Plum - pests and their control

Growing this juicy and fragrant fruit, many gardeners are faced with various diseases and pests that can spoil the crop or even completely you to deprive it. To prevent this, it is necessary to protect the plum from pests, which will be discussed in this article.

The main pests of plums and methods of combating them

Fruit mite on the plum leads to the fact that the leaves quickly become brown and fall, and the process of bookmarking the flower buds of the harvest of the next year is slowing down.

The fight against the mite is to clean the trunks of plum trees from the dead bark and treatment with insecticides "Karate" or "Fufanon." Spraying is done three times - before the buds swell, during swelling and at the stage of bud budding.

Another plum pest is the mucous sawfly, which skeleton leaves. The fight against it is the collection and mandatory burning of all plant remains, and during the hatching of larvae, that is, in July and early August, requires spraying trees with drugs "Fufanon" or "Novaktion".

The yellow plum sawfly eats the bone and flesh of the fetus, and also damages the ovaries. With this pest on the plum it is necessary to struggle here as: the found out adults should be shaken off on a film, and to do it better in cloudy weather, and further to process a tree "Fufanon" twice - before flowering and on its termination.

Eastern fruit moth damages stalks and flesh of fruits. Combating them is possible with the help of a solution of table salt immediately after the end of flowering plums. Re-processing is carried out after harvesting.

Eating wood trunks and branches of many fruit trees, including plums, pest of the swamp, which is a beetle of dark brown color, up to 4 mm. Methods of combating it consist in removal and burning of damaged branches before the spring departure of beetles, spraying of trees with chlorophos or metaphos. Especially abundant with these solutions need to moisten the trunks of trees.