I've found a few tiny caterpillars on my raspberries. 1/4" long, green, tiny little things. They seem to knit a web on the underside of the leaf then pull it in around them to make a cosy shelter.
I am squishing them when I find them.
Anyone know what they are?
Sounds like a type of sawfly, although my bug-book only lists apple, gooseberry and plum sawflies.
Obviously you don't want to spray with an insecticide on an edible crop, so - keep squishing!!
valmarg
Might be the larvae of the Raspberry beetle
Quote from: pye on July 02, 2007, 21:46:54
I've found a few tiny caterpillars on my raspberries. 1/4" long, green, tiny little things. They seem to knit a web on the underside of the leaf then pull it in around them to make a cosy shelter.
I am squishing them when I find them.
Anyone know what they are?
pye, we've got the same on some of ours, they curl the leaf around themselves and the fruit and eat a channel through the top of the fruit, sound like yours? :)
manics that's them!
Only got my first ripe fruit a couple of days ago and there was one noshing away at it! >:(
What are they? Shall I just keep squishing?
no idea, I've been squishing like mad, managing to keep them at bay and get some fruit, hope you can do the same ;D