Tachinid flies

ENEMIES. Enemies include tits, tachinid flies and braconid wasps. Tits, in particular, can be very effective enemies in the spring. 

They may look like pesky houseflies, but don t use the swatter Tachinid flies lay eggs on many types of caterpillar pests, and the tachinid larvoe feed on and kill the caterpillars. 

How fO Attract Adult flies feed on the nectar of flowers of dill, parsley, sweet clover, and other herbs, so allow weeds to flower throughout the garden don t destroy caterpillars with white eggs stuck to their backs— these will develop into more tachinid flies. 

Horse chestnut. See Aesculus Horsetail spray, 475-76 Horticultural oils, 359,463,464,478-79 Hosta, 118-19 Host resistance, 414-15 Hot dusts, 476 House centipedes, 280 Houseflies, tachinid flies distinguished from, 261... 

Tachinids are similar to house flies, but they are highly adapted insect parasites. The adult flies are pollinators. The eggs are laid on the body of the pest. The caterpillars quickly bore into tbe body of the host animal. Some of the eggs are ingested in feeding. 

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