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“The carrot fly will ruin the entire crop of carrots to you,” the gardeners warned.
In May, the fly actively lays small white eggs at the root neck of carrots, which is difficult to notice. After a week, larvae appear – yellowish worms up to 5 mm, which rush through the moves in root crops. They leave rusty winding traces, because of which carrots become bitter, deform and begins to rot.
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In rainy weather, the fly lays eggs and all summer. Larvae easily fall with the crop into storage places and continue to destroy the carrots after the collection.
For prevention and in the presence of a pest, gardeners advised the use of Twix insecticide per 10 ml per 10 liters of water per two hundredths of the garden.
