"Cat(h)" writes

K wrote:
"Cat(h)" writes
nd am I naive to expect
they might get *just a little* sweeter???

While I'm on the gooseberry subject. I had last year my first
infestation of the caterpillars of the gooseberry fly - can't remember
its precise name, but the grubs are about 2cm long, green with black
head and legs. At the time, I got rid of it by spraying an organic
insecticide - which did the trick. This year, by the time I spotted
them, they had got onto the redcurrant bush.

Are they the same ones? I thought the gooseberry ones were Gooseberry
Sawfly and specific to gooseberry.


They are most definitely the same caterpillars, and doing the very same
damage. I read up a bit about them, and found that they are also
partial to all manners of rubuses - especially currant bushes.

Interesting, I wondered about that.

I had a good look at all my bushes yesterday evening, and I can see no
more caterpillars, and no further damage.

Strictly, they're not caterpillars, since they don't grow up into
butterflies or moths ;-)
--
Kay