onion fly
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The onion fly may, in part, at least, be abated by the use of equal parts of wood ashes and land plaster dusted very thoroughly on the young plants.
From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous
The chief insect enemies are onion maggots, the larvae of the onion fly.
From The Home Acre by Roe, Edward Payson
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