I tried the apple cider vinegar/honey trap, didn’t work, tried those sticky traps but they pretty much got all my rove beetle friends! i also tried killing them all with a fly swatter but i lack skills!
I got about 50 of those buzzing around my tent and outside of it as well, not sure what do do, can’t identify the damn thing either, they don’t hurt the plant or nothing, they are just SO annoying, any suggestions how to get rid of those flies without killing my rove beetles?
No, it’s definitely not a stink bug, or any other kind of true bug. It’s a dipterid of some kind, possibly a species of fungus feeding fly. It’s most likely breeding in the substrate. Probably not harmful to the plants, but they will get glued to your buds (super annoying).
Yup, though without being able to look at a specimen under a dissecting scope to look at wing veins, mouthparts, and reproductive organs, it’s pretty difficult to get an exact species.
Do you happen to live near a big body of water? I suspect that these might be a species of shore fly, which are relatively harmless but still a nuisance.
If OP lives near a water source, I think it might be one of the myriad Ephydridae species. It could still be a fungus fly, though not the commonly occurring species.
