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Daisies are one of the flowers growing in our yard that came with the house. They’ve been eagerly growing in numbers over the last four years around the yard, but I don’t much mind as the syrphid flies seem to really like the flowers. Today I spent some time watching all the insects visiting the flat, yellow composite flowers. There were a number of different syrphid, or hover flies, of many sizes. Shiny green flies also regularly visited as did a few carpet beetles, honey bees and one Blood-red Lady Beetle. One insect patrolled the top layer of flowers, chasing off anything it came across, but whether it was a Honey Bee or syrphid fly, I couldn’t say.
