Beetroot Bugs!!! Help!!!

The leaves of my beetroot plants are all going brown and withering away. On closer inspection there are litle maggoty things inside the leaves. What are they and what do i do?? Ive pulled off the infected leaves but more keep appearing.

Please help I've only started growing this year and don't have a clue. :cry:

Leaf miners on their own hardly cause very big damage to them, aren't sprayed for even commercially. The leaves don't normally brown and die with miners in. They leave characteristic tunnels on the leaves as if scribbled on.

Take them off and if no joy, post a picture.

Quote from: "gobs"

The leaves don't normally brown and die with miners in.

In that case, you'd better tell Dr. Hessayon!

I'd rather you break that to him, Dave, I'm not a mate.


That's my personal experience and I'm not intimidated with any H word and the likes to talk my mind.

They might die , just as any other old leaf would do, not much sooner and defo not as fast as the question post lets to suggest, we wouldn't really have a chance to see leaf miner damage on the leaf for weeks on end, would we?