For sure most farmers are familiar with a cabbage butterfly - a white fluttering pest. And not an adult, but her offspring, is dangerous. After laying eggs, voracious caterpillars hatch out of them, which in a very short time are able to turn beautiful smooth cabbage leaves into a lace mesh. How to destroy the butterfly cabbage and its larvae to protect the crop - you will learn from our article.
What is harmful butterfly cabbage?
An adult butterfly is an insect with a wingspan of 55-60 cm. The eggs of the cabbage are of a lemon yellow color, a bottle-shaped form. They can be attached on the underside of the sheet. The hatched caterpillars grow 4 cm in length as they grow up. They are painted yellow-green with short bristles, and on their sides there are 2 bright yellow bands.
Caterpillar butterfly cabbage stalks cabbage leaves from below. In addition to cabbage, there are many more things that butterfly butterflies eat: mustard, trout, turnip, rape and other cabbage plants.
In the second half of the summer, the caterpillars of the cabbage plant begin to work: they eat cabbage leaves, and if there are many individuals, they can destroy the flesh of the head and the entire head.
Methods of combating cabbage
The struggle with the cabbage butterfly and its caterpillars should include preventive and radical measures. Prevention includes the timely cleaning of cabbage weeds to prevent the appearance of clutches on them.
From the beginning of the summer, you need to carefully inspect the cabbage leaves, and when detecting eggs, destroy them, crushing them directly on the sheet. Similarly, to arrive with the found caterpillars. Young, barely hatched caterpillars are easier to find, because they sit in place, while adults creep, complicating the process of collecting them.
Help in the fight against caterpillars attracted to the garden useful insects and birds, as well as bees that will compete with butterflies for nectar. They can be attracted with the help of floral plants.
But these efforts alone are not enough to drive out butterflies and caterpillars. If you find on the site of these pests, you need to immediately begin using the poisons. Most of all, what are butterfly butterflies afraid of
The drug "Kinmiks" is used to fight with a butterfly cabbage, and not only with it. The solution must be treated with both sides of the sheet in the morning or evening in windless weather. Thus it is necessary to work in protective clothing, since the drug is dangerous for humans.
"Fitoverm" - another effective tool. Already after 6 hours after treatment insects will recede from cabbage. Work with the drug is also recommended in a protective suit.