Pest in the garden - a leaf roller. How to deal with it?

Many of us have garden plots, which we process and cherish. And what a joy at the time of harvest, because this is the fruit of your labor! However, this happiness can be overshadowed by various pests, among which the leaf roller. How to deal with this insect, we'll talk a little later, because you first need to learn to recognize it. Trees and shrubs affected by this pest, as a rule, have a number of twisted leaves, wrapped in cobwebs. This is the first sign that a leaf roller has wound up on your tree or bush. If you look closely at the leaf, you can see a caterpillar on it. It can have a color from brown to olive. These caterpillars eat leaves, buds of flowers, and with a large number of them - fruits.

That is why combating a leaf roller is an obligatory measure that every gardener should do when the first signs of a pest appear. However, the first "symptom" of the presence of this insect is not only twisted leaves. Anxiety should be beaten already at a sight in a plenty of ordinary-looking butterflies which size makes from 2 to 2,5 see On the appearance they differ from other similar essences. Their wings are folded horizontally, while in other butterflies this occurs vertically. In the people of similar insects are called "night moths".

And now let's move on to the main thing. What can you do if you find a pest on your bushes or trees? How to deal with it without chemicals? First of all, it is necessary to cut off the infected leaves, which are then burned. This will destroy the larvae that have been pest. In addition, the leaf roll has one enemy - the birds. Therefore, care must be taken that feathered friends do not fly over your garden plot by the side. In winter, they must be fed to keep in the garden.

In addition to the above, you can try to remove the caterpillars by hand. However, this will be difficult if the leaflet on the apple tree is located, for example. After all, not all branches of trees can be reached. That is why the most popular means of combating apple-apple leafworm is the use of insecticides. Since autumn, it is necessary to carefully treat the soil under the affected tree. This is necessary because most of these pests winter under a thin soil layer or in dry leaves (in the egg stage). If the trunk has areas with dead bark, it must also be removed and burned.

If a pest is detected, such as a leaf roller, on a currant or low trees, it is possible to spray with various solutions that do not contain chemical preparations. So, for example, for the fight you can use a decoction of wormwood or a strong tincture of tobacco. In addition, you can simply clean the damaged leaves with a paint brush moistened in one of the above solutions. Spraying can be carried out as a preventive measure. The solution can be prepared and based on other plants that have a strong odor or acrid juice. It can be onions, garlic, potato or tomato tops.

But when using folk remedies, we do not always get the expected result. What if the prepared solutions could not scare off such a pest as a leaf roller? How to deal in this case? It is necessary to resort to chemical preparations. Among the many tools offered to the buyer, the most popular are "Altar", "Furafon" or "Durban". The most powerful of them is the latter. But it has both its pluses and minuses. Use this drug is possible only before flowering, observing all security measures. Spraying should be carried out with gloves, as if it gets on the skin, it causes irritation. If the damage to trees or shrubs is very high, you can use such chemicals as "Accord" or "Fitrin." These drugs must be used before the formation of inflorescences, so that the poison does not fall into the fruit. They are applied at a temperature of no higher than 23 degrees Celsius, since the substances in their composition have a low evaporation temperature. They are more likely to destroy a pest such as a leaf roller.

How to deal with this insect yet? There are a number of folk remedies that you can also try on your site. So, for example, in the crown of trees at night you can hang a vessel with a fermenting solution (compote from dried fruits, kvass). Flying with a scent of leaf rollers fall into a trap. In the morning they must be destroyed and the bait removed. In addition, you can use a kind of "belt-traps" from the sacking, which are bundled tree trunks in the spring, and in the autumn they are removed and burned.