Field Vegetables
13 July 2021
Onion thrips are a pest of alliums, peas, field beans, sugar beet and vegetable brassicas.
13 July 2021
Find out about the pea aphid and the damage it causes directly to peas and beans, as well as the viruses it spreads.
13 July 2021
The tarnished plant bug damages numerous field crops including carrots, lettuce, sugar beet and celery.
13 July 2021
The willow–carrot aphid affects carrots, celery, parsnips, parsley and potatoes, and transmits viruses.
13 July 2021
This aphid causes feeding damage and transmits damaging viruses.
13 July 2021
Several species of thrips damage sugar beet, including Caliothrips fasciatus, field thrips and onion thrips.
20 October 2023
Learn how to identify and monitor for the beet leaf miner.
26 July 2021
The cabbage root fly is present throughout the UK and can damage cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprout, kale, Chinese cabbage, swede, turnip and radish.
26 July 2021
Leatherjackets (larvae of crane flies) damage the roots of a wide range of crops.
26 July 2021
Understand the biology and damage caused by the onion fly.
26 July 2021
Pea midge attacks can result in serious yield losses, especially when populations build up in intensive pea-growing areas.
26 September 2024
An introduction to turnip sawfly on brassicas (including how to reduce the damage it causes).