How to get rid of midges in window plants

How to get rid of midges in window plants

Practically in each apartment there are house flowers. They improve the room, oxygenate air, are pleasing to the eye. However together with considerable positive emotions from communication with our green friends, it is necessary to save them from uninvited guests sometimes. Very often flower growers meet such unpleasant situation as the appeared midges in window plants. The question is born that needs to be done: whether it is possible to get rid of ill-fated wreckers or it is better to throw out flowers together with flowerpot?

It is required to you

  • - solutions - the Thunder-2, Aktellik, Agravertin, Aktara, Bazudin, Inta-vir, Kinmix, Carbophos, Fitover
  • - dichlorvos - Raid, Neo, Raptor
  • - orange peel
  • - chalk from cockroaches
  • - soap solution
  • - potassium permanganate solution
  • - garlic

Instruction

1. Why in flowers midges are got? Cultivation of house plants - occupation not lung, the attentiveness, care and, of course, love for flowers are required here. Before beginning to part flowers, it is necessary to answer important questions: whether you will periodically look after them (to replace, water, fertilize) or for this purpose you are too busy? If you have answered in the affirmative and want to create cosiness in the apartment by means of green friends, then you have to understand that sooner or later you will have problems with midges. Midges use the earth of window plants for postponement of the larvae. Further they will eat roots of flowers that will cause irreversible process of rotting and at the same time slow withering of plants. If you have seen over window plants of midges, then do not hurry to leave the green friend. It is necessary to be defined that could influence their emergence. The most widespread cases: • open window - the flying mosquitoes could just fly to you home. Having found damp soil, they with pleasure will begin to live in flower flowerpot; • overwetting of the soil - most of hostesses in hot season is often abundant water plant, believing that it dries up. As a result water stands, and presence of excess moisture turns into suitable climate for appearance of the ill-fated wreckers; • not disinfected soil – sometimes in soil there are pieces of deciduous humus that says that in soil all processes of rotting are not completed, it is one of important features of low-quality soil. Such earth becomes fine source for postponement by wreckers of larvae.

2. Species of midges on tsvetakhvozniknuvshy wreckers can be revealed with the naked eye. The most widespread of them are white midges (nogokhvostik or poruda). They can be noticed at foot of flowerpot or on the surface of the filled-in soil. Poruda happen the small size (approximately 0.2-1mm) mostly yellowish-brown or white color. They are very active, constantly jump according to sheets of plants. The larvae postponed by them can cause irreparable harm to the root system of house plant. On window plants the white midges appear mainly in the early spring or in the winter when from earth surface moisture not really quickly evaporates.

3. Except white wreckers also black midges can be got. Small midges which annoyingly fly over green plantings are Stsiarida. If you have noticed in soil of translucent worms 2-5 mm long. with black dot on the head, it they. Such midges are absolutely harmless to the person, but bring great discomfort as fly on all house, constantly getting to cups with tea and plates with food. And here to soil and plant of stsiarida are very dangerous. The high number of larvae can cause damage of root system of flower and also make the earth more dense and air-tight. In flowers the black midges can appear if you prefer to fertilize plants folk remedies, such as the rotted-through leaves, tea tea leaves or other organic chemistry. It is also possible to bring wreckers if to use not disinfected soil for change of flowers.

4. How to get rid of midges in flowers? In case midges in flowers have appeared recently, then you have good chance to get rid of them quickly, without having spent a lot of money. There is a lot of ways how to remove persuasive stsiarid and nogokhvostik - since chemical aerosols and ending folk remedies.

5. Chemical methods of fight against midges and their larvae: • solutions - the Thunder-2, Aktellik, Agravertin, Aktara, Bazudin, Inta-vir, Kinmix, Carbophos, Fitoverm; • dichlorvos - Raid, Neo, Raptor. Universal remedy which instantly kills black and white midges. Before use of chemical medicines it is important to study the instruction as each type of solution has the features, beginning from ratio of solution and water and ending temperature of the added liquid. After the carried-out processing it is necessary not to water at least three days flower at all. During the work with chemicals it is important to observe security measures. Processing needs to be carried out only in respirator, rubber gloves, dressing gown and goggles.

6. Folk remedies for fight against midges: As for folk remedies, they also have the right for existence. They are distinguished by safety, at the same time you always have all necessary substances near at hand. There are several easy ways which will allow to bring out of your flowers of small midges.1. Strew soil with wood ashes. Importunate wreckers will be gone almost at once, besides ashes are excellent fertilizer; 2. Cut off peel from orange then thrust it in soil; 3. Arrange 4 matches sulfur down in flowerpot and water the soil. Every other day check matches - if sulfur was gone, thrust new. In week of larva and also adult individuals of wreckers, will die; 4. Cut three garlic gloves lengthways and decompose on all flowerpot; 5. On all surface of pot scatter pounded chalk from cockroaches. It is possible to fill shaving directly on soil and to draw several hyphens on the pot; 6. Periodically water houseplants with weak soap solution; 7. Hang up velcro near flowerpot with plant that adult individuals gathered on it; 8. Water the struck soil with weak solution of potassium permanganate. But here it is necessary to be accurate because if accidentally go too far in concentrate, then it is possible to burn the root system of plant irrevocably; 9. Crush 3 heads of garlic in the blender and fill in them with water liter. In four days filter mix. Spray with garlic solution plant and water soil in flowerpot.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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