Fighting a leaf roller

At the end of spring, during flowering of trees and bud blossoming, you can see that the leaves are twisted into a tube or strongly deformed - this is the work of a leaf roller. This pest can catch both fruit and wild shrubs and trees and inflict great damage on agriculture. The struggle with the leaf-caterpillar caterpillar in the garden is the task of every gardener who wants to save crops and plants.

How to get rid of a leaf roller?

In order to start active activities, it is necessary to learn about the habits of the insect and its harm to garden inhabitants. The leaf crusher injures the plants - twists the leaves and flowers and eats them in the caterpillar stage, which then turns into a moth. But this does not mean that having received wings, the butterfly becomes less dangerous, because for the whole summer it manages to make several new egg clutches, which will again become leaf-eating insects.

The correct remedy for leaf rollers is one - a tireless control over planting, and processing them with chemical preparations that are divided into aggressive (pyrethroids) and medium strength (insecticides).

Carry out the treatment as early as possible - in the early spring, with Prefilaktin, as soon as the temperature rises above 5 ° C. This means is able to destroy the larvae, ready already for awakening.

If time is lost, and the kidneys are in the so-called stage of the green cone, before the buds blossom, then more serious drugs are used:

The main thing, with late-spring processing - that the air warmed up not below 10 ° С. In the summer, when caterpillars have already wrapped themselves in foliage and have covered their dwellings with cobwebs, they will be defeated only with the help of highly toxic agents, although their use is very dangerous, since penetrates into the fruit. But if the invasion of caterpillars is large and endangered by the survival of the garden, then it should be applied:

  1. "Ivanhoe".
  2. "Tarzan".
  3. "Fastak".
  4. "Gladiator".
  5. "Sensei".
  6. "Zeon."
  7. "Karate".