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Control Carrot and Celery Fly  * Today's article was written by Richard Haigh; he  writes regularly at The-Organic-Grower.blogspot.com   and invites you to read more of his articles about organic gardening there. That little pest that really annoys me is the Carrot fly: A creature that is a member of the Psilidae family, also called " Rust Flies ". Apart from eating carrots, they can also be found on: celery, parsnips and parsley. I seems me that they are out to get my crop, what ever I do. To understand them, the place to start is to know what they do. The fly lays their eggs at the base of the plant, they hatch and start eating the nearest food, which is, your crop. The fly is attacked to the seedlings by the odour of them There are two ways of preventing this, both of them, try to make the crop distasteful to the fly. One way of doing this is to soak sawdust in paraffin and spread this down between the rows. Another idea is to spread wood ash over the whole seed-bed. H...