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English names include common gooseberry sawfly [1] and imported currantworm. [2] This insect is best known as a pest of gooseberries. The larvae feed on the foliage of the plant, often defoliating it completely. [1] Like all sawflies, this species is a hymenopteran, not a true fly. This insect can produce three generations per year, with larvae ...
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation, also known as DPR or CDPR, is one of six boards and departments of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). The stated mission of DPR is "to protect human health and the environment by regulating pesticide sales and use, and by fostering reduced-risk pest management ."
In South Africa, cutworms attack the Cape gooseberry in seedbeds, red spiders in the field, and potato tuber moths near potato fields. Hares damage young plants, and birds eat the fruits. Mites, whiteflies and flea beetles can also be problematic. [2] Powdery mildew, soft brown scale, root rot and viruses may affect plants. [2]
Gooseberry most often refers to cultivated plants from two species of the genus Ribes: . Ribes uva-crispa native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia.; Ribes hirtellum, American gooseberry
Invasive species in California, the introduced species of fauna−animals and flora−plants that are established and have naturalized within California. Native plants and animals can become threatened endangered species from the spread of invasive species in natural habitats and/or developed areas (e.g. agriculture, transport, settlement).
Ribes amarum McClatchie – bitter gooseberry: California Ribes californicum Hook. & Arn. – Hillside gooseberry, California gooseberry, Monterey gooseberry: California Ribes cruentum Greene – shinyleaf currant, Oregon currant: California, Oregon Ribes leptosma (Coville) Fedde: California Ribes menziesii Pursh – Canyon gooseberry, Menzies ...
Cecidophyopsis ribis is an eriophyid mite which is best known for being a plant parasite, a pest of Ribes species, the genus that includes gooseberries and blackcurrants. It is commonly known as the blackcurrant gall mite or big bud mite. It feeds on the plants' buds, forming galls, and transmits a virus which causes blackcurrant reversion ...
Physalis (/ ˈ f aɪ s ə l ɪ s /, / f ɪ-/, / f aɪ ˈ s eɪ l ɪ s /, /-ˈ s æ-/, from φυσαλλίς : phusallís 'bladder' [3]) is a genus of approximately 75 to 90 flowering plants in the nightshade family (), which are native to the Americas and Australasia.