They're not native to North America. Back in the day, the natives called them the white man's flies. They brought them over with the early settlements because they couldn't figure out why their fruit trees and whatnot weren't getting pollinated.
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They're not native to North America. Back in the day, the natives called them the white man's flies. They brought them over with the early settlements because they couldn't figure out why their fruit trees and whatnot weren't getting pollinated.
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