Modern preparations give amazing results if applied in time. However, the moth is radically different from the rest of the pests of the garden : during the summer season, all stages of its development intersect, and each of them is struggling with different means.
The pest of the apple moth is how to recognize it?
It is much easier to deal with the attack of insects, when their number is small and the problem only seemed from afar. In the butterfly moth issue, everything complicates its nightlife. Before you look for the right remedy for the fruit mullet on the apple tree, you should learn to recognize the enemy. During the entire summer period and part of September, three stages of insect development can be detected on the site:
- the first to appear on the site is an inconspicuous apple-tree butterfly with dark gray wings of large size and small back browns;
- then to know about themselves will give small caterpillars with a white body and a black head;
- As the body grows, the caterpillar becomes pink, the head becomes brown.
The main problem is that an inexperienced gardener tracks only the first generation of butterflies, carefully processes the garden, and then forgets about the problem. However, in warm regions caterpillars pupate and give the second generation of butterflies, and after the appearance of new caterpillars, the real nightmare of a gardener begins: they destroy the ripe harvest of early varieties and still green apples in late varieties. The simplest way to understand that the apple moth is - use pheromone traps. If a week there gather from five insects, it's time to start work.
Fruit jelly on the apple tree - methods of struggle
In the protection of the garden there are always two camps: some gardeners do not regret anything and immediately resort to the help of the chemical industry, the second camp consists of adherents of sparing methods. It is difficult to say in which case we will damage the garden more if the efficiency leaves much to be desired. The struggle with the fruit mullet on the apple tree is reduced to catching butterflies, processing clutches and caterpillars.
Fruit Trap Trap
With the beginning of flowering of early varieties, the years of the first butterflies begin, but before the end of it, the second generation will begin. This point the gardener misses in matters of saving the harvest. The catch of the apple moth has two sides:
- it is cheap and absolutely safe for human health option of saving fruits, works quite effectively, in parallel helps to get rid of some more pests of the garden;
- but this salvation is only in conditions when it is possible to constantly monitor the trees, some traps require replacement after the precipitation, in the hottest regions there is a risk of overheating the tree bark, when it comes to belts.
There are several fundamentally different approaches to catching insects:
- When there are no offspring, there are no problems with the harvest. Males begin their years with the beginning of flowering, females will appear closer to its end. The task is to place the pheromone traps around the site from the fletcher and catch the maximum number of males. Two or three years of painstaking fishing will definitely yield results. Efficiency increases when the trap is located at 3/4 the height of the tree.
- Independently you can prepare homemade kvass and pour it on cans, which are then weighed on the branches. It uses a fermentation aroma that literally attracts an apple pest. With the advent of May or the beginning of flowering in each bank for a night going up to a dozen individuals.
- Traps use the sensitivity of insects to light. Pour the paste into the zinc pails. When light reflects, the apple moth flies into the bucket, fighting off its walls, get into the paste.
How to treat apple trees from moth?
When the garden is very large, or you are raiding on the dacha, drugs are much more effective in getting rid of apple-fruit moth. In this situation, there are two ways: to use the powerful power of chemical producers, or to resort to the latest biological developments. Insecticides are good in their performance, but the slightest overdose turns a useful fruit into a poison.
Among the insecticides, their effectiveness was proved by Atom, Ditoks, Binom, Tod, Fufanon. They work for destruction from the moment they leave the egg and until they appear in the fruit. However, one should not forget that excessive use can cause an outbreak of mite multiplication. An alternative is the biological preparation " Fitoverm ", which can be used during periods of heat without fear of causing a tick outbreak. Well-proven "Lepidotsid" and "Bitoksibatsillinom".
When to process trees from a moth?
Spray the drugs need in the period when the mass emergence of caterpillars begins. The time when you need to spray from the apple moth is measured from the peak of summer butterflies: in 8-12 days you can safely cultivate the garden. This applies to drugs of all groups. Biological weapons require repeated application every two weeks. It is most effective to use insecticides for the first time, then to struggle till the end of the season with the help of biological means.