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Pulling up a carrot and discovering the nasty excrement-filled tunnels left behind by carrot fly (aka carrot rust fly) larvae can be a nasty surprise as there may be no sign of damage above ground.

Dear Helen: Is it true that parsley planted with carrots will repel the rust fly from the carrots? A friend claims that planting parsley seedlings one metre apart in a carrot row has kept the flies ...

Covering carrot plantings with floating row cover is the easiest, surest way of preventing ruinous damage to the roots from carrot rust fly larvae. Dear Helen: You have written occasionally about the ...

The Carrot Rust Fly is a carrot attacker. The maggots of the fly burrow in via the roots and, according to farmer Carlos Amaral, render the carrots unmarketable.The Bermuda Farmers’ Association in a ...

Row covers are an effective way to protect early and late season crops from all manner of threat, including frost and annoying, voracious pests. I resisted investing in row covers for years, but after ...