How to deal with caterpillars

Usually, gardens and orchards are exposed to the invasion of caterpillars during the summer months. Especially pests like plants with smooth and delicate leaves. If the caterpillars are small, you can try to collect them from the plants by hand and destroy them.. But this method is quite laborious, and if there are many caterpillars in the garden or they prefer trees, then fighting with caterpillars in this way will be ineffective. How else can you deal with caterpillars?

A rather effective method is spraying plants with insecticides, that's just not all want to spray chemicalinsecticides plants, the fruits of which then have to be used for food. Therefore, let's talk about how to deal with caterpillars using more safe methods for health.

To get rid of caterpillars on fruit trees, you can smoke trees with smoke: this is a more "advanced" alternative to manualcollection of caterpillars. You need to take a heat-resistant vessel and fill it with hot coals. Coals should be sprinkled with a mixture of two parts of sulfur and one part of the resin. Then smoke the trees with smoke from below, most of the caterpillars will die and fall to the ground. Please note that fumigation of trees should be carried out in windless weather.

You can also fight caterpillars by spraying plants with harmless broths and mixtures. Well helps with decoction or infusion of wormwood wormwood. To cook the infusion, fill a third of the bucket with shredded leaves of wormwood, pour water to the edges, insist for three days. Ready extract infuse and spray them with plants.

To prepare the broth, take 1 kgwormwood and boil for 10-15 minutes in a small amount of water. After cooling the broth, strain it and bring the volume to 10 liters with cold water. Directly before spraying, add 40-50 g of soap to the solution. To combat caterpillars on radish, radish and cabbage instead of wormwood broth, you can use decoction of green leaves of a large burdock.

In the decoction of wormwood for greater efficiency can be added infusion of chamomile. Half a buckwheat of chopped leaves of a wormwoodwater, leave for a day, then boil for half an hour. Half a bucket of chamomile pour water and insist 12 hours. Obtained infusion and broth strain, mix and add 70 g of soap.

Another spray option is spraying with infusion of tobacco with soap. Fill the tobacco with water in a ratio of 1:10 and insist for a day. Then strain the infusion, dilute with cold water and add a liquid soap at the rate of 40 g of soap per 10 liters of water. Spray the plants with the solution obtained.

Instead of dealing with caterpillars, you can prevent them from appearing on your site. Usually caterpillars do not like plants with a pronounced characteristic odor, rich in essential oils. Therefore it is necessary to plant on a site spicy greens(dill, garlic, onion, parsley, coriander): so you and other plants will be protected from caterpillars, and fresh greens will always be on the salad. Still caterpillars do not like the scent of Solanaceae: tomatoes, potatoes, aubergine, tobacco. Near the trees you can plant tansy.

It is also necessary timely and proper pruning and thinning of bushes and plants: the overgrown thickened crown, which prevents the penetration of air and sunlight, creates favorable conditions for pests, including caterpillars. To protect against creeping caterpillars, to dig a garden around the perimeter with a narrow and shallow groove: the caterpillars can not overcome it and fall inward. Every day, the groove should be checked and the caterpillars accumulated there destroyed.

As you can see, it is possible to deal with caterpillarsand without the use of pesticides: folk remedies are often quite effective, especially if you combine several ways to control pests. Have a good harvest!