Annoying instant aux channel strip question

Howdy all,
Has anyone else been bugged by the following behavior in MS.
I'm working in a patch, and I have channel strip with verb and input bus 3. I also have a delay channel strip, and I decide to send the delay to the verb by instantiating a send to bus 3.
This works fine, except MS also makes an extra aux channel strip at the concert level with input bus 3. This serves no purpose, and I have to move the to concert level to delete this unwanted channel strip.
Am I missing something here, or is this just way it is?
Thanks for anyones input.

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