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  1. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    Until the age of 33 she lived in Novosibirsk, we had a private house with a backyard and a plot in a gardening society (at one time all large enterprises had such). Raspberries occupied most of the plots; they collected fragrant sweet berries in buckets. Of the pests, they knew the weevil and the raspberry beetle, the larva of which lived inside the berries, but they did not cause much damage. Everyone knows these enemies by sight, they are easy to detect, and how to deal with them, everyone decides for himself - with chemistry, folk remedies or manual collection, if the planting area is small.
    But about three years ago, I ran into something incomprehensible; raspberry bushes in some places, regardless of the variety, began to turn yellow and, having already gained color and even forming ovaries, dried up. I read books, leafed through magazines, looked for an answer on the Internet. I would also know what to look for ... At first I decided that it was a disease, but my problem did not fit into the framework of the known and described raspberry diseases. With a zero result, raspberries went into winter, but when the next year the number of affected bushes grew even more, I panicked. What to save your favorite berry from ?!
    I began to read everything and only in one small book I came across a description of signs of damage to raspberries with a glass, namely: the shoots break easily in the lower part, or rather, at the soil level.

    I immediately went to the raspberry-tree, easily broke off a withering bush and, splitting the trunk below, found a white caterpillar almost as thick as a little finger.
    Little has been written about this pest in her book, and full information can be found on the Internet.

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