What diseases and pests are the most dangerous pears? It is not surprising that this tree is so beloved by insects that want to enjoy either the fruits or the juice of the pear itself. Soft, pleasant to the taste and touch, fruits are liked not only by a person. Among the parasites of this tree, it is customary to distinguish a pear bug in a special category.
Pear bug
This parasite calmly tolerates cold temperatures. In winter, he hides under the leaves of a pear that have fallen from branches, and in spring he wakes up and attacks a tree. As the main type of food, it serves as cell juice. To avoid the awakening of the bug in the spring, in the autumn, carefully collect all the foliage next to the pear and burn it.
Pear Pipeline
This is another type of insect that pear prefers to all other plants and trees. The length of the pipework does not differ (it is only 4 or 6 cm). Easily tolerates even severe frosts. For this, it is buried in the soil or in autumn foliage. Protecting plants from pests of this type implies a thorough cleaning of the territory from fallen leaves. It is necessary to burn all collected garbage. Then, along with sleeping individuals, their children will die. Pipelines are very prolific: one female pipework lays about twenty eggs at a time. She hides them in the young shoots of a pear, which folds like cigarettes or tubes. Hence the name of this insect, which eats and shoots, and fruits, and buds of a tree.
Ticks
Pear diseases and pests annually cause permanent damage to hundreds of gardeners. Many people notice that the leaves of their beloved trees are deformed. It feels like the leaves are bubbling up. The reason for this visual change is ticks.
Ticks spend the cold part of the year in the pear tree buds. In the spring they gnaw through a hole and go outside. The main type of food for them is pear tree juice. They empty the leaves to such an extent that they practically dry out. In this case, the plant simply needs to turn on the protective mechanism. Bloating is the way trees protect the sap from ticks.
A variety of diseases and pests of the pear can cause the tree to die or cease to bear fruit. After all, parasites are not the only violators of the peaceful existence of pear trees. Diseases of garden trees - this is another problem that any modern gardener faces.
Scab is one of the most common diseases among garden trees. You can detect its traces at the initial stage of infection on the back of the pear leaves. An unpleasant-looking plaque will soon apply to the fruits of a sick scab plant. The infected fruits have a strange shape: they seem to have been flattened on one side.
Fruit rot
From such a disease, the fruits of apple and pear become brownish. On the most affected side, whitish uneven growths appear in the form of circles. It is in them that the spores of the disease are stored. When the wind blows, the spores come off and are transferred with a stream of air to a new place. No matter where they fall - on the root of the tree or on its fruit - infection will occur in any case.
Diseases and pests of a pear - this is the real scourge of a modern gardener. Fighting parasites or infection is necessary with the help of special tools and constant cleaning of the territory.