Read about pet-friendly, organic ways to prevent a carrot fly infestation from ruining your homegrown carrot crops by causing dirty brown or black tunnels in the carrot roots.

Carrot fly. There's nothing quite like finally pulling up your carrot roots and bringing them into the kitchen, but sometimes, the harvests just aren't what we were expecting.

Garden designer and TikTok creator Ish advised budding gardeners to plant one vegetable in July, otherwise it will be too ...

The carrot fly is a widespread pest that can damage carrots, turning the leaves rust-colored then yellow. The fly’s underground larvae munch the outside of the root, making tunnels and rendering ...

Carrot root fly. It looks like a housefly but it’s the larvae – yellow-white maggots – which do the damage, burrowing into the carrot and leaving it inedible.

By George Weigel/The Patriot-News Q: The leaves of my carrots have small holes right through the middle of the leaves. I researched the Web, but everything I found attacked the root, not the leaves.

July is often regarded as the last chance to sow carrots for an autumn harvest. According to green experts at the Gardeners ...

Thanks for all your comments - sorry to anyone I haven't got round to answering. Seems like people have a lot of questions about the evil carrot fly, and about growing in containers in small spaces.

Carrot fly larvae can result in disfigured carrots (Image: Getty Images/Image Source) This results in hole-filled, disfigured carrots that are crawling with small cream-coloured maggots.