Control of pests of cabbage

Fleshy large leaves of cabbageattract different beetles and butterflies. For the next generation to grow, insects need food. Naturally, they can not find a better place than your garden with cabbage. It should be noted that different Cabbage pests also pose a threat to other cultures of the cruciferous family: radish, rape, radish, mustard, rutabaga, turnip. In order not to lose a crop, it is necessary to protect your plants from pests.

Protection of cabbage from pests

There are different methods of combating cabbage pests. This includes deep digging of soilcabbage beds for the winter, so that the insects could not survive. Timely weeding from weeds and harvesting plants will also help you fight pests of cabbage. And do not forget about spraying plants with various infusions. We will tell you more about various pests and measures to combat them.

Cruciferae flea Is the main pest that affects leavescabbage and other cruciferous crops. In appearance it is a small bouncing beetle about 2-3 mm long. The main method of combating the cruciferous flea is regular weeding of weeds, which belong to the cabbage family (shepherd's bag, raisin, field kerb, sverbiga, borax, zherushnik). You can cover cabbage seedlings with agrobel, but this is only in sunny weather. In the rest, one should rely only on spraying plants with various infusions. Of folk remedies, pollination of plants with tobacco dust mixed with ash and lime can be used. Polluted plants early in the morning on dew. The use of chemicals is a more reliable method, but harmful.

Small brown butterflies scoops lay their eggs on the inside at the end of springside of the leaves of cabbage. After three weeks, caterpillars appear that gnaw through irregularly shaped holes in the leaves. The cabbage scoop can climb into the emerging heads, where they gnaw through numerous turns. Such heads become unfit for consumption. To deal with this pest, it is recommended to dig deep beds for the winter. Also, you can manually collect the scooped eggs and young caterpillars until they go deeper into the head. The use of various microbiological or chemical preparations will be justified only if the plants have so many caterpillars. Methods of combating cabbage scoop can also be used to destroy caterpillars cabbage whitewash (white butterflies with black specks on their wings).

Cabbage aphids sticks to the bottom edges of cabbage leaves andsucks out the juice from the plant. Mass lesions of cabbage aphids can be very easily noticed: the leaves become discolored, they can acquire a bluish-pink tint or twist. Control measures for cabbage aphids are: cleaning and burning of all plant residues from the autumn beds, digging the soil for the winter and regular weeding of the cabbage family on the cabbage beds. If all these methods do not help, you can wipe the leaves of the plant with a soap solution. Still, spraying plants with infusions and decoctions of potato and tomato toppings, onions, garlic, and tobacco helps.

All similar methods of fighting aphids (except for wiping leaves with a soap solution) can be used to get rid of cruciferous bedbugs, which affect all cruciferous cultures. It is very easy to find these bedbugs: they have a long body (5-10 mm) and a variegated color of the wings. Cruciferous bugs are the brightest representatives of these beetles. Depending on the type of bedbugs, the color of the color may vary.

Two more known cabbage pests, which cause the most problems, are cabbage cabbage leaf cabbage (in the people the name is more common"weevil"). These two types of pests damage cabbage. And if the cabbage cabbage simply gnaws large holes in the leaves, then the secretive sphincter is dangerous because it lays eggs in the veins and stalk of plants. The larvae of the secretive sphincter gnaw through the leaves, penetrate into the stems and make moves, reaching the root. Depending on the degree of damage to the plant, cabbages may lag behind in development or die. The fight against these pests is as follows: weeding the plants from weeds, digging up the soil, cleaning the remains of plants from the beds in autumn. To combat cabbage sprouts, pollination with a mixture of tobacco dust and ash can also be used. And in order to stop the cabbage secretly, the plants damaged by it should be immediately discarded and burned.

The fight against pests of cabbage is a laborious occupation. But all methods of destroying pests are reduced to only the main rules: weeding from weeds, digging beds for the winter,loosening of the soil and collection of larvae from the leaves. Such methods as spraying are used only in the event that pests were not prevented by avoiding the defeat of cabbage. If the damage is minor, then you can safely use folk methods. Otherwise, it is necessary to resort to stronger chemical preparations.