Probably everyone saw huge flocks of birds on the field that had just been plowed. Various larvae are attracted here by birds in the ground, most of all they like caterpillars with thick belly, having a yellowish-white color. These are the
May beetle larvae - pests of crops that have been in the soil for almost four years. Most of them are near forests and groves. Before talking about how to deal with
May bugs, we will learn more about them.
There are several types of these insects, the most harmful for household plots is the Western beetle, or, as it is also called, chafer. It has a yellow-brown coloration of the back and a black breast, a mustache with a mace of 6-7 plates. In length, the beetle reaches three centimeters. His eggs are oval white.
May beetles eat vegetable plants, the leaves of fruit trees and shrubs, causing great harm to them, and their larvae spoil the roots of trees, shrubs, berry bushes and potato tubers. How to deal with may bugs? After all, they cause enormous damage to agricultural plantings. And how harmful is the Maybug larva, how to deal with it?
To answer these questions, you need to have a certain idea about the development of this insect.
With the onset of spring (when fruit trees begin to bloom, and the temperature of the soil warms up to about ten degrees), May beetles fly out of wintering places. From April to June, they feed on leaves and ovaries of trees, then the females begin to lay eggs in the ground. Already in July, beetle larvae appear that live in the land for several years. At first they feed on humus, then rise closer to the soil surface and begin to eat plant roots, rapidly increasing in size.
Overwintering, the larvae go deeper, next spring they go to the surface of the earth and begin to eat almost all the vegetation. At a time when the larvae reach a length of almost seven centimeters, they cause irreparable damage to crops. This is why it is important to know how to deal with May bugs and their larvae. Only in the third winter do the larvae of the horsetail go to a depth of one meter and pupate. There, in winter, beetles emerge from the pupae, which in spring fly out onto trees and bushes.
So, how to deal with the May beetles and their terribly harmful grubs?
There are several popular ways to deal with these pests. You can shake the beetles themselves into kerosene and burn, use light traps. To destroy the eggs of horsetail, you should regularly loosen the soil - they do not like this. You can pour bleach, decoction of onions and garlic, iodine solution under the trees. May beetle larvae cannot exist near mustard, radish, radish and cabbage, so it is worth planting these crops near fruit trees and bushes.
How to deal with may bugs by chemical means? To achieve good results in this irreconcilable struggle, you can use the Russian chemicals “Aktara”, “Pochin”, “Zemlin”, the Ukrainian remedy “Antichrush” and the drug from Switzerland “Bazudin”.