How to deal with strawberry leaf beetle on strawberries and raspberries
STRAWBERRY LEAF - HOW TO GET RID OF STRAWBERRY?
Those who really don't care about climate freaks are hordes of garden pests. So, all hope is on your experience, and here any advice will be very useful.
I will plant how I had to get acquainted with the strawberry leaf beetle.
My strawberries Dukat grew. The berry is very tasty, bred it from one bush, bought in the 80s, and for some reason has not transplanted it for the past several years. And in 2020, there were not enough berries, and all are small. I decided to completely clear the area of old strawberries and stopped paying attention to Dukat.
It was hot all summer, I waited for autumn to dig up old bushes. And then the raspberries Pride of Russia began to ripen, which grows in a tier higher than strawberries (I have a dacha on a slope, I had to make tiers of boards treated with used engine oil).
My favorite variety, but for some reason the berries began to shrink. I looked more closely - the leaves are in holes, and here and there small, about 4 mm, bugs of the color of coffee with milk are crawling along them. Still not knowing what kind of bandits were settling in, I mixed baking soda in the water and sprayed the bushes. There are fewer bugs.
Already at home I began to look through the literature on pest protection, but found nothing. I climbed into the Internet, and there are all the weevils and ticks. And - lo and behold! - found it. Agronomist Maria Vikhareva told about this beast.
These boogers overwinter under the remains of organic matter, in spring they creep out, before flowering, they gnaw holes in strawberry leaves and lay two or three eggs in each, and in total the booger can lay up to 100-200 eggs. After 10-15 days, the larvae hatch, go through the pupal stage, and bugs appear. As a result, the leaves dry up, the berries become smaller and lose their original taste. Which I found on my strawberries.
Immediately she grabbed a shovel, removed all the bushes into a barrel and burned them. She treated the land with a pesticide (although she had never used chemistry before, which she was very proud of). Raspberries were treated with a biological product.
As I understood, you cannot bring out the leaf beetle at once, the struggle will continue. And the methods of dealing with this booger are the same as with the weevil.
It’s good that I recognized the enemy in person, now it’s easier to fight, and the fight will not be easy. After all, it is not enough for them that they ate strawberries, they spread to raspberries! Interestingly, the raspberry of Joan Days grows on the same bed with the Pride of Russia, and so, Pride got it in full, they did not even touch Joan Jay.
I have a lot of raspberries - Tarusa, Glen Emple, Beauty of Russia, Irina, etc. There are also 20 varieties of strawberries. So you must not lose your vigilance.
See also: Strawberry Care Calendar - A to Z
I'll tell you more about honeysuckle. Several years ago, I knew nothing about her at all. Then I was presented with honeysuckle, honeysuckle, which grew like a decorative liana. Once I saw an advertisement for a miracle tomato. I wrote out the catalog of that company and along the way made a discovery for myself: it turns out that there is edible honeysuckle. I wrote out the seeds of the varieties Yugan, Bakcharsky giant and Daughter of a giant.
And just then I came across an article by GV. Ryazantseva "Welcome, Vitya, Galya, Masha, Valya and Helen!" I decided to grow honeysuckle from seeds, especially since G.M. Lyubenetskaya shared her experience of germinating seeds in snails. According to her method, I planted the resulting seeds.
To my delight, they all ascended. In the spring of 2016, I planted them on a small bed for growing, and in the fall I transplanted them into holes - four pieces in each. In the spring of the next year, I tried the first berries, and in the fall I already planted them one bush per hole at a distance of about 1 m.
What I want to say about seed reproduction. Several honeysuckle bushes turned out to be with bitter berries, they had to be removed. There are bushes that correspond to the varieties, and there are also those that do not.
I also tried to grow strawberries of varieties Black Swan, Zen-ga Zengana, etc. from seeds. The resulting strawberries did not resemble the mother variety, but the remontant mustacheless strawberry Irishka grown from seeds bought in the store fully corresponded to the declared qualities.
The photo shows my honeysuckle in buds and in bloom. Raspberry Pride of Russia, remontant strawberry Flamenco.
See also: How to deal with weevils and strawberry mites on strawberries (Nizhny Novgorod)
© Author: Iran KOVALEVA Saratov
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What kind of “beast” is the strawberry leaf beetle?
This pest damages strawberries (garden strawberries) and berry bushes growing next to them - currants and gooseberries. Leaves on damaged berry fields dry out prematurely. If you look closely, you can see pest larvae on them.
Control measures
The beetles overwinter under strawberry and currant bushes. Therefore, without waiting for them to emerge, cover the soil under the plants, for example, with pieces of old roofing felt, film, cardboard. Most of the beetles will not be able to get out from under such a barrier and will die. But some of the beetles will still end up on the bushes, and you can expect a landing party from your neighbors. In this case, at the end of April, it would be useful to treat strawberries and currants with a drug against a complex of pests on berry fields - for example, Figoverm, Kinmiks or Actellik (strictly according to the instructions). When spraying, you should try to ensure that the product gets on the underside of the leaves, where the bulk of the beetles and larvae are located.