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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talk ZEDB. Rude climb Past is in the

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Speaker 1: garden for us this morning talking clusterflies, which is the

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Speaker 1: sort of thing that most of us would be disgusted by,

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Speaker 1: but of course Rude is a little bit delighted by

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Good mornings there, good finding Jack. You do realize that

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Speaker 2: the clusterflies were in discovered by talkback callers on news

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Speaker 2: Talks EDB in nineteen eighty four.

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Speaker 1: No, are you serious?

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Speaker 2: There you go? Yeah, absolutely. I was working for the

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Speaker 2: Ministry of Anger and Fisheads or meth whatever they call themselves,

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Speaker 2: and we got these complaints of these funny little flies

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Speaker 2: that were coming in the north shore. That was in

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four, and we went out and there to

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Speaker 2: look and found, Oh gosh, it's the new species. This

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Speaker 2: new to New Zealand. That's the cluster fly from Europe basically,

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Speaker 2: and it came in probably on some cargo and ships

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Speaker 2: and things like that. Oh goodness, Yeah, it was I

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Speaker 2: won't forget that. It was really cool fun because I

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Speaker 2: was just working meth for the first year or so

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Speaker 2: and there we went. That was great fun. But those

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Speaker 2: flies are actually quite lovely if you see them. They're

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Speaker 2: very common in the South Island, by the way, and

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Speaker 2: probably also common in the cooler places of the North Island.

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Speaker 2: So I thought, I'll just there's a lot of that

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Speaker 2: stuff on the on the on the website, so you

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Speaker 2: can read it all. I know that all the time

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Speaker 2: in the world. Gorgeous fly, golden hairs on its on

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Speaker 2: its back. It's beautiful actually, size of a blowfly, that

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Speaker 2: sort of thing. Yeah, and a parasite of earthworms.

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Speaker 1: Oh really, it lays.

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Speaker 2: Eggs in earthworm burrows and then the maggots basically killed

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Speaker 2: the earthworms. It's not any any major thing for the

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Speaker 2: earthworm population. It doesn't seem to, you know, hassle them

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Speaker 2: that much. But then comes this time of the year

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Speaker 2: and all the adult cluster flies are getting together. They

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Speaker 2: work together a little bit like that Vatican stuff, you know,

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Speaker 2: they work together. They stick their fingers up and said,

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Speaker 2: this is where we go, and they put an pheromone

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Speaker 2: trip into this hole the whole where they go into

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Speaker 2: somebody's house or under the house or in the ceiling,

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Speaker 2: and that's where they will be for the winter. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's cool stuff. But the problem is they've got this

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Speaker 2: sticky fair amount which is quite rubbishy stent and nasty

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Speaker 2: and all that and smells like buckwheat honey, and it's

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Speaker 2: really hard to control those things. And I know you

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Speaker 2: probably haven't had them in Auckland where you are, but

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Speaker 2: if you try to get rid of them, they're all

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Speaker 2: the stick and stuff and grime will stay everywhere. So

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Speaker 2: here is the best way to go about it. It's

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Speaker 2: an oily material of course that they leave anywhere on

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Speaker 2: the services. But if you get a residual aerosol cane

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Speaker 2: from Safe Works. We've talked about this before. Safe Works

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Speaker 2: is a company that has aerosolt cans that we designed

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Speaker 2: for aircraft sprays and things like that, long lasting, you

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Speaker 2: can actually get rid of them without causing too much

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Speaker 2: extra mess for yourself. That's really what it's about.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, you just get the aerosol can, very good

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Speaker 1: and it's Safe Works with an X, isn't it like

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Speaker 1: Safe Work.

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Speaker 2: At the end? You got it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: the US okay now, But honestly it's the way to

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Speaker 2: go about it, and you'll find you will be able

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Speaker 2: to stop them from going in and out because the

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Speaker 2: pheromone will be basically toxic by then they won't get in.

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Speaker 2: Oh very good.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks RhoD, appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: So boy to welcome through climb pass in the garden

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Speaker 2: with the clusterfliers for us this morning.

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