Entries for the tag ‘Delia radicum’
Crop pest known variously as the cabbage fly, cabbage root fly, root fly or turnip fly. 
- 17 May 1823: “Doncaster fertiliser manufacturers imported more than a million bushels of skeletons from Waterloo and other Napoleonic battlefields in 1822”
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