Fly likes hanging on my Encyclia buds often at night.

[Davey]

Hi everyone,
I was just curious about having flies that like to regularly sit for long periods of time on orchid buds. I see this fly regularly landing on my Encyclia Cindy’s bud at night. I tried to take a picture. He’ll sit on the same bud for a long time. Just wondering how it will effect the development of the C buds, if it’s a good thing or not.

[DirtyCoconuts]

i get tons of bugs and flies all over the spikes- i think they like the honeydew and (for fragrant plants) they like the smell

[Davey]

It’s fun to see him almost every night then. Glad he’s enjoying the garden😁

[DirtyCoconuts]

Amen. Right now I have cool wasp that lives on a brassida spike. I think he’s eating the ants!

---------- Post added at 02:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:02 PM ----------

I imagine I lose 5-10% of flower buds (not spikes, but one of 20 total flowers) to bugs or some other force of nature. I prefer to have the bugs and animals than the extra flowers

[Davey]

I love the fun you bring to the forum DC. Here’s a picture of a couple of the blooms that just opened.

[Davey]

Didn’t seem to show up well above. I guess that must be why you use Flickr