The pests of strawberries and the fight against them

A perennial strawberry plant belongs to one of the most favorite berries in the garden areas. But sometimes various diseases can significantly spoil its harvest. For gardeners, faced with this problem, the actual question becomes: what pests hit strawberries and what is the fight against them?

Garden strawberry - diseases and pests

Garden strawberries can suffer from such common diseases:

1. Withering . It can be caused by insufficient watering or rooting of the bear's roots.
2. Desiccation as a result of diseases : powdery mildew, gray rot, blotchiness, fungal diseases. If only a few bushes are hit, they are scooped out and burned. If a larger area is affected, fungicides are treated.
3. Rotting . The cause is gray or black rot, resulting from excessive moisture or fungi. This can be from poor ventilation and close placement of bushes. Affected fruits are removed, since the appearance of the ovary strawberries are mulched with sawdust.
4. Yellowing . This may be due to a lack of nitrogen or magnesium. It is necessary to introduce appropriate fertilizers.

The main pests of strawberries are:

1. Slugs are very serious pests, capable of causing significant damage to the crop or completely destroying it.
2. Weevils. They hibernate between clods of earth or fallen leaves, and in the spring lay eggs in the buds of strawberries. In this weevil bites the stem under the bud.
3. Strawberry leaf beetle - destroys the leaves of the plant.
4. May beetle or horsetail - also eats leaves and lays the larvae biting roots of the plant.
5. Spiderweb and strawberry mites - feed on the juice of the leaves of the strawberry.
6. Nematodes - lead to thickening and shortening of the kidneys and peduncles.

How to get rid of pests on strawberries?

As preventive measures, spring and autumn treatment of strawberries from diseases and pests with fungicides is carried out. This will help prevent the development of diseases and plant damage by harmful insects.

Protection of strawberries from pests is carried out in the following ways:

1. To get rid of the bear , when planting strawberries in a hole, insecticides are laid. If this preventive measure has not been taken, then organize a cluster of medvedok in trap holes up to a depth of 50 cm. They are partially filled with horse manure (not completely banned) and covered with earth. The bears collect in pits, and at the end of autumn the pests are destroyed.
2. To exclude the appearance of slugs, it is recommended to dig a groove around the site and fill it with ashes, lime, tobacco or ground pepper. Slugs can not penetrate this barrier. If they did appear, they could be destroyed by potassium salt or superphosphate, which are scattered over the site at night. Another way is to create the effect of "steam room" by covering the beds with a transparent film. This will lead to the death of pests.
3. Effective means for the destruction of weevils are carbofos, aktellik, metaphos, corsair. They process strawberries no later than a week before flowering. Also, they are processed in the spring and autumn by gold or aktellikom. These drugs will help in the fight against leaf beetles.
4. With Khrushchy fighting by mechanical methods, shaking them in the morning and evening. Get rid of the larvae will help infusion of onion husk. The drug "Nemabakt" is very effective from larvae.
5. To get rid of ticks, use carbofos, phosphamid, metaphos, which the leaves are treated with when they start to grow. Also, a 65-degree light pink solution of potassium permanganate, which is watered with strawberries in the evening.
6. From nematodes strawberries are subjected to heat treatment, for which the seedlings before planting are lowered for 15 minutes into hot water.

Carrying out the necessary measures will help you effectively combat pests that damage strawberries.