Autumn is a great time for gardeners, it's so nice to finally see firsthand and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Fruit ripen, you can dig up potatoes. But often this joy is overshadowed by the discovered traces of uninvited guests, for example - in the tubers of potatoes , the worm wireworm "fairly worked". Let's find out how to get rid of the wireworm so that this trouble does not happen again for the next season.
How to get rid of a beetle and a wireworm worm?
Wireworms are essentially larvae of the beetles. The name of the worms was due to its extraordinary strength - they can not be crushed by fingers and not easily broken into pieces. Harm they produce a colossal crop.
Bugs wireworms at the end of April come to the surface of the soil, the females go in search of moistened, fertile places, and there larvae are deposited there. Within a couple of weeks, the larvae hatch and begin to grow and develop for 3-4 years until they turn into a beetle. Along the way, they damage seeded seeds and roots, than a lot of upset gardeners.
To get rid of this pest, gardeners came up with several ways. The first of them is to put baits. It can be a cut potato tuber, pieces of carrots, beets that need to be buried in the ground and wait for the bait to collect more worms. Then dig up the "treasure" and destroy the pests. After that, their number in the beds will be reduced.
Another variant of the bait is the stringing of potato tubers on the line. This "garland" is buried in the ground and periodically removed to remove the caked wireworms. This method is absolutely harmless to plants and is quite effective in fighting worms.
Chemical poisoning of insects in this case will not bring the desired result, moreover - it will do harm to plants. It is better to use another method - to dig deeply the soil and carefully destroy all visible worms, and also to remove all the roots of the creeping wheatgrass. This weed attracts worms, because it is their favorite treat.
How to get rid of wireworm in the garden?
Another way, how to get rid of wireworms - to treat the soil with a solution of potassium permanganate. The solution is prepared in this way: in 10 liters of water, you need to dissolve 5 g of potassium permanganate and pour over half a liter for each root or per well. It should, however, be taken into account that this method is effective only with a small number of larvae and beetles.
Ammonium fertilizers will also bring results. You can use ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate or ammonium chloride. Valuable varieties of potatoes before planting should be treated with a solution of the plant celandine. Seed potatoes can also be processed with Prestige and Aktara.