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How to Tell Fungus Gnats and Shore Flies Apart
06.06.2023 - 18:20 / gardenerspath.com / Sylvia Dekker
How to Tell Fungus Gnats and Shore Flies ApartLittle black insects are hanging around your plants, looking suspicious. You do a quick search online and immediately two results pop up: fungus gnats or shore flies. But which one are you dealing with?
Both are often found hovering around plants. Both like moist conditions. And both are nuisance flies that can become pests by transmitting disease and reducing the aesthetic quality of your plants.
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There are some key differences between these two insects, and we’ve laid out all of the details below, including some straightforward ways you can tell them apart.
Identification and BiologyBradysia spp, or fungus gnats, are dark brown or black, 1/16- to 1/8-inch-long mosquito-like insects with long, thread-like antennae, dangly legs, and clear wings.
The adults are weak fliers, and you’ll often find them resting on the edges of pots, on plant leaves, or on the soil surface.
The larvae are slender, whitish, translucent maggots that reach a quarter of an inch long when fully grown. Their digestive system is often visible, and the maggots have a distinctive, shiny black head capsule.
Shore flies, the most common species found being Scatella stagnalis, are housefly-shaped, and an eighth of an inch long, with dark wings that have five light spots.
They have small legs, short, bristle-like antennae, and reddish eyes. They are strong fliers, and buzz around with more purpose than the gnats do.
Their larvae are opaque cream to tannish brown rice-grain-like maggots that appear headless, lacking the black head capsule fungus gnat maggots have.
The difference in their appearance is not
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