Weevils: how to deal with garden pests

A little funny bug with a long nose-proboscis, because of which it is called "elephant", is a headache for gardeners, and not only them. To think, this pest affects with the same pleasure raspberries, strawberries, cherries, apple trees! Gets from him and flowers, even room. "Elephants" are capable of causing significant damage to farmers, destroying grain in barns. Rice weevil parasitizes on rice. There is even a cotton elephant and his palm brother. The species of this pest is more than ten thousand. Almost every corner of the world has its own gluttonous weevils. How to deal with such a large legion?

Exotic representatives of this family do not interest us now, we would have to deal with the local people. Long-nosed pests do not spare the most tender and vital parts of plants. Under the impact are seeds, buds, buds, fruits and shoots. If you do not take any measures, you can say goodbye to half the plantings in the garden.

Winter "elephants" prefer, hiding in the fallen leaves or climbing into the cracks on the bark. But in the spring they move to trees to eat swelling succulent kidneys. From this neighborhood the tree begins to "cry." With damaged kidneys dripping juice, and gardeners understand that the weevils woke up. How to deal with them, you need to find out immediately, until the females laid their eggs in the buds. Otherwise, there will be no ovaries, the larvae completely dry out the tender inflorescences. After 12 or 18 days, the release of young individuals will begin, which will attack the leaves and a few remaining ovaries. And in July all the elephants hide in the bark.

The liquidation program includes strengthened preventive measures. Fallen foliage, which serves as a winter refuge for beetles, should be collected in autumn and burned. Some gardeners even specially arrange traps of foliage, laying it under the fruit trees as a bait. From such a generously proposed place for hibernation will not refuse the most cautious weevils. How to deal with those who still hibernated and got out in the spring? There are several ways. First of all, mechanical protection, that is, ordinary shaking of insects. Do it better in the early morning, when the streets are still cool and bugabile metabolisms are inhibited. As soon as it gets warmer, the pests will fly away immediately. Collect the fallen "elephants" on film or tarpaulin, and then burn. It is useful to tie glue belts to trees preparing for flowering.

Noticing the withered buds on your favorite Antonovka, you know - the weevil on the apple tree. How to deal with already hatched larvae, if precautions did not work? Have to spray with insecticides. Pre-fence all the damaged buds. Prepare the poison solution according to the instructions and treat all parts of the plant, even sprinkling the soil slightly sprinkle. When choosing a remedy, pay attention to the class of its danger to humans and pollinating insects.

No less a disaster is a weevil on a cherry, how to deal with it you already know. Activities, in principle, are the same, except that they will have to be held a little later. The mass outbreak of beetles occurs during the flowering period of cherry trees, which are slightly delayed compared to the rest of the garden plantings.

Weevils (how to deal with these not completely harmless elephants, you in the course) will not stop their attacks on your plants. Therefore, a system is necessary in their destruction. Combine active methods with prevention, carefully monitoring the condition of fruit trees.