Each gardener dreams of well-kept garden and rich harvest. But insects wreckers can not only spoil harvest, but also ruin garden completely. It is necessary to examine attentively trees and as soon as possible to begin to struggle with wreckers. It is possible to allocate main types of wreckers: plant louse, moth and fir seed moth.
The most dangerous wrecker of garden cultures is the plant louse. She damages fruit-trees and bushes. Plant louse and her larvae exhaust juice from leaves, as a result leaves are twisted, become covered by raid and dry up. The insect quickly grows and breeds therefore it is necessary to begin to fight against it at once as soon as have noticed the first signs of defeat.
Fight measures:
Removal of radical young growth and old bark, with the subsequent whitewashing by lime.
Tobacco infusion. The tobacco which is filled in with water to insist within a day. Later it is possible to spray the struck trees.
Onions peel. To add 200 g of peel of onions to bucket of the warmed-up water. To insist not less than 24 hours. Solution to filter and start spraying.
Soap solutions can be prepared both from laundry soap, and with addition of liquid soap. On 10 l of water it is necessary to take 300 g of economic or 125 ml of liquid soap. It is possible to add ashes, onions peel or 5 ml of kerosene to solution.
Potato tops of vegetable fresh or dry about 1 kg to crush and insist in water bucket about day. After to filter, it is possible to add 50 g of laundry soap.
Fruit moth – the small butterfly, the wrecker of apple-trees striking all tree. The moth is very prolific and capable to ruin garden for one season. Lives in web slots which begins to spin right after the wintering. Butterflies and larvae eat around all leaves before elimination of tree.
Fight measures:
Spraying of trees insecticides (Spinosad, Aversektin-S, etc.) before blooming of kidneys or after blossoming. The recommended temperature of application is not lower than +16 degrees. Burning of fallen leaves, cutting of cocoons. Repeated processing in the fall.
Fir seed moth - the butterfly leading nocturnalism therefore it is difficult to notice the beginning of infection. During the summer the butterfly removes two generations of larvae which can destroy more than a half of harvest. Larvae eat both fruits, and seeds inside. The fir seed moth strikes apple-tree, pear, plum, sweet cherry, apricot. Be attentive, stacking harvest on storage not to bring fir seed moth and to keep harvest for long time.
Fight measures:
Fight against fir seed moth should be begun in the early spring. It is necessary to carry out cutting of trees, to remove dry leaves and to feed up trees mineral fertilizers. To make spraying in three stages. Right after blossoming to spray trees with fosfororganichesky insecticides (Carbophos, Fozalon, Rovikurt, etc.). In two weeks the spraying should be repeated, but already other medicine as the fir seed moth is inclined to accustoming. To carry out the third spraying in 10 days. The best time for spraying after 19 hours and windless weather
You should not forget about natural natural predators. It is necessary to plant plants-nektaronosy for attraction of useful insects.
To prevent further appearance and distribution of wreckers, it is necessary to make in the fall cleaning of fallen leaves, to remove dry branches, to deeply dig over the soil, to make whitewashing by lime and to feed up trees.