Whitefly - a pest of garden plants, can affect both adult specimens and young seedlings.It feeds this bad little butterfly of juice.Externally, the insect looks like a white moth, but much smaller.The adult only 2 mm in length, likes to settle in greenhouses (no wonder it is called the greenhouse whitefly), but can live on houseplants.This tiny butterfly looks difficult to notice, she lives on the underside of leaves.But it is necessary to touch the plants, insects fly right, it looks like a dusty cloud.
Signs of plants
will understand in order, how to deal with whiteflies.To understand this, one must know how to look infected plants.As mentioned above, if a little hurt leaf, appears around the cloud of a large number of very small butterflies.In damaged leaves on the lower side forms a sticky substance in the environment which is fast developing fungal diseases.The surface of the leaf is white at first, and then turns black.Thus, whitefly deals double damage - sucking juices from plants and contributes to his defeat fungal diseases.The plant is doomed to failure unless they take radical measures.
Control measures
How to deal with a butterfly-whitefly, if it has already started up on an adult plant?The most reliable method of combating it is to treat with insecticides.Preparations in the stores sold a lot, you can choose any of them, "Fosbetsid", "Fufafon", "Mospilan", "Pegasus", "aktellik," "Vertitsillin-F" or whatever.For information on how to deal with whitefly instructions to these drugs written in detail.It should adhere strictly to the indicated dose for treatment and not to exceed them.But to use these chemicals only to flowering plants, or at least during it.If the fruit is already fastened, it is best not to use chemicals and resort to proven "granny" methods.For information on how to deal with whitefly know the proverb.Most gardeners use glue traps.You can also use normal tapes for flies, but you can make them yourself.To do this, take a small fanerki, paint them in bright colors (this attracts the pest) and lubricate any sticky substance such as honey or castor oil.These homemade traps need a few days to wash and smear again.How to deal with the whiteflies in the home, if the pest is wound up on the flowers, too, tell the folk wisdom.For indoor plants use more secure means: soap solution (diluted soap in water at a ratio of 1: 6), the infusion of yarrow (80 g herb in 1 liter of hot boiling water, per day), or the infusion of garlic (1 tbsp. L. Peeled and crushedgarlic, pour 1 liter of hot boiling water, per day).These infusions and solutions wipe or spray the leaves of plants.If there was a whitefly on seedlings, how to fight?There are suitable as insecticides and tinctures made independently.
Where does the pest?
Very often we ourselves drifts into your home or greenhouse whitefly with the purchased ground for seedlings.To next year in your greenhouse or a greenhouse does not appear this harmful butterfly, in areas where cold winters, to do nothing, all the larvae during the winter vymerznut.And if the winter is not cold, regularly change the soil and follow its quality.
