White cabbage has many pests loving to eat its juice and leaves, which cause great inconvenience to gardeners who can not achieve a good and high-quality harvest .
Judge for yourself: cruciferous fleas, cabbage fly, cabbage scoop, cabbage weevil, cabbage aphids, slugs , cabbage whortle (cabbage butterfly), cabbage moth - all these insects are cabbage pests. Is not it a lot for one vegetable? Therefore, the task of every horticulturist-gardener - to combat pests of cabbage in the open field.
Means of struggle against pests of cabbage
The methods of combating this or that pest will be somewhat different, therefore it is necessary to determine who lives on your cabbage patch.
Folk methods of pest control:
- Fighting cabbage scoop and butterfly cabbage butterfly . A cabbage butterfly is familiar to many of its white wings with a black edging. She lays eggs at the bottom of the leaves, and soon the yellow caterpillars hatching out of them with black specks begin to consume cabbage. The cabbage scoop is gray, it resembles a night moth, and its green larvae live inside a cabbage head. In the fight against these two butterflies, the cabbage is also sprinkled with a sweet water solution with jam or sugar (for attracting wasps that use caterpillars to feed their offspring), spraying with a solution of ash and tar soap, placing a rostrum of sticks with hanging halves of the egg shell, sprinkling with infusion of tomato leaves or onion husks, sprinkling cabbage leaves with a mixture of soda and flour.
- Fight against cruciferous flea . This insect has a body of black color with a slight silvery outflow. It, as a rule, attacks cabbage first, even at the stage of planting seedlings on the bed. From its active activity, the leaves of cabbage are covered with small holes, and if you do not take the necessary measures, soon the seedlings will die. From the cruciferous flea helps cover the garden with a non-woven cloth, sprinkle cabbage seedlings with ashes, tobacco dust, cabbage and garlic neighbors, sprinkle cabbage with water with fir oil and sprinkle seedlings with a weak solution of chicken manure.
- Fight against slugs and snails . These pests creep out into the evening and night and devour cabbage leaves. They can be combated with the method of baits in the form of prikopannye trays with beer, kvass or juice, scatter in the rows between mustard powder and unfolding fresh nettle leaves, watering cabbage leaves with a solution of ammonia, spraying the leaves with infusion of hot pepper and soap, watering the beds with a solution of ordinary greens.
- Fight against the larvae of a scoop, a May beetle and a cabbage fly. These insects are classified as underground pests, as they will destroy the roots of cabbage. To combat these larvae, one must try to attract garden ants to the garden. They crawl on the sweet, so you can prikopat next to the garden jar of jam, diluted in water.
- Fighting cabbage aphids . This small greenish pest attacks young plants that are covered with black dots, and then the leaves are folded and die. Methods for controlling aphids are spraying with infusions of tomato tops, soapy water, tobacco dust, mustard, ashes with the addition of liquid soap.
A universal way to combat various pests of cabbage
Chemical preparations for pest control
This method should be used only in the most extreme case. For cabbage pests, such drugs as Iskra-M, Fury and Kemifos are suitable. You can also try a solution of the drug "Bancol".
When using chemical. drugs, you must strictly adhere to the instructions and recommendations available on the package.