Apple blossoms - fighting with it

One of the main pests in our gardens is the apple blossom - a grayish-brown beetle up to 5 mm in size. Contrary to its name, this insect can do great harm not only to apple trees, but also to pears. Let's find out how to deal with the apple-colored weevil-colorod.

How to deal with the apple blossom?

The main means against the apple blossom and the measures to combat it are as follows:

• glutinous hunting belts for pests. They must be made at the base of the bracts, since the flowerhead has a habit of hibernating in the cracks of the cortex closer to the soil. Then these traps are burned;
• the use of insecticides: Decis, Kinmix, Calypso, Aktara, Fastak, Karate;
• also tsvetoeda can be scared off, sprinkling the tree crowns with a concentrated aqueous solution of freshly lime;
• If the pest has already settled on apples and pears in your garden, you can fight it with the help of chemicals such as Fastak, Novaktion, Fufanon, Karbofos, etc .;
• While the temperature is still low and the beetles are inactive, it can also be effective to destroy them mechanically. Under the tree you need to lay a light film, and then shake the insects from each branch and pour into a bucket with a strong solution of salt.

When using insecticides it is advisable to alternate the preparations annually, so that there is no getting used to this or that remedy.

When to start fighting with the flowerhead?

Timeliness is very important in the fight against the apple blossom. Start spraying should not be later than the first buds in the trees in your garden begin to swell and blossom. As soon as the ambient temperature rises to +6 ... +8 ° С and snow falls, you can go out to fight the pest. Otherwise, if the females are already laid eggs in the kidneys, you will only have to fight with newly emerging bugs, and this is ineffective and late. Tsvetoed is capable of destroying all flowers on undersized apple trees, and then you will not be able to wait for the harvest.

In general, it is recommended to spray against tsvetoed twice in the spring - before the swelling of the kidneys and during this process. As a rule, preparations from apple blossoms are applied with a two-week break.

And that the flowerhead does not appear on apples, every season, carry out prophylaxis: collect and burn fallen leaves, diseased branches, and the ground under the trees must be dug up.