Raspberries: Flowers or buds are physically damaged (cut buds, chewed, holes, etc.)

Tarnished Plant Bugs and Strawberry bud weevils may cause various types of physical damage to raspberry buds and flowers.

Tarnished Plant Bug (TPB) feeding is a common cause for crumbly, misshapen fruit. TPB adults and nymphs (Lygus lineolaris) feed on buds and flowers. They also damage developing fruit.

Unripe raspberry with an insect sitting on drupelets. Insect resembles a stinkbug nymph, with an obovoid body attached to a triangular head. Insect is mostly green, but has two black sections on its back where wings might be. Insect has small, black, circular eyes. Insect is the size of 3 raspberry drupelets. — Tarnished plant bug (*Lygus lineolaris*) nymph on unripe raspberry.

Ripe raspberry with an insect sitting on drupelets. Insect is mostly brown, with a trapezoid-shaped body. The abdomen has three golden-yellow triangle-shaped marks, two near the base of the wings, and one at the junction of the thorax and the abdomen. Insect has a small head and L-shaped brown antenna. — Tarnished plant bug (*Lygus lineolaris*) adult on raspberry.

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Strawberry bud weevil (Anthonomus signatus) or clipper affects raspberries, as well as strawberries and blueberries.

Hand with extremely small black insect. Insect is several millimeters long and has a distinctive, long, downward-curved mouthpart. — Strawberry bud weevil (*Anthonomus signatus*) adult.

Bud weevils cut off buds in early spring, sometimes causing serious losses in fruit production. Dangling buds or small round holes in flower petals are indication of Clipper/Bud Weevil damage.

Raspberry flower cluster. One bud is dangling from the stem. The bud is still attached, but most of the stem is severed. — Strawberry bud weevil (*Anthonomus signatus*) damage on raspberry.

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