A small fly whose larvae are a widespread pest of carrots, burrowing into the roots.
Psila rosae, family Psilidae
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.