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- Detect and eliminate pests on raspberries
- The main pests of raspberries
- Raspberry beetle causes magpie fruits
- Aphids and gallbladies
- Useful gardeners
- Tips & Tricks
Detect and eliminate pests on raspberries
Raspberries are not only popular with humans. Pests also like to eat leaves, rods and fruits. This will help you to identify which pests you are dealing with and what you can do about it.
The main pests of raspberries
Raspberry beetle causes magpie fruits
The raspberry beetle is probably the gardener's worst enemy. He prefers to lay his eggs on the leaves and in the flowers of raspberries. The developing larvae eat leaves and cripple the fruits. The healthy-looking raspberries often contain maggots.
The raspberry beetle occurs only in spring. The two to three millimeter beetle is visible to the naked eye. Incidentally, he is dangerous only for summer raspberries. When the autumn raspberries bloom, it stops laying eggs.
To fight the raspberry beetle, knock off the rods. The beetle falls to the ground and is collected. It is also helpful to put a cuff made of cardboard or straw around the raspberry grooves. At night, the beetle larvae collect in it and can be removed in the morning.
Aphids and gallbladies
They often come together in action. Aphids recognize easily if you check the raspberries regularly during raspberry care. That gallbluts are at work, shows up by crippled, dried leaves and weak rods, which come in after some time.
Helpful is the spraying with nettle broth, which you can easily make yourself from nettle herb.
Also useful is soapy water, which you mix with a dash of vinegar. Inject the affected areas several times with the nettle stock or the soapsuds until you have distributed all the pests.
Useful gardeners
There are some useful inhabitants of the raspberry bush that are helpful in controlling aphids, gall bladder or raspberry beetles. These include earwigs, lacewings and ladybirds.
These insects and bugs should never drive you away. Instead, attach so-called "insect hotels" near the shrubs. The use of these gardeners often makes chemical control superfluous.
Tips & Tricks
Aphids are among the most annoying pests in the garden. Experienced gardeners advise to provide the soil with some nitrogen-containing fertilizer after the elimination of the infestation. As a result, recurrence can at least be delayed.