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Also scattered around the upper marsh are blue painted boxes which are a device to control the greenhead fly population. For an unknown reason, the greenheads enter the underside of the box through a narrow trap arrangement, and they are unable to find their way back out. According to the Cape Cod Natural History Museum, these traps can eliminate 70% of an area's greenhead population.
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