Integrated Pest Management for Raspberries

A Guide for Sampling and Decision-Making for Key Raspberry Pests in Northwest Washington

 

LIST OF KEY PESTS AND NATURAL ENEMIES
FOUND ON RASPBERRIES IN WHATCOM COUNTY
 

Acknowledgements

Nooksack IPM Advisory Committee

Introduction

Dormant and Pre-Bloom

Bloom/Pre-Harvest

Harvest Period

Post-Harvest

Insect Identification Sheets

Disease Identification Sheets

Tables and Charts

List of Key Pests

OBLR Flights

Clay-Colored and BVW Egg Production

Disease Cycle of Botrytis Cinera

Disease Cycle of Spur Blight

Disease Cycle of Cane Blight

Pesticide Selection

IPM Resources

Pesticides and Water

Common Name

Latin Name

Pests

Root Weevils

Black Vine Weevil
Clay-colored Weevil

Otiorhynchus sulcatus
Otiorhynchus singularis

Caterpillars

Obliquebanded Leafroller
Spotted Cutworm

Choristoneura rosaceana
Amathes c-nigrum

Other

Western Raspberry Fruitworm

Byturus bakeri

Spider Mites

Twospotted Spider Mite
Yellow Spider Mite

Tetranychus urticae
Eotetranychus carpini borealis

Diseases

Spur Blight
Cane Blight
Botrytis cane and fruit rot
Yellow Rust
Phytophthora root rot

Didymella applanata
Leptosphaeria coniothyrium
Botrytis cinerea
Phragmidium rubi-idaei
Phytophthora fragariae var. rubi

Nematodes

Root Lesion
Dagger

Pratylenchus penetrans
Xiphinema bakeri

Natural Enemies

Predator Mite

Amblyseius (Neoseiulus) fallacis

Beetles

Spider Mite Destroyer
Lady Beetles
Predacious Ground Beetles

Stethorus spp.
Family: Coccinellidae
Family: Carabidae

Others

Minute Pirate Bug
Green Lacewing
Stink Bugs

 

 Family: Anthocoridae
Family: Chrysopidae
Family: Pentatomidae

Note: This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of either pests or natural enemies. This represents the most common or key species that are encountered by practitioners in the field.
       
 

G.W. Menzies & C.B. MacConnell, WSU Cooperative Extension Whatcom County
June 1998

Funded in part by: Washington State Department of Ecology through U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Section 319 Funds