Just a heads up... spotted some holes in my currant leaves today.... the start of the gooseberry sawfly season...
Picked a few more off.... I noticed some ants carrying away one... so I have been picking the larvae off and dropping where the ants roam... and they've sent reinforcements... and seem quite accepting of all the larvae...
Pesticide free way to go!
A number of years ago we had a very tame blackbird. Saw me in the garden and 'demanded' I dig some worms for him. Followed me everywhere for food, off to the nest to feed the young and back again. When I had gooseberry sawfly, he followed me into the fruit cage and helped himself to them. When I went out, he followed out again. Same the next day. Until they were gone! Unfortunately blackbirds only live for two years. This one was unusually tame. I guess picking the sawfly off and dropping them near a blackbird's nest will see them gone fast too.