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jamlover Delhi, IA Aug 29, 2006

Didn't seem to be eating. Fly?? Wasp?? Bee??

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pepsidrinker La Salle, MI(Zone 5b) Aug 29, 2006

It looks like the pest that was around my seedlings this summer and it laid eggs inside the leaves and they turned into little worms in the leaves. http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2471084
I think this is what caused it.
leaf miner flies
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/O&T/flowers/note09/note09.html

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Night_Bloom Griffin, GA(Zone 8a) Aug 29, 2006

I think that's a good guy. It looks like a long-legged fly (Dolichopodidae) to me which is a fly that is a predator on aphids and other small insects. Both the larvae and adults are predators. Here's a link... http://bugguide.net/node/view/53549 .

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jamlover Delhi, IA Aug 30, 2006

Night_Bloom and cegoins

Thank you for your responses. Looking at both images I tend to believe it's the long legged fly. Coloring is very similiar. I know so little about insects that I can't even attempt to identify, but I am starting a group of insect photos with descriptions.

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