Green bug is a garden. A photo. How to get rid of a pest?

In every garden, in the country or in the garden, or more accurately on any country site, you can find a huge number of insects, which is not surprising: it's their habitat. Some species are not harmful to humans and plants, others can cause significant damage to plantings. One of these insects is a green bug.

Pest features

Officially, insects of this species are called forest tree shields. In the people the insect was called a bug-stink. This name was due to a strong smell, remaining wherever the bed bug crawled. And the smell remains long enough. Berries do not eat wood shards, but their smell causes the harvest to be impossible: if a green bug raspberries settles, the aroma and taste of the fruit will be completely ruined.

The body of an adult wood-cutter is oval and broad, and the head is small, with long antennae and proboscis. A dense shell, which consists of individual scales, reliably protects the insect. Color bug changes depending on the season: early in the spring it is light green, like young leaves in trees, closer to autumn it becomes dark green, and when the leaves begin to turn yellow, its color changes to brownish-yellow. Thus, color serves as a protection against predators.

Reproduction

During the season the shields lay eggs twice. They choose to place their progeny inside the sheets. Within two weeks, the larvae leave the eggs and immediately begin to eat. Food for young individuals is the juice of leaves. To get it, the larva pierces the leaf with a sharp proboscis, sucks the juice, instead of which it lets in the poison. Getting inside the leaf, the poison leads to its fading. After that, the affected parts of the leaves wither, break off and crumble. If there are many such leaves on the plant, it will dry up - that's what can happen if a green bug settles on the plot. The photo above perfectly demonstrates the consequences of his activities.

The larvae of each generation stage (a total of 5) are covered with a hard shell. To go to the next stage, you need to get out of the shell, and this is quite difficult. Therefore it is possible not all larvae live to an adult status. Even more larvae perish from birds and predatory insects, which also significantly reduces their population. Thus, their number is rarely so great that it can cause the death of bushes and trees.

The situation is quite different in the fields where cereal crops grow: the green bug causes the cereals to cease to bear fruit, and then they may die.

Habitat

Green bug inhabits the whole of Europe. He lives wherever trees grow, shrubs. Gardens, forest plantations, green lawns are places where you can meet a pest. But even if he himself is not visible, that this insect lives here, the damaged leaves will prompt.

Raspberry bushes, currants, gooseberries are most often affected. If they are not present nearby, then the food is served to him:

• Succulent herbs;
• Deciduous trees;
• Any berry bushes;
• Cereals.

Preventive measures

To substantially reduce the number of tree shields, even agrotechnical measures help most often. To do this, you only need to know the peculiarities of their wintering: the shields hide under fallen leaves and remain there until the cold passes. As soon as the heat comes, starving insects with renewed vigor take to eat everything that is available to them and acceptable as food. But if in the autumn, before the frosts, to remove the fallen leaves along with other plant debris and burn it all, the number of remaining shields will be minimal. According to experienced gardeners, if you also dig through the soil, then next year on the site is unlikely to find even one bug green garden. There are other ways of removal from the site of the protector.

Mechanical removal

In other words, you need to collect insects with your hands. This is the most harmless way, but it is ineffective: to see in the green foliage of the same color the insect is difficult. Moreover, there is very little chance of finding the egg-laying eggs, so it is unlikely that the number of shields will decrease on the site with this way of dealing with them. In addition, you need to collect the wood patch constantly, since new insects will appear, and if they are not removed, the number of pests will increase.

Application of folk remedies

The advantage of this method of eliminating a wood shrew is complete safety for all living things, from people to plants. Important for many and a small cost. The disadvantages include low effectiveness of home remedies, since the green bug from them does not die, but simply leaves the site for a while. To insects do not return back, it is necessary to repeat the treatment periodically.

To remove pests, you need:

1. Dissolve dry mustard powder in a cool water (10: 1) and immediately sprinkle all the plants.
2. For 5 days, insist on onion husks. To do this, take 10 liters of hot water 200 grams of husk. Mix and set aside. The treatment is carried out 3 times a day with a break of 5 days.
3. Make a tincture of bitter wormwood and treat infected plants, if found, for example, green bugs on the currant.
4. To repel the pest, use the plant clopogon (tsimicifuga) - plant it in different places on the site.

Other ways of fighting

How to get rid of green bugs on plants, if there are a lot of pests divorced? Both methods described above in such cases can not have the expected effect, so you will have to turn to the help of chemistry. Although to date, there are no insecticides for the destruction of the woodchuck, there are other means that will help clear the site of pests. All of them differ in the mechanism of action and in how they penetrate into the body of insects:

1. Contact. Are used most often. Means penetrate into the body if contact occurs with any part of the pest's body.
2. Intestinal. Insecticides of this type begin to work on bedbugs only after getting into their digestive system.
3. System. This type of drugs penetrates into the tissues of plants, after which the eating leaves of the defenders die.

Experts advise to choose insecticides depending on the situation and begin to exterminate the wood sweeper only when its number really begins to pose a threat to the site.

Means for the destruction of wood shards

Since the bug-stink was not included in the list of dangerous insects, to date there are no drugs designed to destroy this particular type of pest. The most popular in this case are organophosphorus preparations of wide impact:

1. "Fufanon".
2. "Phosphamide".
3. "Aktellik".
4. Carbophos.

The advantages of their application include high efficiency - enough 1-2 treatment of affected plants to clean the garden of wood shields. The disadvantage of this method is the high cost and toxicity of the preparations: they are dangerous for humans and animals, and they also poison the soil, the cultivated products. Destroy chemical means and useful insects, so their use is not always justified. But this is not the main thing - after a few treatments, the green bug does not react to the drug, since resistance develops.