How to prevent pest attack ongarden strawberries. The most insidious pests on strawberries

Ср, 20 июл 2016 Автор: Юлия Кривенко

Garden strawberries are constantly attacked by sucking and
gnawing pests. These are various insects that cause
great harm to the plant and reduce yields. Many of them are the most
dangerous and difficult to eradicate.

Common strawberry pests and control

Pest control begins in early spring and continues.
all season First of all, after melting snow
strawberry plantations from old leaves. Such prophylactic
cleaning can protect plants from insects. After all, under the old
Many pests and their larvae overwinter with leaves. After cleaning
It is recommended to burst the aisles and remove all the weeds that are
are also a source of infection. Exposed in the process
carrying out the procedure, the roots of the plant need to spud earth.

An effective method in the fight against pests and larvae is
heat treatment, which is carried out in the spring, after cleaning the beds.
Hot water, heated to a temperature of 70 degrees, is poured into
watering can and scalded it bushes. For good disinfection and improvement.
As a result, you can add manganese or copper sulfate to the water. Such
The procedure helps to get rid of strawberry nematode and tick.

Strawberry Nematode

Very dangerous pest of wild strawberry –
нематода
. This is a small worm that reaches about
0.5 mm. He lives in the axils of young leaves and strawberry buds. On
winter nematode hiding in the plant tissue. Peak worm activity
falls on the month of May, when the active growth of strawberries begins.
Re-nematode appears on the bushes in the fall.

For strawberry nematode there are characteristic
signs:

  • The plant ceases to grow, becomes dwarf.

  • Peduncles and strawberry buds thicken and shorten.

  • The leaves are deformed, darken, become brown in color and
    dry up.

Fruiting in nematode-affected bushes almost completely
missing. Identified plants need to be removed from the garden. On это
the place is not recommended to plant strawberries for 5 years.

The spread of the pest occurs with seedlings. To avoid
defeats need to carefully select planting material
harvest it only from healthy plants. Before landing all
strawberry seedlings must be processed. For this seedlings need
put in a container with hot water (about 50 degrees) and stand
there is 15-20 minutes. This procedure can be carried out only if
the plant is at rest.

Important! When processing water should get on
all parts of the plant!

Strawberry Mite

This pest has very small sizes. Insect winters in
hearts of bushes. From early spring, the tick comes to the surface
young leaves. Activity seen since May.

Recognizing the affected bushes is easy. Young leaves amazed
tick, wrinkle, turn yellow ahead of time and die.
The harvest is shallow, the berries lose their taste.

Pest control is conducted from early spring immediately after the heat
handling landings. Re-spraying is carried out with a solution
karbofos. After harvesting the entire crop, repeat the treatment.
beds of the same drug.

As a preventive measure, it is advisable to mow the leaves
dugout garden immediately after fruiting. Together with the leaves will go
and the pest, its larvae. After this cleaning you need to loosen
row spacing. Before laying a new plantation of strawberries need
be sure to disinfect the seedlings.

Spider mite on strawberries

This pest lives on the back of a leaf, weaving it
gossamer The mite feeds on the plant sap. Insect winters
under fallen leaves in the top layer of soil. Infected plants
winter hardiness is greatly reduced.

Determine the affected bushes can be on the bright spots that
appear on the leaves. Далее листья желтеют и dry up. Onпадению
mite on strawberries contributes to dry hot weather. Massive
the invasion of spider mites is observed at the end of July – August.

As a fight with spider mites apply spraying
early spring colloidal sulfur. Treatments are carried out several times
changing drugs. Using the same drugs leads to
the development of immunity in insects.

For the prevention of planting strawberries in the fall
cleared of old leaves, regularly clean weeds.

Cicadas-pennitsa

This large insect belongs to the category of sucking. Larvae
pests live on strawberries in the foam which is for them
protection. Pennitsa eggs winter on strawberry leaves and weeds.
Therefore, to combat the pest remove all weeds and spend
spraying landings drug Fufanon. Spend processing need
be careful: use of the drug at the time of flowering and
fruiting is prohibited.

During this period, infusions are used against pennitsa
herbs:

  • tobacco;

  • marigolds;

  • Luke;

  • garlic.

Landing will be a good prevention against insects
marigolds along the beds with strawberries.

Slugs on strawberries

Great harm garden strawberries cause slugs, which are attacking
on the beds from May. Slugs are wielding only at night, therefore discover
pest quite difficult.

Mechanical tools can be used to combat slugs.
impact and compliance with agricultural practices. Everybody knows,
that slugs most often hit unkempt landings. On чистых
weed beds, where the row spacing is constantly loosening, pest
missing.

  • The first rule in dealing with slugs is keeping the beds clean.
    and the distance between the plants. Thickened landing attract
    pest.

  • Rule number 2 – slugs do not like rough surfaces, they have
    very tender belly. Based on this, it should be sprinkled copiously.
    inter-row peppers, mustard, slaked lime or blue vitriol.
    Contact with such a surface will cause the pest to burn.

  • After pruning the old leaves in the otplodilshego bush need to hold
    processing and destroy all remaining pests and larvae.

Strawberry weevil

This pest attacks not only strawberries, but also affects
other cultures. Weevil is a small grayish beetle that
It hurts strawberries.

If weevil weeds on the beds, the bushes are without buds,
as if they were cut off. Come across and hanging on a thin stalk
buds that are about to fall.

Strawberry weevil откладывается яйца внутрь бутонов,
nibbling stalks. Over time, there appears a caterpillar, which
gnaws a bud. In the middle of summer, the second generation appears.
weevil, which are operating on the leaves of strawberry, after which
go for the winter. The strawberry pest overwinters in the soil.

When fighting with a weevil, spraying aktellik is used,
which is carried out before flowering. With the reappearance of the pest
The treatment is carried out in the summer, before it leaves for the winter.

Experienced gardeners successfully fight weevil without using
chemical preparations. As a solution for spraying
use an infusion of mustard powder and wood ash. For this in 10
mustard powder, 3 kg of wood ash, 50 gr
laundry soap. Processing is carried out in the period of budding.

You can use biologically active drugs: Fitoverm,
Akarin. The treatment with these agents is carried out at the beginning of May.

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