How to deal with peach pests

Peach trees can be attacked by garden pests (aphids, shchitovki, moth, weevil, etc.).

Peach pests damage leaves and shoots, slow down the development, ruin the crop and can lead to the death of the plant. To avoid this, you must:

• timely detect the occurrence of pests (each pest has its “own” handwriting by which it can be calculated);
• take appropriate action.

Pest control measures include certain agrotechnical activities (autumn and spring digging, getting rid of fallen leaves, cleaning the bark, pruning shoots, spraying with milk of lime, setting traps, etc.) and chemical treatment of peaches from pests with special preparations (for each type of pest it is necessary to choose a specific insecticide).

Weevils

Weevils and their larvae cause serious harm to the peach tree - gnawing young leaves, buds, damaging young buds and flower ovary (gnawing on petals, pistils and stamens), suffering fungal diseases.

The fight against the weevil includes primarily preventive measures (competent preventive actions will provide reliable protection of the garden). Prevention is as follows:

• viewing and checking the branches of garden trees, checking the seedlings (especially the ground clod);
• competent planning of plots with crops vulnerable to weevils in different parts of the garden;
• autumn and spring digging the earth around the peach, cleaning the old bark;
• spring whitewash with lime milk (1.5 kg of slaked lime per 10 liters of water) of the lower part of the stem (during the period of swelling of the kidneys);
• installation of a trap belt on the trunk (from the ground to the first branch);
• pre-spraying the buds with a water mixture of soap and mustard powder (can be replaced with wood ash);
• planting garlic-onion beds around the peach (a pungent smell deters the weevil).

If prevention of pests did not help, and the weevil still wound up, most often apply the biological (natural) and chemical (insecticidal) methods.

Biological method more safe for plants and pollinating insects (bees):

• The use of natural enemies of weevils - for example, nematodes can be used from May to June. The drug with entomonematodes in the form of a powder ("Antonem-F" or "Nemabakt") dissolves in water. Then peach roots are watered with this solution. Nematodes with water penetrate into the weevil larvae and kill pests.
• "Morning" manual collection of bugs - in the morning, when bugs are still slowed down by coolness, you can shake them from the branches on a spreading blanket or oilcloth.
• Removal of damaged buds (visible on the brown top).

If safe methods did not lead to the desired result, you need to apply more radical means - spray buds with insecticides.

Application depends on the drug, but the first time needs to be processed a week before the disclosure of flowers (drugs "Karachar", "Fitoferm", "Iskra M"), a number of drugs allow triple use - before flowering, the last flowering phase and 10 days after flowering ("Fufanon", "Kemifos", "Novaktion", etc.).

Before use, you should carefully read the instructions. Normal fluid flow is from 2 to 5 liters per tree.

Pliers

Mites (red spider webs, common, etc.) feed on plant sap and can not only reduce peach yield, but also destroy the tree.

The tick on the peach is almost invisible - its size is up to 1 mm. They live on the inner surface of the leaves, fruits, and shoots.

A signal of their presence is the appearance of a web between the leaves, on the stems (on the spider webs, mites can be carried by the wind to other trees).

In hot summer, ticks multiply rapidly (from eggs to adults - seven days). Ticks do not like rain, coolness and dampness.

Regular preventive measures (whitewashing the trunk, trapping belts, destroying the fallen leaf, etc.) reduce the risk of tick infestation of peach, but do not guarantee 100%.

Therefore, it is necessary to systematically inspect the leaves and branches of trees. If signs of ticks appear, take action. In the not neglected case, you can offer effective popular methods of struggle (without heavy chemistry). This spraying:

• solution of tobacco. The solution is prepared from a kilogram of tobacco dust (sold in garden stores) and 20 liters of water (it is better to first dilute to a uniform state in a bucket), add 50 g of soap (for better adhesion). It is necessary to spray twice with a seven-day break;
• infusion of chamomile (insist 12 hours a kilogram of chamomile in a bucket of water). It is also necessary to process twice with a week break.

If a tree has been subjected to a mass invasion of ticks, then insecticides and acaricides will come to the rescue. Spraying is carried out twice - after the appearance of the ovary and a month before harvesting (this will make it possible to destroy the larvae and adults first, and then hatched from the eggs).

