they sure do look like typical house flies.





"Danny Kewl" wrote in message
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Thanks for the responses so far. Are you sure these are houseflies? I
thought they looked like houseflies at first too, but they seem a bit
smaller, and I was wondering what houseflies were doing on flowers instead
of manure, so I thought it had to be something else. If it's houseflies,
I'm throwing those flowers out, hard to grasp that dirty, nasty, filthy
houseflies would be feeding on flowers.


"DK1000" wrote in message
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...lowerFlies.jpg

Hi,

I have garlic chives growing in my garden in Cleveland, Ohio. Those
flowers taste so good. I went out to pick some to eat yesterday, and I
seen what looked like small flies or bees all over the flowers, and they
fly away when you get too close. I took a picture, link above (about 1
MB). What are these, and do these insects being on the flowers ruin the
edibility of the flowers? I eat these flowers raw, and I picked some
anyways, and brought them in and washed them but didn't eat any yet,
until I know they are not tainted by the bugs. I want to try to freeze
some of the flowers so I can use them later. Thanks much.