How to deal with whiteflies on seedlings and an adult plant?

Whitefly - a pest of garden plants, can affect both adult specimens and young seedlings. This harmful little butterfly feeds on their juice. Externally, the insect looks like a white moth, but much less. The adult is only 2 mm in length, very fond of settling in greenhouses (it is not without reason that it is called the whitefly), but can also live on indoor plants. This tiny butterfly is difficult to notice externally, it lives on the underside of the leaf. But it is up to the plant to touch, as insects fly away at once, It looks like a dust cloud.

Symptoms of plant damage

Let's figure out how to deal with whiteflies in order. To understand this, you need to know what the affected plant looks like. As mentioned above, if you lightly touch the leaf, a cloud appears around it from a large number of very small butterflies. On the damaged leaves from the underside, a sticky substance is formed, in the medium of which fungal diseases develop very rapidly. The surface of the leaves first turns white, and then turns black. Thus, the whitefly inflicts double harm - sucks the juices from the plant and contributes to its defeat by fungal diseases. The plant is doomed to destruction, if not to take urgent measures.

Control measures

How to deal with the butterfly-whitefly, if it is already wound on an adult plant? The most reliable method of dealing with it is treatment with insecticides. Drugs in shops are sold a lot, you can choose any of them Them: "Fosbetsid", "Futafon", "Mospilan", "Pegasus", "Actellik", "Verticillin-G" or any other. On how to deal with whiteflies, the instructions to these drugs are written in detail. It is necessary to adhere strictly to the indicated doses for processing and not to exceed them. But you can use these chemicals only before flowering plants or at least during it. If the fruits are already fastened, it is better not to use the chemistry, but to resort to proven "grandmother" methods. People's wisdom knows how to deal with whiteflies. Often farmers use glue traps. You can use the usual ribbons for flies, and you can make them yourself. To do this, take small veneers, paint them in a bright color (this attracts the pest) and lubricate with any sticky substance, such as honey or castor oil. Such self-made traps need to be washed a few days and smeared again. How to deal with whiteflies in the home, if the wrecker was wound on the flowers, the wisdom of the people will also tell. For indoor flowers, safer solutions are used: soap solution (dilute household soap in water in a ratio of 1: 6), yarrow infusion (80 g of grass per 1 liter of hot boiling water, insist a day) or infusion of garlic (1 tablespoon purified and chopped Garlic pour 1 liter of hot boiling water, insist a day). These infusions and solutions are wiped or sprayed with plant leaves. If there was a whitefly on seedlings, how to fight? Here, both insecticides and infusions prepared independently are suitable.

Where does the pest come from?

Very often, we ourselves put a whitefly in our house or a greenhouse together with the purchased soil for seedlings. To ensure that next year in your greenhouse or a greenhouse this harmful butterfly did not appear, in areas where cold winters do nothing, all the larvae will freeze over the winter. And if the winters are not cold, regularly change the soil and monitor its quality.