The most effective means:

• colloidal sulfur (per 10 l - 80 g) - is processed during the growing season from 1 to 6 times (each subsequent treatment - every other day);
• "Phyto-farm" (per liter - 15 ml) - 2 times during the growing season (the second - after two days);
• "Neoron" (10 liters - 15 ml) - once in 45 days before harvest;
• "Karate" (10 liters - 5 ml) - 2 times during the growing season (the second - after 20 days).

Moths

The moths pose a serious threat to the young shoots and to the harvest (if the fight against these pests of the peach is late, then all the fruits may die). Most often, peaches fall prey to the eastern and plum moths.

Oriental moth

Harm from the eastern moth is reduced not only to damage to the fruit. Caterpillars devour young shoots, carry fungi (including ascomycete, causing moniliosis). The first signs of pests are:

• gum on young shoots, longitudinal cracks, their lethargy and dying off;
• wormhole on the surface of peaches.

In the fight against the eastern codling moth, agrotechnical, natural and chemical means are used:

• agrotechnical measures are prophylactic and health measures - in the evening, dead bark is cleared, dead leaves are removed, padalka, damaged shoots are cut off, and in the autumn the ground around the tree is loosened. Traps are also used - glue with pheromones for males (the effectiveness of this technique is small), belts on the trunk of impregnated matter (one percent chlorophos);
• natural (biological) - with the use of Hymenoptera Trichogrammes (egg-eating riders who parasitize on Codworm eggs) - during laying eggs;
• chemicals are used against each generation (including after harvest). Benzophosphate is a strong agent against the eastern pinwort (10 liters - 60 g) - sprayed three times (the interval between treatments - 15 days) after flowering. They also use "Chlorofos" (10 l - 20 g), 25% "Rovikurt" (10 l - 10 g), 10% "Karbofos" (10 l - 60 g) and others. Normal consumption is up to 10 l mixes on an adult tree and 2 l on young.

Plum moth

Plum moth larvae affect peach fruits: the pulp and the core of the bone are eaten away, the vessels from the stem are broken (the inflow of juices stops), the fetus begins to wither, sings prematurely and falls.

The first sign of the presence of a plum moth - the massive fall of green peaches with wormholes, as well as the appearance of lumps of spiderwebs on the fruits and leaves.

The protection of the peach from these pests by agrotechnical and natural means is similar to that applied to the eastern moth. With a small number of pests, it is advisable to use the Bitoxibacillin biopreparation (40-80 g per 10 l) against each generation.

The use of chemicals has its own specifics:

• processing is carried out until the appearance of caterpillars (with the appearance of clumps of web) - "Intavir" (one tablet per 10 liters);
• against second generation caterpillars - Fufanon, Sumition, Novaktion (but not less than 30 days before harvesting).

Moth

The garden moth and its larvae (especially the miner moth and the fruit striped moth) pose a serious threat to the buds, young shoots and peach leaves.

Mining Moth

Mining mole reduces the viability of peach, inhibits growth, reduces the yield of the plant. Signs of defeat moth - premature yellowing and fall of the leaves damaged by the larvae. On the leaves - the characteristic spots, mines (in the form of tunnels, spots, etc.).

Mining mole has dimensions of about 4 mm. The female moth lays up to 90 eggs from the back of the leaves, from which the larvae gnaw out mines in the leaf plates (the skin is not damaged). Miners overwinter in bark injuries, under fallen leaves.

In the fight against the mining moth, an important role is played by the cleaning and destruction of fallen leaves, autumn whitewashing of the trunk, digging, washing away with a stream of water during the summer of butterflies.

As a natural insecticide used tincture of red pepper (boil an hour, for 10 parts of water - 5 parts of pepper, then insist for a day). 10 l - 125 ml tincture, add 40 g of soap. Spraying is carried out twice, with a gap per week.

The use of these funds does not guarantee complete release from the pest; therefore, chemical preparations are used from molar pests of the peach (for spraying the leaves, entering into the soil, and injecting into the stem).

These are drugs that affect the development of insects (Dimilin, Insegar, Match, etc.) and organophosphate and organic insecticides (Bi-58 new, Zolon, Konfidor Maxi, etc.) .

Fruit Striped Moth

The caterpillars of the fruit moth are distinguished by their gluttony (one caterpillar is capable of killing 5-6 shoots), devouring the buds, leaves, eating the seeds of young peaches. Caterpillars hibernate, climbing under the bark of a tree, in its folds, crawling out during the budding period.

