Carrot fly. Methods of pest control

Carrots are one of the most useful and tasty vegetables. Fresh salads with this product strengthen immunity, improve eyesight and help against various diseases. With the arrival of warm spring days, the owners of household plots go out to the garden to sow carrots, but to grow large, strong and juicy fruits, it turns out, is not so simple. Here you will have to face the fact that, for example, the seeds do not germinate at all, the sprouts will appear, but then they will begin to dry out, and the grown vegetable may turn out to be stiff or rotten. What to do in this case, to harvest a good harvest?

The main danger for our orange beauty is a carrot fly. The methods for dealing with it are fairly simple, but to begin with it is worth determining what the pest is. A black fly is about the size of a half-centimeter, does not eat carrots with transparent wings, but its larvae are very dangerous for the root crop. She lays it off for the winter, so if the seeds are sown in the cold ground, they may not penetrate, and the seedlings that appear will become pests.

First of all, you need to try the folk remedy for the carrot fly, because the chemicals negatively affect not only the insects, but also the people. When digging a bed, one should never introduce fresh manure, it attracts not only a pest known to us, but also a bear, and it will be very difficult to grow a crop on such a plot. Experimentally it turned out that the bulbous smell can not tolerate a carrot fly. The methods of struggle in this case consist in planting carrots interspersed with onions, for example, through a row.

Vegetables are best planted in open, well-blown, sunny areas. In very wet places, he prefers to lay carrot fly larvae. The methods of fighting in this case are mulching peat, as it discourages the pest. It is recommended in the period of oviposition, and this occurs in the spring and in August, to spread the rows between tobacco dust, dry mustard or mothball.

A pungent smell is very afraid of a carrot fly. The methods of struggle are to spread out the tops of tomato, yarrow, and wormwood in the aisles. Of course, they do not kill the pest, but they disorient, and he flies out of the garden with nothing. In no event should you leave a torn root crop on the site, because its odor attracts the fly.

You can also spray the beds with your own cooked broths and infusions. In this case, you can use garlic, onion, pine extract, stems and tomato leaves, that is all that has a sharp odor. If it is not clear how to get rid of a carrot fly, or nothing from folk methods does not help, you should resort to chemical treatment of beds. Very effective are such drugs as "Match", "Aktara", "Arivo" and others.

Spraying is always necessary in warm weather at a temperature above +20 ° C in the evening or in the morning. Treatments are recommended to be carried out during the breeding season of larvae, as well as when thinning the rows with carrots. From time to time, you need to monitor the condition of plants, if they are yellow and dry up for no reason, then it's time to fight the fly.