Pest on crop
Raspberry Cane Borer on black raspberry
Oberea bimaculata
Long-horned beetle whose larvae girdle and tunnel into bramble canes, causing characteristic wilted shoot tips.
- Pest
- Raspberry Cane Borer
- Scientific name
- Oberea bimaculata
- Crop
- Black Raspberry
- Total hosts
- 4
Raspberry Cane Borer on black raspberry
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Signs on black raspberry
- ▸ Two parallel rings of punctures around cane tips with wilted shoot above
- ▸ Larval tunneling inside canes
- ▸ Cane dieback in second year
IPM controls
- ✓ Prune wilted tips 6 inches below the punctures and destroy
- ✓ Inspect canes during summer for girdling
- ✓ Remove and burn affected canes during dormant pruning
- ✓ Encourage parasitoid wasps
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