The first butterflies appear in June, laying eggs at dusk. The ripening period is two weeks. In late August, butterflies of the second generation appear.

Among the ways to combat pests occupy a large place agrotechnical (pruning of affected branches and shoots, cleaning fallen leaves).

During the bud formation, the peach crown can be sprayed with an emulsion with industrial oil 1-20A, "Karbofos" (10 l - 30 g) or "Chlorophos" (10 l - 20 g). During egg laying, foliage can be treated with phenoxycarb-based chemicals, and the task of how to get rid of moths on peach temporarily recedes into the background.

Aphid

Aphid is a sucking type insect.With the defeat of aphids young shoots wither, dry, lose leaves, the tree begins to hurt. Signs of aphid presence:

• clusters of aphids (buds, bottom of leaves, young shoots);
• sticky liquid (pad), covering the leaves;
• the twisting of the tips of the shoots;
• the formation of buds and fruits ceases;
• a large number of ants (they are attracted by the pad).

For peaches, green, black and striped peach aphids are particularly threatened.

Green Peach Aphid

Insects of light green color, small size (1.5 mm), form colonies. Especially great damage is caused by green planting to young saplings: it pierces the leaf with a proboscis and sucks the juices (the leaves become discolored, twisted, fall off, the flowers fall off, the seedlings can dry out).

Damaged shoots freeze out in winter, mushrooms settle on the paddy, tree beetle beetles appear on weakened trees.

You need to start to destroy aphids with methods softer for a peach tree:

• agrotechnical: cutting of root shoots, weeding or mowing of vegetation, cleaning the bark, removing aphids by hand or with a strong jet of water;
• biological: use of natural enemies aphids (ladybugs, wasps, hoverflies, etc.). Planting nettle, onions, herbs and others. In addition, effective (in the initial stages) use decoctions and dandelion infusions (400 g leaves insist 2 hours in 10 liters of warm water) garlic (300 g minced garlic in 10 l of water to insist 20 minutes), onion peel (150 g husks per 10 liters of water, insist 5 days, add 50 g of soap) and etc.;
• chemical: spraying with pesticides. In the fall - Bordeaux liquid (2%), in spring, before or after flowering, - Bordeaux liquid (1%), a mixture of thiazole and fotiol, "Dipterex". With the advent of the fruits - "Bi-58 New", "Actofit" (8 ml per liter of water), etc. In the spring, you can kill aphids after winter with DNOC (once in two years).

Striped Peach Aphid

Striped aphid on a peach sucks the juice from the bark and shoots (the bark becomes sticky), the leaves on the top shoots wrap, turn red and fall.

The name aphid received because of 7-8 dark stripes on the yellow-green torso.For winter, the eggs remain in the cracks of the bark, the larvae appear in early spring (first generation).

First they feed on the kidneys, then on the leaves. The mass appearance of striped aphids - in the second and third generation. In autumn, females lay two or three eggs and die.

Ways to combat striped peach aphids are similar to how to deal with green aphids.

Shchitovka

Shchitovka - an insect pest living on a peach. A sinus feeder sucks juices from the bark, lays eggs in it, winters also in the bark. Of the different types of flaps, mulberry and Californian shchitokis are a particular danger to peach.

Signs - wilting and twisting of the tops of the shoots, loose and porous bark in the habitats of the shields, shoots cease to bear fruit. The red spots on the fruits of peaches are a sign of the California scale.

The control of the shield can be done manually: by detecting the scutes, it is possible to destroy the pest (if the tree is still small).

Agrotechnical measures — thinning of crowns, destruction of infected shoots, destruction of root shoots, are effective in fighting the shield.

A reliable, proven remedy is the treatment of a plant with tincture of tobacco (400 g of tobacco insist in 10 liters of water for a day, 2 hours to boil, add 50 g of soap and pour another 10 liters of water).

At the end of April, it is possible to combine spraying against weevils and scale insects (the same preparations).

From mid-June to mid-August, there is a massive hatching of strollers. This is the best time to use one of the insecticides (DNOC 40%, Iskra-M, Aliot, Inta-VIR, Kinmiks, Fufanon). After a week, you can repeat the procedure, but with a different drug.