Celery Leaf Miner - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 54070 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 80.00 UMBELLIFERAE | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Celery Leaf Miner | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Celery Leaf Miner | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Celery Leaf MinerUse: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Various stages in the life history of the celery leaf miner - celery leaf mined by grubs, grub magnified, grubs or larvae, fly magnified, chrysalis or pupa, chrysalis magnified and perfect fly. Life History - the celery fly lays her eggs on, on in the celery leaves, (and also on the leaves of parsnips) the maggots feed between the under and upper side of the leaves, causing large blister like patches, and when full fed they turn to chrysalids. Sometimes they turn in the leaf, but more common, ly the maggots drop down and turn in the ground. They go through their changes very quickly, so that there may be several broods in the year, and attack may be found from the middle of May until Christmas. The maggots of the autumn brood turn to chrysalid, s in the ground. Prevention and remedies - pinching the maggot in the leaf, or nipping out the blistered bit and destroying it checks much of the insect, but for the time being does nearly as much harm to the plant as the maggot would have done. Refuse le, aves that are infested should be destroyed, as if thrown to manure heaps the maggots will probably go through their changes almost as numerously as if still on the plants, and the fly shortly starts new attack. It has been found that soot sprinkled on the, leaves will sometimes check attack; also a mixture of one part quick lime one part gas lime that has been exposed at least one month, and two parts of earth and soot all well mixed together and scattered throughly on the plants and ground has been founds, ervicable, but no dressing can be throughly trusted to prevent or stop attack. If the plant is weak, or suffers from drought it will necessarily fail much sooner than when there is a healtly luxuriant growth, and as heavy rain will sometimes check attack, for a while, probably heavy drenchings of water would do so likewise. Celery or parsnips should not be planted on ground infested the previous year. | ||||