The beginning of the spring-summer season is always a joyful, but at the same time, troublesome event for every summer resident.
The onset of heat indicates the appearance of insects, some of which are useful for cultivated plants, while others only harm by devouring everything in its path.
One such pest is Chaferwhich adds a lot of trouble to any gardener.
Cockchafer is an insect rather large size reddish or black. Beetles breed at the end of spring, their larvae (crunches) mature for several years under the ground. Their jaws are already so strong that they are able to gnaw even old and powerful tree roots.
With the onset of heat from the pupa appears adult cockchaferThis happens in late August or early September. Adult hatching animals hibernate in the ground, and then again begin to resume offspring.
What harm does an insect do?
Main food May beetle are young shoots and leaves of the plant. The beetle is able to leave bare branches from a tree for a couple of months.
The beetle itself is not so scary for cultivated plants, most dangerous his larvae. They are almost invisible to the eye, because they are underground.
At the same time they destroy the root system of the plant, and it completely dies.
More often objects to attack beetle Trees such as cherry, apple, plum or sea buckthorn serve. The beetle also settles on currants and lilacs, birch and aspen. The larvae are not so selective in food and are able to destroy any plants that are only at the dacha.
What are the means against larvae of the May beetle?
Special means
Consider the chemical means of dealing with the May beetle and its larvae.
Zemlin
This remedy for the disease is an insecticide of contact and intestinal lesions. Also protects crops from soil pests. Active ingredient in the composition - diazinon at a dosage of 50 grams per kg. For protection flower plants the drug is sprayed on the surface of the earth in a dosage of 30 grams per 20 m2. Potatoes processed by adding 10-15 grams of the mixture to the wells during planting.
Nemabact
Biological product based nematode. Selectively destroys pest larvae. Maintains balance in the soil for two years.
The drug kills the larva within 1-3 days, penetrating into it. Used by with morning and evening watering in proportions 1: 100 at an ambient temperature of 10-26 degrees above zero, preferably at high humidity.
Fix it
The drug to combat soil pests. It has the same effect as Zemlin. It is packed up in the form of granules, due to which the protection time is increased.
Applied when planting and prevents the occurrence of pests throughout the summer season. After entering the soil begins to act within a day. Microgranules before planting just need to pour into the soil.
Aktara
Remedy for larvae of the May beetle. Active substance - thiamethoxam. It is an insecticide of contact and intestinal lesions. Available in granular form, can be applied directly to the soil or prepare a solution.
The result after the use of the drug occurs within an hour, and after a day, absolutely all the pests die. Applied any time of year and in any weather, humidity also does not affect the properties of the drug. Compatible with other insecticides and feed ingredients.
Antihrusch
The drug from the larvae of the May beetle.
In the composition of the active ingredients imidacloprid and bifenthrin. Available in suspension suspension form. To protect the potatoes should spray the plant before planting a solution of 10 ml. substances to 5-10 liters of water. That should be enough for 1 acres of land.
For protection cabbage and tomato 10 ml solution is made. substances on 3 liters. water, before planting rhizomes soaked in solution for 1 hour, the remaining liquid is diluted in 10 liters. water and used for irrigation.
For protection fruit trees 10 ml solution is prepared. substances on 5 l. water (enough for 0.2 weave), the solution should be abundantly watered at the root. Saplings of simple trees are also processed under the root of a solution of 10 ml. substances on 3 liters. water.
Basudin
Another drug for the disease is insecticide, which kills soil pests by contact, intestinal and translaminar.
Active substance - diazinon. Possesses long protection of cultures against insects. 30 grams of substance is enough for processing 20 m2.
Hazard class - 3, not phytotoxic, but dangerous for fish, cannot be allowed hit of a preparation in reservoirs.
Available in the form of granules. To evenly make the drug in the soil, you should prepare a liter jar, cover it with ¾ sand, add Bazudin there and mix.
Before landing potato is added to the hole (15 g. per 10 m2), to protect the cabbage the surface of the soil is treated (10 g. per 10 m2), flower cultures processed similarly to potatoes (15 gr. At 10m2)
Drug Vallar
Insecticide of organophosphorus compounds of systemic and contact-intestinal exposure.
- Form release - water-soluble granules.
- The chemical composition of the drug - the main component - diazinon. Concentration is 40 g / kg.
- Mechanism of action. The drug after treatment of the roots spreads to all plant cells. The larva, eating it, consumes and the drug, and then dies.
- Terms of use. Vallar from grubs used only by root method, put on the plant itself is not recommended.
- Hazard class - 3 class.
- The recipe of preparation of solution: 8 grams of the drug should be diluted in 1 liter of water, and then dipped there roots.
- Mode of application. Saplings plants dip their roots in the prepared solution. After 25 days, the roots are re-processed by the drug per 50 grams per 10 square meters, then planted in the soil.
Popular methods of dealing with the beetle
Effective will be the fight with Khrushchev folk remedies. The old way of catching beetle is shaking them off the trees. The procedure should be carried out in the morning or evening hours. Fallen from a tree individuals collected to females could not postpone laying, and destroy.
You can use to get rid of the beetle birds. Just set them on a certain plant with the help of cereals or any other food, you can also hang nesting boxes or start chickens.
Dig a hole, put a basin in it, the edges of which will be smeared with something sticky. Beetles are stuck and can not get out.
Hang a white sheet on a rope and highlight it. bright light. Such a trap will attract males of the May beetle, they will begin to crawl below the sheets and stir in the grass. It remains only to collect them in a separate container and destroy. On females This trap does not work.
Traditional recipes against the larvae of Khrushchev
How to kill the Maybot larva? The most popular, but time-consuming way to get rid of the larvae of the May beetle is their mechanical gathering. In spring, when the earth begins to warm enough, the larvae rise higher in heat and moisture. You can find them at a depth of 10-20 cm. All the larvae can not be collected, and digging the ground - not such a useful process for farming.
To combat the grubs of the Maybug with folk remedies, sow the spot lupine. Next to the lupine weeds do not grow, which means the larvae will have nothing to eat, so they will die.
Sow the area under the plant white clover. Nitrogen, which will be synthesized by bacteria found in the roots of clover, will make the soil uninhabitable for the larvae, but fertile for plant growth.
You can save currants and strawberries by spraying onion peel solution. 100 grams of husk insist in 10 liters of water for 5 days. The tincture is diluted in proportions of 1: 1 and sprayed on the affected plants and the ground beneath them.
Prevention of the appearance of beetles on the site
Nothing will protect better from a pest than timely prevention.
In the case of spring digging, you can add a little to it. bleach or a chlorine-containing drug, it will scare away the beetles.
You can save the strawberries with a solution liquid ammonia (half tbsp per 10 liters of water).
May beetle - a dangerous pest for any plant.
Should start the fight immediately with him, otherwise his larvae in a few moments will destroy all the works.
When processing from beetle larvae more efficient the total will help chemicals in conjunction with traditional methods.
