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Royal Horticultural Society scientists are working with Warwick Crop Centre entomologists on methods of controlling carrot fly in gardens and allotments. A trial at RHS Wisley is testing different barriers to see whether they stop the flies reaching the plants to lay eggs.

How does research on pests at Warwick Crop Centre help gardeners?

Read the blog about the carrot fly trial at RHS Wisley

Warwick Crop Centre researchers John Clarkson and Rob Lillywhite will be speaking at Narcissus Grower Workshops in Lincolnshire and Cornwall later this month.

The final reports for two Warwick Crop Centre projects have just been published on the AHDB website. They are:

FV 416b - Brassicas: Treatments to control cabbage root fly giving the results of our work on application of treatments in modules, cabbage root fly activity and control in the south-west, and the use of mesh on swedes

FV 445 - Carrots: Optimising control of willow-carrot aphid and carrot fly gives up to date action points for control of these pests and the effect of chemical treatments on aphids, carrot fly and virus levels in the crop.

A workshop on pollinators led by Dr Martine Barons and Professor Jim Smith from the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick was featured on BBC Radion 4's Farming Today programme this morning. The podcast can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076nzh9. More details about the research can be found here.