Question about ordinary house flies

[Delta]

On very hot days there are hundreds of house flies all over and around my pepper plants.
 
Are they eating aphids or laying eggs that aphids will eat? Long short - are thay distructive or benificial?
 
I can't seem to find an answer to this simple question on the weeb.
 
Thank you
 

 

[Wulf]

I'm not aware of any threat they pose to plants, and they shouldn't interact with the aphids at all.
 
Depending on the type of aphid they may be attracted to the sugars they put out, but I don't see how that would benefit the aphids at all.

 

[Hawaiianero]

Throw a positive flip on this. Even the flies know how good of a pepper farmer you are because them peppers are the SHIT!!!!!
 
Yeah, it sounded funnier in my head

 

[neoguy]

The normal house fly is not destructive, the more important question should be where the house flies are coming from.

 

[Swampy_NZ]

Had thousands of them hanging around my plants last summer.They seemed to like hanging out in the plants to escape the hottest part of the day.
No damage done although if I disturbed the plants I would get a black swarm of flies in my face  :/

 

[Chilima]

There is not one beneficial reason to keep the flies on the pepper plants.. get rid of them and the source

 

[Shorerider]

Sounds to me like they're trying to keep cool. Moisture escaping from the leaves of your plants is called "transpiration", which among other things, keep your plants cool.

So to the flies, sitting on a leaf with evaporative cooling is far better that sitting on any other "hot" surface.


SR.

 

[Wulf]

There is not one beneficial reason to keep the flies on the pepper plants.. get rid of them and the source

 
If he can attract enough of them that they start littering the ground with their dead, the decaying bodies will fertilize the soil.
 
...Sorry, I like to be contrary.

 

[Chilima]

 
If he can attract enough of them that they start littering the ground with their dead, the decaying bodies will fertilize the soil.
 
...Sorry, I like to be contrary.

 
do what this man says, also keyword here being littering :

 

[Weed]

 
do what this man says, also keyword here being littering :

 
Put your old post back. The over reaction to house flies was out loud funny.

 

[Chilima]

 
Put your old post back. The over reaction to house flies was out loud funny.

 
FINE
 
 
//before edit, god damn it got called on it
 

do what this man says, also keyword here being littering xD
 

 

[Weed]

oh nm i meant this one
 
 

There is not one beneficial reason to keep the flies on the pepper plants.. get rid of them and the source

 
Youre always like "kill it!"
 

 

[Geonerd]

There is not one beneficial reason to keep the flies on the pepper plants.. get rid of them and the source

 
How do you do that w/o poisoning the beneficial critters living in the garden?
 
Have a little faith in the world!  If nothing else, the swarms will attract predatory insects that will chomp destructive bugs as well as the 'innocent' flies.

 

[Delta]

Well this has been interesting, and entertaining.
 
I'm not sure where they come from (the flies) but they show up every year for a few weeks. : /