A small pest hovers lazily before alighting on the wall in a kitchen environment. What could it be? As difficult as fly identification is, nearly anyone who has worked in pest management would guess that this is a fly in the family Drosophilidae, known more commonly as vinegar or small fruit flies. These flies are […]
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