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Yes Charles, the little beggars are driving me mad. I checked my purple tree collard as well as another kale whose name escapes me and they were ok, no signs of maggots, but whether they will forgive me for the cold bath they got remains to be seen. Do the horrors really only eat brassica roots? Must look online for more info on the darned things.
Brie, I haven’t had a veg garden for about 3 years now, because my husband was diagnosed with heart failure in April that year (2015) and I just couldn’t spare the time for the garden. I gave all of my veg seedlings/young plants to my neighbour so there have been no brassicas grown on my plot for at least that long. And that particular bed had never had brassicas grown there anyway. So I would think it unlikely that any CRFly over wintered here, but they came from somewhere. There are no neighbours nearer than 1/4 of a mile from here and he doesn’t grow veg anyway, so I have no idea where they came from. We live 1,000 ft up on the southern side of a mountain in North Wales, so how they found my brassicas the first time I don’t know, but they came back again obviously.