The pasty fly

Pasties on the tree sometimes attract what appears to be a dark coloured fly. This has been reported many times, even in recent years. Only last year we were sent a photograph of a fly on a pasty .....
 

With a little effort on the camera, we have managed to get a better picture .....
 

Anyone can see that this is no special fly, in fact he's not a fly at all because he has wing cases! That makes it a beetle. Also, if you look closely, you can see it has three red eyes - its a croust beetle!

It has been explained already, on the croust beetle page, that Cornish pasties are resistant to beetle.

So there is another myth destroyed - there is no such thing as the pasty fly.

I sometimes wonder about the things people say about our pasties .....