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  1. Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

    Leaflets do not have a place in the garden
    The leaf rollers are multifaceted - not only fruit trees like them, but also forest, ornamental shrubs. Caterpillars live in folded leaves - hence the name of insects. The most dangerous for garden plants - rosannaya and variegated leaf rollers. Hibernate eggs on the bark of boles and branches. Caterpillars appear at the beginning of flowering plum, cherry. They gnaw on buds, buds, leaving only "skeletons" from young leaves. After settling among the inflorescences and ovaries, the growing caterpillars tighten their webs.
    On the ovaries and fruits gnaw grooves, reaching sometimes pits. As a result, the damaged fruits fall off or, while continuing to grow, become ugly, which we have observed on our site more than once.
    How to deal with pests?
    In autumn or winter (in the second half of February) we carefully clean the trunks from the old bark, we update the whitewash.

    In the spring, before budding buds, we treat plants with insecticides. Re-treatment is needed when the caterpillars emerge from eggs: for apple and pear - before flowering, for stone (cherry, cherry, plum, plum) - immediately after it. If sprayed later, there will be almost no effect, since the caterpillars already hide in the swirling leaves, and thus are protected from the full impact of "chemistry".

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  2. Valentin KARAVAEV, city of Volgograd

    How to defeat a tortilless

    The bunching leaf is a dangerous grape pest. Outwardly, it is a small butterfly, its wingspan is slightly more than 1 cm, the caterpillars are also small - up to 2 cm. The insect lays eggs in the cracks of the vine bark, under fallen leaves, in wooden props. Larvae hibernate at the stage of pupae in cocoons; in spring they turn into butterflies, which again lay eggs. The caterpillars emerging from them begin their destructive activity: they entangle inflorescences with a cobweb, eat flowers and ovaries. Each caterpillar can destroy: up to 30 buds! Caterpillars of the summer generation destroy berries - each can eat up to 10 berries.

    To prevent this, during the massive summer of butterflies and the release of caterpillars, in a dry weather, treat the plantation with insecticides. Fortunately their choice in the market is now big.

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  3. Julia PRIEST, Ternopil region

    The shield is a small but very dangerous pest of indoor and garden plants. It is very easy to recognize by the wax shell that covers the body of the insect.

    The plants affected by the scabbard become sticky. On the leaves appear yellowish spots. It is interesting that most often the scutellum affects palms, cacti, chlorophytum, sheffler (or sheffler), some ivy, citrus, oleander, dracen, ficus and fat.

    Often a pest enters our homes through open windows. Therefore, it is better to put a fine mesh immediately. Also, scabbards can fall into the premises with donated bouquets. While flowers please us in a vase, insects manage to spread around the house. Another loophole may become contaminated soil, so it is important to monitor its quality and plant plants in the decontaminated soil.
    If the infection does occur, the affected plant must first be isolated from the healthy and placed in a bright cool place. Sill wipe with alcohol solution.

    With mild lesions it will be enough to wash the plant several times with a solution of laundry soap. In later stages, it will be necessary to periodically clean the leaves of the pest and treat the plant with preparations. Remove the scabbard can be a soft brush, soaped with laundry soap, or cotton swabs, soaked in alcohol. When processing chemicals, plants should be taken to places where there are no people, to wear a mask and gloves.

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