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Offline Snoopy

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Fruit flies like a banana
« on: June 08, 2009, 05:28:11 PM »
SWWLTBO is in the habit of buying these "fresh and still growing" salad leaves and herbs in pots with which she adorns the kitchen window ledges. They invariably die before she remembers to use them. The latest batch, purchased last week, have given rise to squadrons of small black flies, slightly larger than your average fruit fly but in all other ways very similar. Looking at the label I see that the culprit seems to be parsley from Spain. I wonder what dread insect she has unwittingly let loose on North Wales?
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2009, 05:47:55 PM »
Any chance of a following wind and transporting them over to the Wirral?   whistle:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2009, 05:50:45 PM »
He has more than enough with the hatch that happens every time the tide goes out and the sun shines.  lol:

You can get bitten to death by midges etc over there on a bad day.
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2009, 05:51:48 PM »
Fungus gnats  rubschin:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2009, 05:54:17 PM »
Nah ~ he lives on the edge of a hoooooooge salt marsh.
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2009, 05:58:48 PM »
Ahhh the Cestrian salt flats  rubschin:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #6 on: June 08, 2009, 09:57:52 PM »
Quote from: Pastis on June 08, 2009, 05:58:48 PM
Ahhh the Cestrian salt flats  rubschin:

Is that accomodation for retired sailors?
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2009, 06:19:34 AM »
Which fruit?
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2009, 07:23:04 AM »
Pretend ignorance is neither funny nor clever  evil:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2009, 07:41:51 AM »

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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2009, 07:50:57 AM »
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2009, 09:15:48 AM »
Our mosquitoes are famously vicious and can bite even through jeans. All the local chemists carry vast stocks of anti-histamines  evil:

http://www.ellesmereport-neston.gov.uk/environment/environmentalservices/mosquito.htm

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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2009, 03:57:12 PM »
Are they swine 'flu carriers?  rubschin:
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2009, 04:05:44 PM »
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Re: Fruit flies like a banana
« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2009, 04:10:41 PM »
I meant the mozzies not the chemists, although...  rubschin:
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