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Fruit Fly

Procecidochares atra

Photo by Tom15
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Field Notes

Habitat:

This fly develops in galls on glodenrod (solidago sp.). It has 2 generations a year, with the spring generation developing in large stem galls at the base of the host plant and each gall contains several larvae. The summer generation develops in bud galls with a single larva.

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