SOME INSECTS INJURIOUS TO VEGETABLES 
Guienn W. Herrick 
Professor of Economic Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 
CABBAGE ROOT-MAGGOT 
The cabbage root-maggot (Pegomya brassicw) is one of the 
serious pests to cabbage in New York State. The parent insect 
of the maggot is a small fly (Fig. 395) which resembles in gen- 
eral appearance the house-fly, but is considerably smaller, being 
only about one-fifth of an inch in length. The flies appear in 
Fic. 395— Cappacr Root Maccor (GREATLY ENLARGED) 
the spring, usually the first half of May, and deposit their 
whitish eggs on the soil or in crevices of the soil close to the stem 
of the cabbage plant. Here the eggs hatch and the maggots attack 
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