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If you’re growing red or white currents or gooseberries you might like to pop outside and check them NOW!<\/p>\n

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gooseberry sawfly larvae<\/p><\/div>\n

This pretty little caterpillar isn’t as cute as it looks. It’s the larvae of a sawfly that can devastate a currant or gooseberry fruit bush in a couple of days, stripping them of all their foliage and leaving them weak.<\/p>\n

The gooseberry sawfly can have three generations over a year from April to September. Once the caterpillars are full they drop into the soil and pupate.<\/p>\n

How can you deal with the Gooseberry Sawfly organically?<\/h2>\n

Vigilance! From April onwards check your fruit and currant bushes for larvae, picking any off by hand that you spot.<\/p>\n

If you do spot them you can buy Nemasys Grow Your Own<\/a> and water the nematodes onto plants. Mr Middleton stock them in Ireland and can post them out.<\/p>\n

Try to encourage beneficial insects to your garden that will feed on them.<\/p>\n

I’m trying a garlic spray on our redcurrants<\/a> in the hope it will halt the caterpillars in their tracks.<\/p>\n

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