Raspberry beetle
The raspberry beetle is a small beetle that loves raspberries as much as you do. It finds raspberry flowers by looking and smelling, and lays its eggs on them. Its little larvae then grow up inside the berries.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
One mother beetle can lay up to 120 eggs.
Berries with larvae inside stay small, turn pale and shrivel.
Because the larvae hide inside the berries, birds and other hunters rarely find them.
The beetles spend the winter in the soil under the raspberry bushes.
Gardeners sometimes catch them with white sticky traps.
Most asked questions about Raspberry beetle
?What does the raspberry beetle eat?
Raspberry flowers and leaves. Its larvae eat the berries from inside.
?Is there a worm in my raspberry?
It may be a raspberry beetle larva. It is harmless, but most people prefer to pick it out.
?Does the raspberry beetle eat blackberries too?
Yes. It also likes blackberries and loganberries.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Byturus tomentosus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Byturidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Byturidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Raspberry beetle (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Nikolai Bulykin. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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