A veteran organic gardener believes farmers could solve a modern agricultural problem through traditional methods – by using manure to get rid of cabbage root flies in brassicas. 80-year-old head ...

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CABBAGE root fly has been the biggest problem in producing some excellent samples of organic cauliflower at Coswinsawsin, says farm manager Paul Harris. Garlic-based sprays every eight days helped but ...

The stages in the ovarian cycle of female Erioischia brassicae could be numbered in a similar way to that of other Muscids. Oviposition could be identified by the presence of an expanded ovarian ...

The cabbage family contains rather toxic compounds. Cabbage fly larvae attack cabbages and rapeseed ferociously nonetheless. How can that be? Its gut bacteria deliver a special service to their host: ...

THE control of carrot fly by the application of insecticides direct to the plant rows has shown interesting anomalies when compared with that of root flies of somewhat similar habits. Calomel, for ...

Plant-mediated interactions between two belowground agricultural pests uncovered: When field mustard plants are infected by root-knot nematodes, they change their defence strategy in a way that ...