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Lettuce root maggot


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Symptoms

They attack seedling root systems and may feed inside plants in cool wet seasons.

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Root maggots are legless white larvae which develop from eggs laid on the soil by dark grey Delia spp. flies. The maggot head is pointed and the rear is blunt.

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