Who are apple tree pests and how to fight them?

Almost every amateur horticulturist has at least one apple tree on his plot. However, its fruits are obtained not only from the owner, but also from other representatives of our globe. In this article, we will touch on the topic of insects - parasites, so often spoiling the dacha harvest, and sometimes ruining the tree itself.

Pests of apple trees, devouring leaves

In the first place is red-headed and green aphids. These pests of the apple tree plant eggs from autumn, from which spring larvae appear, endowed with nature with an amazing appetite. Green aphids prefer to postpone their offspring on young twigs at the base of the kidneys, which begin to devour newborn parasites. It turns out that they take all the juice from the young leaves and shoots, which dry up and curl, stopping their growth.

Such pests of apple-trees, like larvae of red-headed aphids, adhere to the bases of leaves under the scales. The parasite sucks out the moisture, and in the place of its congestion a red tubercle is formed. The sheet is twisted, providing a house for the female founder, which will postpone the gluttonous offspring. But it is already mastering other trees in the garden, forming large colonies, killing all the juicy on its way. Such raids ruin trees, they cease to grow, the leaves dry and curl. If you do not take measures, then the plant will simply die.

Of course, aphids eagerly eat larger predatory insects, but "riders" plant her eggs to destroy her offspring. However, one should not hope for such a natural factor. It is better to treat the trees with special solutions in the spring. And if the aphids come to visit in the summer, the apple-tree can be irrigated with tobacco infusion.

They like to eat flowers and leaves such apple pests as a red mite and a badass. The latter is also afraid of tobacco infusion, but with the first will have to tinker. Mite very quickly develops territory, sometimes from its number the leaves of the tree appear red. At the first signs of its appearance, it is worth treating the crown of the plant with preparations with phosphates or colloidal sulfur. Well-suited to combat this parasite emulsion with natural oils, but you can use it up to three times a year, so as not to damage the tree itself.

Dangerous and such types of pests of apple-trees, such as moth-leaf roller, golden-goat, hawthorn, apple sawfly, quivered silkworm. All this detachment likes to eat young leaves and shoots, so pest control in the spring is simply necessary. A spray should be carried out until the buds and buds are blooming.

Bark lovers

Pests of the apple tree, the photos of which you see in the article (this is an apple-shaped comma-shaped shield, as well as larvae of a bark beetle) prefer to suck the juice, penetrating through the bark of the tree, as a result of which it dries and dies. With such parasites it is very difficult to fight, it is easier to prevent their appearance. Well, spraying with a solution of insecticides, which need to be done five days after the flowering of the tree, will help.

Apple eaters

The fruits like the apple sawfly and the apple moth. The latter plant on the fruit and on the foliage of larvae, which crawl inside the apple to the seeds. And they spoil not one fruit, but neighboring ones too. But the sawfly prefers the ovary, so it does not let the apples even ripen, eating their core. The larvae are destroyed by digging the soil, and the parasite itself is afraid of spraying with special solutions.

Good harvest!