Gardening Tip: Exterminating Root Maggots
As many gardeners can attest, root maggots are a pernicious destroyer of garden crops.
Root maggots are the larvae of numerous species of dark gray flies (family - Anthomyiidae) that look like the common housefly, only smaller. The most common and serious root maggot pest in Oregon is Dalia radicum, the cabbage root maggot. It was introduced from Europe more than a century ago and will feed on plants of the mustard family or Cruciferae (e.g. cabbage, broccoli, turnips, radishes, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cress, mustard).
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