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    Flying Tigers

    Aug 14, 2019 2 minutes

    It has been a bumper year for greenfly. But I am pretty relaxed about it. I don’t spray, I just leave the job to the hoverflies. In late summer I love to watch them feeding on the Michaelmas daisies, the whole patch like a microscopic city airport, with wings flashing in the sunshine, as if hundreds of helicopters from

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