Strawberry and raspberry weevils - a beetle pests, which are very dangerous enemies for garden berries.They did not spare any of berry, whether blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, strawberries and others.To learn how to fight the weevil on strawberries, talk in the article.
Appearance
Taurus beetle covered with thick thin silver-gray hairs.Its distinguishing feature is a long proboscis, which later determined the name of the insect.Weevil larvae - white with a yellow-brown head, legless.
Lifestyle
takes a year, a whole generation of bugs grows and turns into a fighting unit.All winter weevils under leaf litter and clods of earth.When spring comes, they are chosen on the surface.This is where the problems begin!The parasites feed on young leaves, cuttings, shoots and buds, piercing them with his proboscis.Then, the females lay eggs in the buds.This happens just before flowering raspberry and strawberry.The larvae develop, feeding the contents of buds, and then pupate.Young beetles emerge in June, when the berries ripen.
How to deal with weevil on strawberries?
- should cultivate those varieties whose flowering period is short.We need to spend an autumn collection with the destruction of crop residues from the beetles, wintering in planting berry crops.
- One of the most popular ways in which to fight the weevil on strawberries, as well as with any other vegetable garden pests is planting garlic and onions near (or around) with bushes.Do not forget to cut off their hands, to smell deterrent parasites increased.
- No need to strawberries and raspberries planted next to each other, because they have a common pest!
- There is a proven tool.From weevil on strawberries can be eliminated by spraying insecticides such plants as "Inta-Vir", "Gardone" "metaphos."This should be exactly one week to the flowering berry bushes.Many experienced gardeners are advised to spray the plants at a time when flower buds, a solution of mustard powder, which should be diluted in water.So it will be destroyed weevil on strawberries!
- How to deal with this threat without resorting to chemical methods?Very simple!To shake beetles from the bushes on the newspaper spread on the ground.This should be done in the morning.Then destroy the parasites.
- If you're talking about chemical methods, it brings excellent results spraying berry bushes karbofosom.This should be done once a week, but only after the entire crop will be harvested and removed the damaged leaf beetles.
- Experienced gardeners who know how to fight the weevil on strawberries, not too lazy to once again dig into the ground.They say that in the fall do not forget to dig the soil, collect and burn fallen leaves (and other crop residues), it is so you destroy the weevils (and other insects), who like to spend the winter in them.
