Fruit apple juice: measures of struggle, prevention and recommendations

A beautiful, well-groomed yielding a rich harvest garden is the dream of any gardener. And it can bring joy not only in the spring because of the beautiful flowering and aroma, but also in autumn during harvesting of juicy and healthy apples.

But the yield of the garden may suffer as a result of infection of trees with various parasites. Then the yield is questionable, and the thunder of defeat hangs over the entire garden. One of these pests is the apple mullet. This parasite It can cause irreparable harm not only to the crop, but to the whole garden as a whole due to its rapid reproduction.

Biological features of butterfly

The butterfly of the apple moth is brown or grayish in color. The wings are cross-shaped, the span is not more than 2 centimeters and the spot is darker than the butterfly's body. To notice the infestation of a tree by a pest at early stages is almost impossible, because the butterfly leads nightlife and lays eggs on fruits and leaves in the dark.

The number of eggs laid by females can reach up to a hundred, seven days later, caterpillars of light red color with a brownish head appear. During one season the butterfly can breed two generations of larvae, which can destroy almost the entire crop and significantly damage the fruit tree itself.

Liveliness of the caterpillar

Hatching caterpillars fall into the fetus by eating flesh, reaching the core, which prevents fruit from developing properly. As a consequence, the fruits fall off. Caterpillars apple mullets can get infected not only apple trees, a pest can hit any fruit tree.

Fruit apple may also affect already formed fruits, which, despite the continued growth, can reach maturity earlier than others and fall under the influence of the pest's vital activity.

The time of development of the caterpillar can reach a month, during this time the insect can damage a large number of fruits. In the autumn months, the pest migrates into the cracks of the tree bark, it takes the shape of a pupa and lives until the spring. For wintering, caterpillars can choose crop storage locations, sheds, cellars or boxes for fruit.

Pest Control

Pest control can be carried out by various methods, the main task is not to let insects breed and not to get into hiding places for wintering. In the initial stage of the defeat, the catching method proved to be well established. To get rid of the garden from insects use such methods of resistance:

• Belts for catching insects.
• Sprinkling of trees with herbicides.
• Disinfection of storage rooms.

If the apple moth has strongly proliferated, the measures of struggle must be combined. It also makes sense to carry out preventive works to prevent infection.

Catching of insects

You can catch insects with various devices. You can use anti-pest (apple moth) measures of struggle in the form of a belt for catching. Such adaptations work at the expense of the desire of the worm to find a secluded place. To make such belts, you can use any handy material: cardboard, paper, newspaper or fabric. Sledding belts are located at the height of the tree to 30 centimeters from the ground and represent a kind of skirt.

A strip of material up to 20 centimeters wide wraps around the trunk and is fixed with a rope or elastic on top, and the lower part of the belt remains in a free state. When applying paper, it is desirable to slightly deform or crumple, then many bends will result, and the caterpillars will freely settle in such a trap without infecting the fruit. The overlay of such devices on a tree should be carried out in the last days of May or in the initial dates of June. Change these devices should be once a week, carefully destroying the old lining.

Advantages and disadvantages of the method of catching

Advantages of this product from the apple mulberry fruit mushroom is in cheapness and simplicity. What could be easier than tying a piece of material on a tree trunk? With this method, the apple moth is quickly destroyed and the control measures do not allow the fruits and trees to be treated with chemical compounds, which makes it possible to obtain a crop without excess nitrates. Similar belts for catching insects can serve not only against apple mulberry fruit, they are quite capable of coping with other types of dangerous pests in the garden.

The disadvantages are the need to constantly monitor the traps. Replacement of belts should be carried out after the rain. Paper has the property of disintegrating under the influence of moisture, and film traps are not desirable because of the risk of overheating the bark of the fruit tree on hot summer days.

Sprinkling of trees with insecticide-type preparations

The struggle with apple mullet in the spring can begin with spraying the garden with special preparations. Among them can be identified "Decis", "Rovikurt", "Sonnet", "Carbophos", "Nomolt", "Sherpa", "Fastak" and their analogues. Fruit jelly apple-like preparations of this type can be transported and without prejudice to themselves, therefore it is better to conduct each subsequent treatment of the garden with another means.

Timing of spraying trees should be strictly observed.

• The first spraying is carried out after flowering, but before the appearance of the first ovaries.
• The second spraying is carried out 12 days after the first one. During this period, the apple fruit flounder can already hit young fruits.
• The third spraying is carried out 10 days after the second.

Spraying should be done in the evening because of the nocturnal lifestyle of the pest at an air temperature of at least 18 ° C, because at a lower temperature the chemical may not act properly.

Spraying is strictly prohibited during the ripening period, because the pulp can be saturated with chemicals, and it is unacceptable to take such a meal for human consumption. In such periods it is possible to carry out spraying with infusions from wormwood or tops from tomatoes. It is the broths of these plants that have effectively proven themselves in the fight against apple fruiting.

The method of catching butterflies with the help of wandering solutions

How to deal with apple mullet with the help of chemicals, every gardener knows, but such protection of the tree can have a disastrous effect on the crop. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to solutions with the action of fermentation. They are not poisonous and perfectly serve to destroy the butterfly-pests.

Empty containers are filled in one third with a solution of apple compote or other ingredient capable of causing fermentation. To obtain such a solution, you can use whey from milk, kvass bread, beer or decoctions from dried fruits. For the fermentation process, it is worth adding sugar and yeast to the solution, infusing for several hours and pouring in a container. Further, the lures obtained are weighed on a tree. The strong smell of yeast attracts butterflies, they perish in a container, without having had time to make a clutch with larvae.

The replacement of these traps should be done as they are filled, but not less than once in 3-4 days. Otherwise, the fermentation process will end, and there will be no sense of adaptation.

Measures to combat apple moth in autumn

If in the spring period, despite all the efforts, it was not possible to defeat the pest, then it is necessary to conduct a number of activities in the fall after harvesting. To prevent the larva from crawling into the bark of the tree, the trunk can be whitewashed with lime. Considering whitewashing, not less than a quarter of the tree. A mortar of lime should not be made liquid, it is better if all voids and cracks in the tree are filled with it.

It is good to scrape away parts of the dead cortex of the trunk and branches with a scraper and get rid of the resulting waste by incineration. In the autumn period, a deep plowing of the land around the trees should be carried out, this will help kill the larvae that winter in the ground.

Having prepared such a tree for wintering, there is an opportunity to get rid of the treacherous fruit-flies by the spring.

Prevention measures to prevent re-infection

The fruits that fell from the infected tree are of little use for food. But if the fruit is large and the tree has not been treated with chemicals, then such fruits can be allowed for processing, taking into account the complete destruction of the received waste.

After collecting the carrion, you can not leave unprocessed fruit for storage at night. Plodzhozhorka will crawl away due to the principle of its nightlife and there is a risk of repeated infection of the tree or damage to other trees that are near the house.

The packaging for harvesting should be chosen from smooth and smooth materials, preferably ceramic or plastic. Larvae of the pest can not hide in secluded corners, as in wooden boxes. After processing, such utensils should be thoroughly washed and treated with any disinfectant.

The described methods really contribute to the fight against garden pests. Help save the harvest and prevent damage to trees in the garden. When using preventive measures against infection, the garden will smell sweet and please its owners for a long time.