ISHS Acta Horticulturae 60: Symposium on Breeding and Machine Harvesting of Rubus and Ribes
THE EFFECT OF MECHANICAL HARVESTING ON THE RASPBERRY CANE MIDGE, RESSELIELLA THEOBALDI |
| Author: | J.A.T. Woodford |
| Abstract:
There were more larvae of the raspberry cane midge in primocanes of the red raspberry cultivar, Malling Jewel, damaged by the fish plates on a mechanical harvester than in primocanes from hand-picked rows. There was little difference in the number of larvae occupying natural sites at the base of primocanes in hand-picked and machine-picked rows, but populations on primocanes in machine-picked rows were increased by larvae developing in fish plate wounds. | |
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