insect, should I spray to get rid of them.
Right now there can't be more than 50 insects.
Grace, Morrison
