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Sweet alyssum, yarrow, cosmos, nepeta, asters, coreopsis and many other plants with small, clustered centers attract pollinators and beneficial insects, including lady beetles, lacewings, syrphid flies and parasitic wasps.
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Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
The flowers produce tiny nectaries sized just right to draw in syrphid flies, ladybeetles, and parasitoid wasps, all of which feed on aphids.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2025
Flower flies, also known as syrphid flies, are one group using such mimicry.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2023
The insect to me looks like a syrphid fly larvae that is eating aphids.
—oregonlive, 11 June 2022
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Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
The flowers produce tiny nectaries sized just right to draw in syrphid flies, ladybeetles, and parasitoid wasps, all of which feed on aphids.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2025
Flower flies, also known as syrphid flies, are one group using such mimicry.
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2023
The insect to me looks like a syrphid fly larvae that is eating aphids.
—oregonlive, 11 June 2022
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“Syrphid fly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syrphid%20fly. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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