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    Can carrot fly affect other veg?

    Hi all
    Recently pulled some radishes, which I had planted inbetween onions. On slicing them have found small white maggots in the centre of all of them. Could it be carrot fly as maggots are very small, or could it be onion fly ? If so will my onions be affected as well ?
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    Hi There, Two sheds had another thread about this a few years ago

    here
    Last edited by Mikey; 18-06-2013, 02:24 PM.
    I'm only here cos I got on the wrong bus.

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    • #3
      Very interesting. Thank you, MIkey

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      • #4
        Probably flea beetle grubs. They will attack any brassica. I think carrot fly will attack parsnips.
        Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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        • #5
          Cabbage root fly will attack any brassica. Radish,turnips,swede,cabbage,kale sprouts.calabrese and wallflowers and of course their favourite cauli's.

          Probably missed out quite a few also, but you get my point!
          My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

          Diversify & prosper


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          • #6
            Originally posted by roitelet View Post
            Probably flea beetle grubs. They will attack any brassica. I think carrot fly will attack parsnips.
            and parsley

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Normans Mum View Post
              Could it be carrot fly .. or could it be onion fly ?
              Nope, radishes are brassicas.

              It's cabbage root fly larvae, they do my radishes so badly that I've given up trying to grow them.

              Flea beetle larvae are teeny tiny "delicate and thread like" and feed on root hairs http://richland.uwex.edu/files/2012/07/Flea-Beetle.pdf
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                Even though they're brassicas they're only a short term crop so I grow them out of rotation in with my parsnips and carrots which are enviromeshed throughout so no worries there - slugs however are a different story.

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                Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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