{"id":1367,"date":"2010-07-12T12:10:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T11:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2019-10-20T16:09:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:09:32","slug":"gooseberry-sawfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/gooseberry-sawfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Gooseberry Sawfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1369\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"gooseberry1\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gooseberry1.jpg\" alt=\"gooseberry1\" width=\"356\" height=\"245\" \/>If you love to grow gooseberrys you will know the frustration of the gooseberry sawfly whose larvae can strip the leaves of gooseberry bushes.<\/p>\n<p>I read an article recently about an organic solution to this pest; pick a bucket of foxglove leaves and pour over two pints of boiling water, leave for two days, strain and spray on gooseberry plants before any caterpillars appear.<\/p>\n<p>So if you have foxgloves in your garden why not give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of other non chemical controls:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regularly check the plants from mid-April onwards for sawfly larvae and pick them off by hand.<\/li>\n<li>A pathogenic nematode, sold as Nemasys Grow Your Own, can be watered onto infested plants. The nematodes enter the bodies of the sawfly larvae and infect them with a bacterial disease.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chemical controls available include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Insecticides are Provado Ultimate Bug Killer, Westland Plant Rescue Fruit &amp; Vegetable Bug Killer<\/li>\n<li>Organic pesticides such as Py Garden Insect Killer, Scotts Bug Clear Gun for Fruit &amp; Veg, or Doff All in One Bug Spray<\/li>\n<li>Spray when young larvae are seen, with an insecticide approved for use  on gooseberryand red currant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love to grow gooseberrys you will know the frustration of the gooseberry sawfly whose larvae can strip the leaves of gooseberry bushes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1645],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-pests-diseases","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15804,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/15804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}