Aphids are a dangerous and prolific insect that can spoil the life of gardeners. Waking up in early spring, until late autumn, these small sucking insects in whole colonies besiege fruit trees and berry bushes.
Summer heat allows aphids to reproduce in large quantities. Pests are conveniently located on the underside of the leaflet, completely covering its surface. The leaf curls, changes, often dies completely, and the tips of the shoots become curved and completely stop growing.
Aphids on the apple, how to fight
If the aphid affects the apple tree, this can be seen from the leaves of the tree: they become tuberous, with a red color. Overwintering the pest remains in the egg stage under the bark of boles, young shoots or thick branches, next to the kidneys. The shape of eggs in aphids is oblong, they are shiny, up to half a millimeter in length. In early spring, young insects do not yet have wings, but when they grow up, females can fly long distances.
What to do if aphid is wound on an apple tree? How to deal with it, you need to know for sure, otherwise it will destroy all fruit and berry plants in the garden. As with any other pest, aphids need to be fought in early spring, before the buds begin to bloom. Weeds should be eliminated in a timely manner and tops cut near the tree, because some species of aphids also develop on them and remain wintering.
Home remedies
Simple home remedies will help if aphid appears on the apple tree. How to deal with a pest with folk remedies, for example, a soap solution? Take 400 g of laundry soap, cut and mix with 10 liters of water.
Effective fight against aphids on the apple tree by spraying tobacco tincture. Take 500 g of shag, tobacco, small tobacco waste and insist in 10 liters of water for two days. Strain through burlap, add another 10 liters of water. Before use, laundry soap is added - 40 g per 10 liters of solution. Dissolve the soap in a liter of water and add to the composition.
How to spray apple trees from aphids? Take about 800 g of dry yarrow collected before flowering. Brew the grass in boiling water for half an hour, then add 10 liters of water and insist for another day. But you can just boil the broth and add laundry soap before use.
If all of the above methods have not helped or are not suitable for some reason, and still remains
aphids on the apple, how to deal with it then? Try one more way. In early spring, to destroy insects that overwintered on a tree, prepare a nitrofen solution (200 g per ten-liter bucket of water). Destroy the solution all the eggs, and at the same time the
scab of the apple tree. Do not spare the cooked “medicine” and sprinkle abundantly not only the tree, but also the ground under it.
Modern drugs
The easiest way to deal with the pest is to use the funds purchased in specialized stores. For example: “Spark”, “Decis”, “Cypermethrin”, “Inta-Vir” and others. The drugs should be used twice after 9-13 days. The first time all overwintered individuals are destroyed, the second attempt eliminates surviving or newly emerged pests.