Dr. Phyto

blackberry

Rubus fruticosus

Diseases & pests on this plant

• spotted-wing drosophila (SWD)Drosophila suzukii

  Brown soft patches under skin of ripening berries 24-48h before harvest, tiny white maggots inside fruit when split, fruit collapses + leaks juice within 3 days, males with distinctive black wing-tip spot.

• raspberry beetleByturus tomentosus

  Small (5mm) white maggots inside the drupelet cone of raspberries, brown soft drupelets that fall apart at harvest, beetle damage to flower buds + open flowers in late spring.

• blackberry orange rustSpongospora subterranea blackberry

  Bright orange waxy pustules on leaf undersides in late spring, distorted + dwarfed shoots from infected crowns, complete inhibition of flowering on infected canes, plants live but never fruit usefully.