Ants on the apple tree – how to eliminate the threat tothe garden? What threatens the attack of ants on an apple tree, whether there are an apple treeuseful ants?

Чт, 22 июн 2017 Автор: Евгений
Grammatikati

With the fact that these insects benefit, nobody argues
will, but you can not allow them to “manage”! If divorced
black ants, they will breed on garden plants aphid
therefore, their numbers must be limited.

Ants who have chosen the apple tree, can greatly reduce the harvest or
completely ruin the tree. Mostly they start up during the spring
sap flow, or during the ripening season. Young shoots and
apples, for them one of the favorite delicacies. But the worst thing for
tree, if with the help of ants, on the leaves of an apple tree will start aphid –
these are peculiar “cows” of ants, giving them sweet discharge.
To prevent this trouble, you need reliable methods
effective against both evils.

Contents

Ants on the apple tree – drugs and folk drugs

In the forest, the activity of these insects is of paramount importance,
they are peculiar orderlies, but in the garden their activities are necessary
limit, because in addition to the benefits they can cause considerable harm.
They can damage weak shoots, can damage a tree,
with a strong spread can ruin the crop.

Good or bad?

If you’re on an apple tree (whether young or old), even discovered
a small number of ants, it is urgently necessary to do something.
The appearance of ants – signals the imminent appearance of aphids, they
damage fruit and young buds. In addition, the food ants
use the remains of dead aphids, fruit juice. They breed aphids,
in winter, the larvae harbor them from the cold, and with the onset of heat again
take out their feed. With a large infestation of a tree with ants,
for sure in a few weeks you will find aphid.

IMPORTANT! If you find red ants, then do not worry
worth, they are useful in the garden, exterminating pests, do not breed aphids and
destroy black ants.

Spring Protection

The timing of the appearance of ants in the trees, combined with swelling
buds or it occurs in autumn, during the ripening of the crop. In the spring
treated twice, from ants and pests – before swelling
buds and the formation of buds (before flowering). Process
trees in the spring, not only from the ants, at the same time
carry out the treatment of bacterial infections. To do this, use
3-4% solutions of ferrous sulfate. During the formation of the buds,
Apple tree is treated with mushrooms 1-2% Bordeaux mixture. As
fungicides and insecticides use the following compounds:

• Malathion – 1%;

• Rate – 0.15-0.2%;

• Topaz – 0.3-0.4%;

• Chlorofos – 0.3%;

• Decis – 0.5-0.6.

Fight against ants

Various scare devices, it is better to place in areas
where there are so few ants, for example, on still healthy apple trees, with
the first detection of pests or weakly affected trees. On
trails and in places of large concentrations, it is better to use traps,
intended for ants, animals will be safe and
other insects will not be affected.

Onродные способы

The people have long known ways to help kill ants
on an apple tree without damaging the future harvest and the tree itself:

1. One of the effective ways to exterminate insects is
Composition, mixed from black soap, carbolic and kerosene. Soap and
carbolic acid destroy ants, and kerosene additionally them
scares. To prepare you need to take 10 tbsp. kerosene,
mix it with 30 g of carbolic acid and add 4 pieces of black soap there,
all diluted in 10 liters of water. The solution is used for spraying.
ant heaps, or they are treated with the trunk and crown of a tree. After 2-3
treatments insects leave the tree;

2. You can limit the path for insects, which in time will force
them to leave this territory. Barrel smeared with tar in the form of a ring in
a few centimeters from the ground. The smell of tar is unpleasant for
ants;

3. It is possible to protect a tree from invasion, by means of metal
rings. It must be worn tightly on the trunk of the tree so that the ants
could not crawl under it;

4. The easiest way to use special glue, they cover
base of the trunk. Before this operation, preferably the trunk is tight
Wrap a rope or cloth so that there are no gaps. Winding needed
also to prevent glue from falling on the barrel;

5. On ветви яблони подвязывают емкости со сладкой водой, верхний
edge needs to be coated with jam or syrup;

6. Ants in an apple tree are most dangerous if
make a nest in the roots. Destroy their quicklime, it
sprinkle insect dwellings and water well. Thereafter
wormwood can be laid out near the tree, the smell of this plant will scare away
pests;

7. A tree trunk is coated with a mixture of soot and linseed oil, or
You can put on him a snare belt, saturated with a sticky mixture;

8. To scare away ants from a tree, they are planted around it.
onions, the smell of this culture repels insects.

The principle of operation of traps for ants, consists not only in
the destruction of a single insect, it is also important that he did not have time
die pest brings poison inside anthill so dies
more insects. Contact insecticides exterminate exclusively
worker ants.

In the hollow or roots

If you find a hollow, no matter if there are ants in it or not,
you need to immediately remove the rotten wood from it and seal it up.
Extracted from the hollow dust, which may be insects,
Pour boiling water. Before sealing the hollow is treated with an Anteater or
similar means containing diazinon.

Inside the trunk or under the bark

If in such places ants were bred, it means that they crawled through
bark damage, and surely the wood on this site is rotting.
It is necessary to do, as when detecting a hollow.

ATTENTION! It is not advisable to use insecticides,
it is necessary to leave the way out for the ants, so it will be easier
exterminate. After all, the corpses of insects inside the tree, or under its bark
for sure they will not benefit, they will begin to decompose and worsen
wood condition.

Thereafter выполняют работы по:

1. Removal of damaged wood from the hollow or crack;

2. Treatment of damaged areas with antiseptic
funds;

3. Complete drying of voids;

4. Sealing injured places using foam,
wooden cork, garden pitch and other ways depending on
dimensions of the hollow.

Prevention methods

The presence of a skirt of foil on the barrel with a sharp edge – reliable
barrier for ants. It is only necessary to make sure that between the trunk
wood and material left no gap or gap. Firstly
perform the bark cleansing of dead bark and wood, spread it
clay or clay for a snug fit of the protective skirt.
The use of trap belts with adhesive coating, protects the tree
from the invasion of ants and the appearance of aphids. The belt is fixed on the trunk
apple trees, at a height of 60-80 cm from the soil surface, the trap is necessary
replace regularly.

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