A small fly whose larvae are a widespread pest of carrots, burrowing into the roots.
胡萝卜茎蝇
Psila rosae, family Psilidae
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The same treatment will keep the carrot fly away from that crop.
Plant it among the cabbages and with onions and carrots to repel carrot fly.
Sow carrots for autumn use, they are less liable to attack by carrot fly at this time of year.
Late carrots can be planted now that the first hatch of carrot fly has passed.
I leave sowing carrots until June to avoid the first attack of carrot fly, but children will eat them at any size and a row sown now will be far enough on before the roots have become woodwormed by the larvae.
An organic box delivered to your door, earth, slugs, carrot fly and all, offers a better deal for British farmers.