Box beetles and gooseberries?

wellused

I'm not sure if the name is correct but they are beetles with a box like appearance, I have noticed quite a few of them around my gooseberry bush but there doesn't seem to be any damage done to the leaves. Do these box beetles damage gooseberries do you know?

Mojisola

Can you identify it from here -
https://www.uksafari.com/beetles.htm

aggypanthus

Sounds like saw fly, its dormant underground all winter. I was told to move the plant and mulch to prevrnt any more emerging. Pick of any you can see

wellused

Yes just did a search and they are shield bugs apparently not a pest but there do seem to be quite a few around my gooseberry bush.

youngie

aggypanthus wrote: »

Sounds like saw fly, its dormant underground all winter. I was told to move the plant and mulch to prevrnt any more emerging. Pick of any you can see

saw fly lava look like small caterpillars and will strip a gooseberry bus of all it leaves and bark

Farway

youngie wrote: »

saw fly lava look like small caterpillars and will strip a gooseberry bus of all it leaves and bark

However, research by RHS shows this does not reduce the crop, and I do not think they strip the bark, just soft leaves, they do not eat the fruit, but we do

Live & let live

lobbyludd

Farway wrote: »

However, research by RHS shows this does not reduce the crop, and I do not think they strip the bark, just soft leaves, they do not eat the fruit, but we do

Live & let live

however, a plant with all leaves stripped repeatedly over the season (which can happen overnight with a sawfly infestation, and they have multiple larval generations a year) will die. ask me how I know.