Colorado beetle - the worst enemy of the gardeners who are growing up on ridges and in fields potatoes. This striped black-and-white wrecker is capable to reduce productivity of culture, to eat around young leaves literally to streak. And chemicals it is difficult to etch gluttonous orange larvae - they have high different poisons resistance. How then to struggle with Colorado beetle on potatoes? There is a solution - to call to the aid national and mechanical ways.
Use of national methods for extermination of the colorad is quite justified - many summer residents successfully collect larvae and adult individuals manually, having covered by banks and the cut-off plastic bottles. Attract to this simple mechanical method even children, coming to ridges or the blossoming potato borovka all family. However experienced potato breeders know also other tricks helping to struggle with the gluttonous striped invader.
7 budgetary ways and means are given below how to struggle with Colorado beetle on potatoes without use of expensive and harmful chemicals.
Gathering of colorad manually
Method this though tiresome, long, but effective. It is necessary to begin collecting larvae at emergence stage on bottom side of potato leaves of orange eggs. Red larvae it is necessary to collect if not daily then every other day, following several rules:
- it is more convenient to put gluttonous conquerors in wide bucket, substituting it under branch;
- that larvae were not chosen, in capacity it is necessary to pour strong soap or salt solution;
- it is impossible to leave the crushed striped bugs on ridges and leaves - they can survive;
- collecting should be carried out to dry sunny weather.
Use of self-made traps
This method rather effective, besides will not cost pretty penny. Algorithm of creation of trap for Colorado beetles and larvae idle time:
- On bottom it is necessary to put several cut potatoes in one-liter jar or old pan.
- Capacity should be prikopat between ranks on ridge or borovka in the field.
- Edges banks need to be greased with potato juice.
Bugs will fall in bank and will not be able to get out from there. Simpler trap - to put in the fall on ridges potato tops of vegetable in accurate small groups after harvesting. Bugs will come crawling for ""lunch"", it will only be necessary to destroy them, having kindled fire in windless weather.
Mustard from Colorado beetle
Mustard as cheap repellent will help to frighten off striped bugs from potato borovk and ridges. Especially it is not loved by orange-red larvae. From powder prepare special solution, mixing 100 g of mustard, 100 ml of vinegar and 10 l of water. If desired vinegar can be replaced with shaving of laundry soap.
Spray with solution of times a week potatoes, using spray, satchel or the simple broom dipped into bucket. It is possible just to plant in the spring mustard seeds on row-spacings, to mow after zatsvetaniye. It will help even with fight against the wireworm.
Onions and garlic against gluttonous larvae
If you do not know any more, than to process potatoes from Colorado beetle, taste normal onions and garlic (entirely or using only peel). Here the checked recipes for extermination of the wrecker.
- To fill in 10 l of water of 200 g of onions peel and 200 g of gruel from pounded garlic Zubkov, to cook 2 hours in pan. Then to pour 200 g of rustic tobacco. Broth through gauze to filter, dilute 10 more l of water, having added 20 ml of liquid laundry soap.
- In 3-liter jar on third to fill onions peel, to fill in with warm water. To remove in dark sarayka or the storeroom for about 2 days. To filter through grid, to fill in with the same volume of water, to add cap of liquid laundry soap (10 ml).
Sprayings by these house solutions should be carried out when larvae just appear to manage to destroy all of them.
Celandine from Colorado beetle
The herb under the familiar name celandine is capable to clear in only 2 weeks shoots and landings of potatoes of the striped wrecker. It is possible to struggle with Colorado beetle both solution, and the broken grass bunches.
- To mow celandine, to decompose in the form of mulch under each potato bush. After drying to replace grass fresh, watching that bunches did not pereprevat.
- To fill in the fresh or slightly dried stalks of celandine in bucket with water, 15 minutes to take on fire, then to cool broth, to filter. To pour out 500 ml of liquid in bucket with water, to spray potatoes on beds.
White clover for fight against the striped wrecker
Fight against Colorado beetle folk remedies can be effective if to plant around ridges, the field or even between borovk white long-term clover. This plant enriches the soil with nitrogen what very much not to be pleasant to the overseas gluttonous wrecker. Frightens off clover and may-bugs, their larvae. Similar effect also cruciferous cultures - cabbage, colza have.
Sawdust for the aid to gardeners
Birch or pine sawdust, fragrant excelsior – reliable protection of potato against Colorado beetle. It is necessary to fill up with sawdust the earth in the manner of mulch, updating layer 2-3 times a month.
If national ways do not help with fight against the wrecker, it is possible to apply also the chemical medicines in assortment offered by various shops and the garden centers.