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Cranberry-Root weevil Includes Black vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) Strawberry root weevil (O. ovatus) Pest description and crop damage Larvae are white with tan heads and have no legs. Adults are black beetles 0.25 to 0.5 inch long. Larvae feed on s ...

Cranberry-Scale Brown soft scale (Coccus hesperidum) Cottony scale (Pulvinaria spp.) Greedy scale (Hemiberlesia rapax) Lecanium scale (Lecanium spp.) Oystershell (mussel) scale (Lepidosaphes ulmi) Pest description and crop damage Scale are sucking insects ...

Currant and gooseberry-Cottony maple scale Pulvinaria innumerabilis Pest description and crop damage The cottony maple scale is one of the largest soft scales. Immature forms (crawlers) are flattened and brown to yellowish green in color; however, the con ...

Currant and gooseberry-Currant aphid Cryptomyzus ribis Pest description and crop damage This aphid is commonly found on currants and occasionally found on gooseberries. Adult aphids are greenish yellow and about 2 mm long. Immature aphids are yellowish in ...

Currant and gooseberry-Currant borer Synanthedon tipuliformis Pest description and crop damage The adult is a blue-black clear-wing moth with yellow markings. In both sexes there is a prominent, shield-like tuft of long scales at the posterior end of the ...

Currant and gooseberry-Currant fruit fly (gooseberry maggot) Euphranta canadensis Pest description and crop damage The adult is a small yellowish fly, about 8 mm long, with bright green eyes and smoky bands across the wings. The maggots are white, cylindr ...

Currant and gooseberry-Currant stem girdler Janus integer Pest description and crop damage A slender species of sawfly that is about 6 to 12 mm long; females are slightly larger than the males. Both sexes have a black head and thorax. The male has a brown ...

Currant and gooseberry-Gooseberry cambium miner Opostegoides scioterma Pest description and crop damage Adults are a gray moth, about 6 mm long, that can be seen flying in early summer. Larvae are slender and semi-transparent. They feed and mine under the ...

Currant and gooseberry-Imported currant worm Nematus ribesii Pest description and crop damage Adults are black sawflies about 8-9 mm long with light yellow marks on the abdomen. Larvae initially are small and white, but full-grown larvae are about 12 mm l ...

Currant and gooseberry-San Jose scale Comstockaspis perniciosa Pest description and crop damage San Jose scale can be differentiated from other scale insects by the scale (shell) that covers the adult females. The scale is hard, gray to black, and cone-sh ...