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08-DEC-2007 Brooks Rownd

Fruits And Trematos

Pu'u Maka'ala NAR

Fruits bursting and being cleaned down to the skeletal seed-carrying trematos by fruit flies.

Nikon D80 ,Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED AF-S DX Zoom
1/60s f/14.0 at 100.0mm iso400
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Brooks Rownd07-Mar-2008 12:40
Do you have any reason to believe those are alien fruit flies, and not the natives?
Selvin Chance07-Mar-2008 12:35
Ironic ain't it. Native plant being stripped by alien invasive fuit flies.
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