Onion maggots (Delia antiqua) can cause significant damage to your home vegetable garden, specifically targeting plants in the Allium family, such as onions, garlic, and leeks. Identifying …

Jan 13, 2019 · Onion fly (Delia antiqua) is similar to the usual room fly. Its body reaches an average length of 6-7 mm and has a yellowish-gray color. The first years of this pest falls on …

May 23, 2022 · We show you how to protect your plants from the fly and how to fight it. The onion fly belongs to the family of flower flies and is anything but a welcome guest for hobby …

Oct 3, 2024 · A worldwide pest of allium family crops, onion fly larvae or onion root maggots (Delia antiqua) are most common in temperate climates with moist, moderate summers. High …

Aug 11, 2022 · Onion maggots are the larval form of a little gray fly that looks a lot like a common housefly except that it is only one-fourth inch (6 mm.) long. The small, cream-colored maggots …

Delia antiqua, commonly known as the onion fly, is a cosmopolitan pest of crops. The larvae or maggots feed on onions, garlic, and other bulbous plants. The onion fly has an ash-grey body …

Mar 13, 2022 · As it turns out, we had a really bad infestation of onion root maggots (also known as an onion fly) in 2020. They devastated nearly our entire allium crop in 2020 and has us …

Onion maggots are a common and often serious pest of plants in the onion family, including onions, leeks, shallots, garlic and chives. Learn about these pests, the damage they cause, …

A fly that is slightly larger than the common housefly, onion fly is a destructive pest for certain Alliaceae plants. Not only do they reproduce extremely fast, but the larvae trigger bulb rot and …

Adult onion maggot flies survive about 2 to 3 weeks, during which hundreds of eggs may be laid. Eggs will hatch into maggots within 2 to 3 days. Maggots feed on roots and bulbs below the …