Insidious pests attack our gardens and vegetable gardens, trying to deprive us of the harvest. Attacks of insects are exposed to all berry crops, including gooseberry . In this article we will find out what pests of gooseberries are, and learn about effective measures to combat them.
How to deal with pests of gooseberries?
So, most of all love this berry the following insects:
- Ognevka - one of the most malignant pests of gooseberries - is a green caterpillar with a black head, not more than 2 cm long. The butterfly's butterfly is painted in gray with brown strips on the front wings. Like many other insects, the fire lays the larvae inside the flower, which, growing up, gnaw the berry from the inside. Against this pest apply universal chemical preparations from leaf-eating insects: Fufanon, Iskra, Gardona, Karbofos, Aktellik, etc. If you are an adversary of chemicals, try using biologics (Gomelin, Entobacterin "," Lepidocide "). How to spray gooseberries from pests, many experienced gardeners know: infusion of ashes, mustard powder, tomato tops.
- The gooseberry sawfly often attacks bushes where prevention has not been carried out. The sawfly's caterpillar has a beautiful green-blue color with black dots. The larvae lay this insect along the veins of the leaf, and the caterpillars hatching them literally in a couple of days destroy this leaf completely. As a preventive measure, the bushes are sprayed with chemicals. It can be Iskra, Intra-vir, Carbofos or Ambush. It is also recommended to mulch a bush, remove old branches, and in the early spring you can shed the near-stump area of gooseberries with boiling water. Many shake the sawflies on film or a sheet of plywood, greased with solidol.
- Caterpillars of gooseberry moth completely eat the leaf plate as soon as they come out of hibernation. These insects have a white and yellow color with black spots along the back. Chemicals from leaf-eaters are used against moths twice a season: first with bud blossoming and then after blossoming.
Folk remedies against this pest are similar to those described in p.1-2. - The aphids parasitize on many plants, and gooseberries did not escape this fate. Larvae of gooseberry shoot aphids - small green insects - hatch in early spring and begin to suck the juice from young shoots and leaves. As a result, the latter curl and wither. The Insecticide "Iskra" and "Decis", against tobacco and ash infusions, are very helpful against aphids. From pests, you can pour a gooseberry bush with hot water no more than 70 ° (the earlier you do it, the better). And the most, perhaps, effective way is to attract to the site a natural enemy of aphids - ladybirds.