Saddle belts for apple trees and other garden trees. How to make a hunting belt and secure your garden

Spring troubles in the garden-garden are various and numerous. Here is the preparation of the soil, and the fuss with the seedlings, and transplanting, and pruning-and there are not enough cases to be found! However, experienced gardeners pay special attention to protecting their perennial plantations (in particular trees) from the invasion of various pests. And here simply invaluable help is provided by the hunting belts in the trees.

What are they needed for

Of course, it is possible to poison unwanted visitors with poisonous chemicals. However, we note that they are not useful not only to trees, but also to the owners of the garden. In addition, such treatment will have to be repeated many times, and at the time of flowering (and especially fruiting) this process is generally strictly prohibited. If we consider that the trees are blooming and giving fruit at different times, the allowed time range is reduced to a very short one. So there are mechanical ways, and among them the most effective - trapping belts (for apple trees, pears, plums ...). They are absolutely harmless to plants, do not contaminate soil and air with surplus substances, reliably prevent the pests that travel "on foot" from falling onto trees.

Funnel and its varieties

Admittedly, trapping belts for apple trees and other trees are effective only three varieties: funnel-shaped, in the form of a double-funnel funnel and sticky. The most simple in the execution of the trap of the first type. For their arrangement it is enough to take cardboard or thick paper and roll material around the trunk in the form of a funnel, fastening it with a soft wire or rope in the middle. The bottom should be a bell, and the top winds in a few turns, very tight. It would be good if the lumens on top of anything smudge - clay or garden. Most effectively showed such trapping belts for apple trees, because these trees often suffer greatly from apple moth. And this pest in such "traps" is locked almost completely.

To increase the exposure, the paper material is pre-impregnated with insecticides, and the trapping belts are regularly checked (for apple trees they are intended for other garden trees). The caught beetles and caterpillars are shaken out into the fire.

Two-sided subspecies of funnel

It is used in cases where the tree trunk is too uneven, for example, at the binding point there is a "stump" from the branch once removed. In this case, there is no guarantee that the insulating material is adjacent to the trunk sufficiently tightly over the entire diameter. The principle by which such trapping belts for apple trees are arranged remains the same, only bandaging is done twice, and there is a gap between them, in which pests that managed to overcome the first obstacle are killed. An analogue of such a trap can be considered old kapron stockings, imposed on the trunk several times a short distance from each other. Quite a successful engineering move: stockings are well stretched, because they fit closely to the bark, but they do not press the barrel. To remove them is also not a problem - it was cut and they fell to the ground. And that such belts were effective, the bandage should be saturated with insecticides again . The method of wrapping the trunks with glass wool is also good: it is irresistible for caterpillars with their vulnerable body. If you need swift belts from ants, then such traps do not justify themselves, because these insects will be able to overcome them.

Glue to the rescue

Something like a kind of hosiery "barriers". True, the fabric should be chosen with a more porous surface that could hold onto the drops of glue that does not dry out for a long time. A strip of such material wrapped around the trunk, it is applied a sticky composition. As it is, most gardeners use glue designed to fight rats and mice. Plus that such trapping belts from ants help just fine, but at the same time useful insects get into their "greedy hands" - the same bees, ladybugs, bumblebees and wasps. And the land owner can accidentally stick to his trap.

How to make a universal "trap"

It is worth paying close and constant attention to this way of combating garden "predators", since it is not difficult to make a hunter's belt and it does not require spending. There is an option that has long been recognized as a horticulturalist - to make a trap from a rubber sheet with a kind of reservoir. The sheet is taken not very thick, but soft, folded by a funnel (two-sided) around the trunk and adheres firmly. The upper received funnel is filled with ordinary vegetable oil mixed with a decoction made from the leaves of a tree on which a trap is attached. If the pests can overcome the lower barrier, they fall into the upper, from which they can no longer escape. An additional bonus is that it is not necessary to change such a belt as the tree grows - the rubber gently and gradually stretches to the desired diameter. But you have to change the oil.

How to achieve greater efficiency

First of all, do not forget: even glue, which does not dry for a long time, will do it someday. So either its layer will have to be updated, or go for additional tricks. In order not to destroy useful flying insects on its site, it is necessary to strengthen the "visor" above the hunt belt, for example, from a plastic bottle. Then only pests will fall into the trap. And do not trust advertising! In specialized stores, ready-made glues are often sold - hacking belts, on which it is written that the composition is applied directly to the bark. Never! The trunk will get burned, and at least you will treat the tree for a long time. First wrap the barrel with cooking paper, and just spread on it with glue glue.

Victory over pests!