Content related to the topic: pests

Understand how three generations of frit fly each year can damage cereals such as grasses, maize and spring oats.

Gout fly is present across the UK and an occasional minor pest of wheat, barley and triticale.

Leatherjackets (larvae of crane flies) damage the roots of a wide range of crops.

Understand the biology and damage caused by the onion fly.

Pea midge attacks can result in serious yield losses, especially when populations build up in intensive pea-growing areas.

An introduction to turnip sawfly on brassicas (including how to reduce the damage it causes).

Learn about the life cycle and how to identify yellow cereal flies.

The allium leaf miner causes damage to onions, leeks and garlic.

Learn about the cereal stem sawfly and leaf sawflies.

Learn how to identify and control the cabbage moth to limit the damage caused to vegetable brassicas.

Cutworms, the larvae of various moth species, damage many horticultural crops, as well as potatoes and sugar beet.

Garden pebble moth larvae can damage and contaminate vegetable brassica crops.