Gooseberries: fighting measures

One of the most dangerous pests, capable of cutting the crop almost half, is the gooseberry flax. In order to effectively destroy the pest, you need to know what it is, and know the conditions of its habitat. It is a small butterfly with gray front wings with brown stripes. Female butterflies in spring lay eggs in flower buds, and then in the ovary itself. Appearing later caterpillars eat at the beginning flowers, and then eat the flesh of fruits. Berries prematurely begin to change their color and wither.

Caterpillars are green and slightly smaller than butterflies. Approximately by mid-June they are taken into the upper layer of the soil and pupate right at the base of the bushes. That is why when a pest such as a gooseberries grows, measures of struggle include in their list an item according to which it is necessary to carry out autumn digging of soil not only under bushes, but also near them. Many of the pupae will be on the surface and freeze with the onset of cold weather. In addition, bushes need to be bored. The earth should be taken away from the bush. This process is quite laborious, as hilling should be carried out at 10-15 cm. Even if one of the pupae remains in the ground, from under the layer of such thickness it simply can not get out.

Those pupae, which still managed to survive, spend the winter in the uppermost layer of the soil. In the spring period, when buds appear on the bushes, butterflies - the gooseberry firefly - begin to appear on the bushes. Measures of struggle during this period are of considerable importance. After all, if you use any chemical preparations, you need to have time to flowering, otherwise the gooseberry fire will destroy some of the flowers. What to do in this period? It is necessary to spray the soil under the bushes with hexachlorane. Butterflies, creeping along such a soil, will perish. A similar effect has a weak solution of anabasine sulfate, nicotine sulfate. For greater effect, a small amount of soap can be added to the solution.

But this is not all drugs that can destroy such a pest as a gooseberries. Control measures include many procedures. During the mass invasion of this pest, the soil surface was pollinated with a 12% solution of dust. Plus, 50 grams of the drug was poured under the bush a week before flowering. During the formation of buds for spraying, it is recommended to use a preparation such as Kinmix. In addition, immediately after flowering, you can use the biological drug "Lepidocide" or "Bitoksibatsillin".

However, many gardeners try not to use chemicals. What to do in this case when a pest called a gooseberry bug appears on the bush? Control measures without chemicals are there, and there are quite a few of them. Spraying bushes can be produced on the fifth day of flowering with infusions of chamomile, onion, mustard, tansy, yarrow, makhorka. To get the most effect, the treatment can be repeated 3-4 times with an interval of about a week. During the formation of the ovaries, spraying can be done with a soapy ash solution.

The fight against the gooseberry flint includes in its list and the mechanical harvesting of damaged berries. Using this method, you will protect the remaining fruits. Damaged are not only wilted fruits, but also colored or braided cobwebs. In addition, it is necessary to clean and destroy nests of cobwebs, which the gooseberries flocked in the bushes. One simple way to scare off this pest is a tomato planting in the immediate vicinity. If you do not know how to deal with gooseberries, you can turn to folk methods. If the area of the garden area is small, establish a kind of traps - containers with wandering juices. In addition, in specialized stores you can buy an electric trap or light trap.