Cabbage Maggot
Delia radicum
The adult is a small grey fly found around fields, gardens, and weedy edges where brassica plants grow. It flies low over vegetation, feeds on small amounts of nectar or other surface fluids, and seeks host plants for egg laying. Unlike the larva, it does not tunnel into roots, but uses flight to disperse and find suitable plants. One notable fact is that this fly is often mistaken for a tiny house fly, even though its larval stage is the damaging crop pest.
- Type
- Wing
- Conservation status
- NE
Growth chain
- Cabbage Maggot Larva
- ?
- Cabbage Maggot