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[Gerdk]

Hagen,
Kapitale Strecke, Halali !    (enormous kill, Halali)
- sorry, can't translate this correctly - this is German hunter's jargon -

Gerd

[Hagen Engelmann]

Ja Gerd, was sein muß, muß sein. What must be, must be.

[Martin Baxendale]

Hagen, I hit the flies with a tennis racket when they sit on leaves. Why do you put your flies in the freezer? I might be sorry that I asked that question!!   

[Hagen Engelmann]

Martin, I thought, the living flies in the net could be hormone-traps for the other flying insects. Sadly not.
The freezer made them only sturdy for a good foto for the forum. So you can see better the differences of colour.
Today the experience is on end and the flies must die after catching.
Martin, I have seen some nice colchicum from your garden in the net. Is there a chance to swap some bulbs?

[Martin Baxendale]

Hagen, I think it must be Mark's garden where you have seen the colchicums. Mark grows a lot of colchicums but I have only 2 or 3 autumn colchicums.

[Gerard Oud]

Like i said Hagen, if you kill one there will be at leats 5 on its funeral. I do count on your photo 23 flies x 5 is 115 flies to come. That will be a total invasion in your garden, if you need volunteers to catch them just send me a mail. Maybe its also possible to catch them with a kind of glue where you catch normal flies with, but then a glue that scents like narcissus.

[Hans J]

Hagen,
Kapitale Strecke, Halali !    (enormous kill, Halali)
- sorry, can't translate this correctly - this is German hunter's jargon -

Gerd

Hi all ,

here is a little information for our friends from England about "Halali" :

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halali_(J%C3%A4ger)

more information is here :
 
http://www.meutejagd.de/halali.html

Sorry Hagen -it doesn't not exist a special signal for : Narcissus fly dead .....maybe you should composed it ...

Here is Halali :

[Armin]

Hello Hagen,
impressive run down! I wish you further good luck for fly hunting, Waidmann's Heil 

I've not seen / heard any yet in my garden but they are out there 

[Anthony Darby]

I haven't seen any bulb flies yet. They must be late here this year?

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hi Galanthophile,

the first run of narcissusflies is over. I believe it`s the only run, because the flies have only one generation pro/every year. We had iflies in the villages bot also in towngardens. When you plant narcissus, so you have a good magnet for narcissusflies. May be you only loose the narcissus. 

Is anyone , who remembers for the white time?

[ArneM]

@ Hagen

Is it a nivalis field? There is one interesting with elongated flowers. Can you remember where it was? 

[Maggi Young]

Is anyone , who remembers for the white time?

Hagen, and all you Snowdrop fans, snowdrop time is still here, even without going to Australia...... see the Iran page! 
Here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1830.new#new

[Hagen Engelmann]

thank you Maggi,
we galanthophiles should have our eyes everywhere.
If you were still in Berlin, it would be a short trip to this galanthusparadise. We have open this weekend!

[Maggi Young]

Hagen,  I wish you a sunny weekend and many happy visitors for your open days! 
I will spend the weekend fighting slugs and snails and caterpillars 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Thank you Maggi, it was a sunny weekend. The runners were Geranium and Hosta. Nobody asked for Galanthus. Nobody missed Galanthus.