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This years raspberries have almost all been attacked by maggots so unless anyone knows of a pest resistant variety we are going to get them all up and just rely on the autumn ones that are less prone to attack.
We dont mind the occasional grub but not as a main course  ;D

I don't think anyone's managed to produce a resistent raspberry, so apart from insecticide, you might be able to try sticky traps, which attract the beetles, and reduce numbers which get to the flowers. Or I read somewhere that hoeing around the raspberries helps unearth the pupating larvae so birds can eat them.

Where you buy sticky traps I've no idea. But I had a lot of maggots this year and I don't want numbers to build up (if they do that) so I'm also looking for things to try.

Also you can soak them, as you would soak blackberries, and the maggots float to the top. But it does affect some of the very ripe fruit, which swell up and get watery.

Nearly every one of ours are scabbed at the top of the fruit and they don't even look very nice to eat. I did spray them just as directed but to no avail.

I think that the scabbing you are seeing on the fruit is a sort of a sunburn, I see more of it in this sort of scorching hot weather, also on loganberries & tayberries. Seems to be worst on the  topmost fruit and less on the shaded fruit.

Im sorry to hear about your problems with maggots Shirlton
I havent had that problem this year but the raspberries have looked fine but been crumbly when picked even when I watered loads through the very dry hot spell. They have had very little taste too due to being dry, not juicy at all  :'(
I usually get fabulous crops of very tasty fruit so think it must be linked to the weather ??? 

That sounds like a disaster.

After the hot spell we had rain (hooray) and very high winds here at the coast (not hooray) and as I hadn't tied my raspberries in well, they whipped about in the wind and the fruit afterwards was a bit tough and scabby in places, where it had been damaged.

I've hardly ever watered them though - they seem really tough things, they've been growing great all through the drought.

But after being so plucky in the face of our erratic weaher, of course the beetles get 'em...   :'(

Thanks for the interest but am gonna get em out today.( The raspberries that is) ;D

OO  er missus.    :P :P :P    :-*

Well really! I don't know where to look!  ;D