How to deal with the May beetles?

Probably everyone saw huge flocks of birds on the field, which had just been plowed. Birds are attracted here by various larvae in the earth, most of all they like caterpillars with thick belly, having a yellowish white color. This is the May beetle larvae - pests of crops that have been in the soil for almost four years. Most of them near forests and groves. Before we talk about how to deal with the May bugs, we learn more about them.

There are several species of these insects, the most harmful for household plots is the western beetle, or, as it is also called, the Khrushchev. It has a yellow-brown coloration of the back and a black breast, a mustache with a mace of 6-7 plates. The beetle reaches a length of three centimeters in length. His eggs are oval white.

May beetles eat vegetable plants, leaves of fruit trees and shrubs, causing them great harm, and their larvae spoil the roots of trees, bushes, berry bushes and potato tubers. How to deal with the May beetles? After all, they cause huge damage to agricultural plantations. And how harmful is the larva of the May bug, how to deal with it?

To answer these questions, you need to have a certain idea of the development of this insect.

With the onset of spring (when the fruit trees begin to bloom and the soil temperature warms to about ten degrees), May beetles fly from the wintering grounds. From April to June they feed on leaves and ovaries of trees, then females begin to lay eggs in the ground. In July larvae of the beetle, which live in the earth for several years, appear. At first they feed on humus, then rise closer to the surface of the soil and begin to eat roots of plants, rapidly increasing in size.

Wintering larvae go deeper, next spring they come to the surface of the earth and begin to eat almost all the vegetation. At a time when the larvae reach a length of almost seven centimeters, they cause irreparable damage to crops. That is why it is important to know how to deal with the May bugs and their larvae. Only for the third winter, the grubs of the Khrushchev go to a depth of one meter and pupate. In the same winter, from the pupae, go out beetles, which fly out in the spring to trees and bushes.

So, how to deal with the May beetles and their terribly harmful larvae?

There are several folk ways to combat these pests. You can shake the beetles themselves into kerosene and burn, use light traps. To destroy the eggs of the bush, you should regularly loosen the soil - they do not like it. You can pour under the trees bleach, a decoction of onions and garlic, a solution of iodine. Larvae of the May beetle can not exist near mustard, radish, radishes and cabbage, so it is worthwhile planting these crops near fruit trees and bushes.

How to deal with beetles in May with chemicals? To achieve good results in this irreconcilable struggle, you can use the Russian chemicals "Aktara", "Pochin", "Zemlin", the Ukrainian antichrugs and the drug from Switzerland "Bazudin".