Integrated Pest Management for Raspberries

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

 

CANE BLIGHT
Leptosphaeria coniothyrium

 

Acknowledgements

Nooksack IPM Advisory Committee

Introduction

Dormant and Pre-Bloom

Bloom/Pre-Harvest

Harvest Period

Post-Harvest

Insect Identification Sheets

Disease Identification Sheets

Fruit and Cane Botrytis

Spur Blight

Yellow Rust

Cane Blight

Phytophthora Root Rot

Tables and Charts

Pesticide Selection

IPM Resources

Pesticides and Water

Machine Damage
Physical damage to primocane from harvesting machine, which provides entrance-way for infection by cane blight. 
(Photo courtesy P. R. Bristow)

Red Streaking
Red streaking on Meeker raspberry floricanes in the spring caused by cane blight infection from the  previous year. 
(Photo courtesy of  G. Menzies)

Scraping Bark
Scraping bark away from primocanes in the fall reveals red vascular streaking, a common sign of cane blight infection.
(Photo courtesy P. R. Bristow)

 
       
 

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