scoops - the largest family of butterflies.Today there are more than 30,000 species.Most likely, this figure is not final - it will increase.
All types of shovel have thick hairs on the large abdomen, this seems to be their mission as "soft."Scoop-track - is the larva of a butterfly.They are very voracious, and therefore have a well-developed mouthparts biting type.On the lower lip which are arranged in a gland forming special instantaneously solidifying liquid air.Of these strands of spider they weave cocoons fastened leaves.
the end of its development cutworm larvae turn into pupae, which differ in size and color.All of them are fixed, jerky movements can only belly.Have an egg shape, covered with a dense shell.
When mass outbreaks cutworm caterpillars can cause enormous damage to gardens, fields and forests.For example, in Ukraine in 1924 cutworms destroyed so much grain that they could be part of the train load length of 100 kilometers.
on the plot is most common cutworm.It is a thick, light brown or gray, indistinguishable on the ground.This pernicious pest of many crops: beets, potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, corn, cucumber and others. Eating can almost everything and at night.During the day it hides under leaves or in the soil.For the season develops in two generations.
Caterpillar shovels can cut plants, like Medvedkov, and roots to eat away the whole hollow.Above-ground parts of plants, nearby to the soil, may also be damaged.Do not hesitate to take it, and planted the seed, which is why there are large bare patches in the crop.
Cabbage, gamma scoop, and many other families of Lepidoptera butterfly and damage to agriculture and grain damage not only plants, but also to collect grain.For the most dangerous forest stands of pine a scoop, a caterpillar that feeds exclusively on pine trees.
The most effective way to deal with this voracious pest - deep digging of the soil with a bayonet spade, and both fall and spring.During the summer, often need to loosen the soil between the rows of crops.Seeing the damage to plants, you should dig up the ground around him, for sure there will show up cutworm larvae.
When mass distribution have to resort to insecticides, such as "Decis", "Bazudin", "Akhtar", and others. You can of 10 liters of water to take half the recommended dose, and about 100 g of urea.Such a solution should be sprayed with planting and the soil around them.Benefits will double: cutworm larvae will die, and the plants get fertilizer.
To reduce the number of pending butterfly eggs, they need during the summer arrange bait mass (diluted with water tank with jam).Content will have to be replaced periodically, and caught moths destroy.
can use harmless biological method - Trichogramma release (an insect that destroys the eggs scoops).They are sold in specialty stores, and the number of animals per unit of plants.Perhaps the single issue of predator-mate is not enough.Then after 6 days have to repeat the procedure.
Win cutworm larvae and save the crop is realistic, especially knowing their way of life and methods of struggle.
