Carrot Root Fly Damage on Storage??

[George the Pigman]

Can one get carrot root fly damage once the carrots have been pulled? I picked some carrots last week and I swear they looked OK but on storage in our garage they now have quite a lot of carrot root fly damage. There was some soil still attached to the carrots.

[George the Pigman]

[PurpleHeather]

It seems reasonable to assume that if the bug is there when the crop is harvested that it will survive long enough to do damage.

[saddad]

They won't be flying now but the damage will have been done in the soil... as the maggots get bigger the damage becomes more noticeable..  :'(