How to deal with the cyclists in the country

Until recently, Ukrainian gardeners and flower growers had no idea what a Tsikadka is.

But already today, the South American guest has spread in such quantities that it has become a diverse threat to cultivated plants.

How to recognize a parasitic insect in your area, how to deal with it and continue to prevent it from going to your garden and to the garden - we'll tell about it later in the article.

Small pest - big trouble

The distribution of tsikadok contributed to the active import of foreign plants. Botanists now number about 20 thousand species of these insects. They are distinguished by bright colors, spotting and food preferences.

Outwardly, these are small, 1 cm in size, jumping butterflies that feed on the sap of cultivated plants. Their danger lies not only in the weakening of vegetation in the garden, in the garden and flower bed, but also in the spread of viral infections, damage to plants by poisonous saliva and egg laying.

If she doesn’t do anything, she will destroy the entire crop in the garden in a season, and in the garden she will need only 2-3 years to do it.

Both adult pests and its larvae are endangered by the cultivated flora. They pierce young leafy plates, take the juice and nutrients from them, and inject poison in return.

As a result of such vital activity, the foliage begins to turn yellow and become deformed, the culture lags far behind in growth, white or red spots appear on it. The plant gradually withers and dies. And butterflies breed very quickly. For an adult insect to grow from an egg, it will take about 20 days. During the growing season, several generations of tsikadok are born. They easily adapt to unfavorable conditions: bad and cold weather they wait in the ground without damage to themselves.

Main types

The peculiarity of voracious moths lies in the fact that representatives of different species can live on neighboring beds, since some may prefer tomatoes and others - potatoes. Consider what species are common in our area.

White

Externally, these moths are distinguished by white semi-rigid wings, slightly covered with small yellow or gray specks. Insect does not go over food. White cicadas are most often seen on grapes, figs, raspberries, plums, potatoes, gooseberries, peppers, tomatoes, corn, apples, and wild rose.

In the household farms there is practically no plant that the sucking parasite would not eat. He also adores lindens, maple and boxwood.

The white variety has spread to the Caribbean islands. Today, farmers from the entire American continent of the northern hemisphere are fighting with it, up to Brazil and Mexico. The end of the twentieth century was marked by unpleasant news for farmers in Europe and Asia - a white cicadas stalked all the gardens and fields, it was necessary to urgently take measures to fight jumping moths.

The insect is very comfortable in moderately warm and dry climates, it can adapt to a long drought. In the process of feeding, an omnivorous insect produces a sticky, cotton-like substance that thickly covers the affected leaf plates, blocking access of oxygen.

Over time, these places are observed sooty mycelium, which prevent photosynthesis.

Drooling pennitsa

Scientists attribute this species to the family of cicadas-pennits. On the fields and in the gardens of his representatives can be found from the beginning of the summer until the very autumn. The insect has already conquered the extra-tropical territory of the Eurasian continent, North America and North Africa. It can also be found on the cold Kamchatka.

Moths have a multi-colored color, the length of their body barely reaches 6 millimeters. They prefer to lie down in a tier of grass in a wet environment.

Depending on the color, scientists distinguish between many forms of pest. Light brown and black-yellow butterflies with different stripes and shapeless spotting are not uncommon in our area. In general, the form of a slobbery penny is subdivided into 20 pure and 4 mixed forms.

Sucking the juice out of the vegetation, the cicada produces a lot of foamy saliva, due to which it got its name.

Green

Outwardly, this is a hemiptera moth, whose body length reaches 6-9 millimeters. The front wings of the parasites are bright turquoise in color with a white border at the edges and thin black stripes on the veins. The color of the head varies from brown to light yellow. Females differ from males in brown tinge of wings and large sizes. Insects feed mainly on plant sap, and, without busting, attack both herbal and woody crops. In the last decade of August, until November, the laying of eggs begins near the canopies.

They can be seen on wheatgrass, lake rush, rush, melklepolestiknik. In the spring there are nymphs. Reproduction of the species depends on climatic conditions, but does not exceed 3 generations per year.

Green cicada prefers moist areas, so it often occupies coastal areas and swamps.Once in the garden, the first thing they attack is peaches, mulberries, plums, apples, cherries, grapes and pears.

The true companions of insects are the bacteria Xylella fastidiosa, which cause disease in plants and destroy vineyards.

Black point

This species of parasitic insects is distributed throughout the northern hemisphere of the planet. Externally, they are tiny jumping butterflies of yellow or dark green with clear brown specks, black belly and yellow legs. At length, the pest barely reaches 3.5 millimeters.

He adores mint, sage, beans, clover, catnip, sunflowers, wormwood, potatoes and eggplants, peas, dahlias, chrysanthemums, basil, parsley and celery.

During the mating season, females lay 8 eggs every day, which ripen in 10 days. You can notice the clutch on the inside of the leaves of chosen plants.

Buffalo

A visitor from North America is very dangerous for vineyards. Its appearance was recorded in 1954 in Moldova.After 5 years, they learned that a buffalo-shaped cicada was already in Armenia, and a year later - in Georgia, Azerbaijan. By 1960, the moth reached the Ukrainian Transcarpathia.

Scientists note that initially the pest preferred the wild-growing abode on the forest plantations of ash, willow, maple, poplar and blackthorn.

But soon all garden plants entered his diet. He especially loves to feast on young saplings. Representatives of the species differ from their counterparts with heightened gluttony and terrifying appearance.

Outwardly, it is a green insect, up to 7–10 millimeters long, with jumping hind limbs, folded with a crib-like webbed wings, bulging eyes, and a solid shield that is at the same time neck and back.

There are specific pointed outgrowths on both sides of this hump-like pronotum, which are very similar in shape to bovine horns.

If you disturb adults, they do not express aggressiveness; on the contrary, they fly away.

The laying of the eggs of the female buffalo-colored tsikadki produce strictly in 2 rows up to 12 pieces under the bark of young trees.In this case, the fibers of immature plants are severely damaged, and gum leakage begins from wounds.

Pathogens penetrate into moth-pierced piercing, destroying metabolic processes. As a result, the surface of the affected area dies off. You can notice it by ring-shaped constrictions on young stems.

Occasionally the insect moves to more mature sprouts, where there is more juice.

How to deal with a pest

Getting rid of the unwanted guest in the area is not so easy. It matters a comprehensive solution to the problem. And in order for the efforts made to give the desired result, you need to act on a clear algorithm:

1. Immediately at the first signs of the life of the insect, remove all the damaged shoots and burn them.
2. Stop root and foliar plant nutrition.
3. To treat infected cultures with insecticides (Aktara, Bi - 58 New, Fufanon, Aktellik, Permethrin, Bona Forte, Kinmiks) or 30% solution of karbofos.
4. Spraying start from the lower shoots, gradually moving to the top.
5. After sprinkling, the foliage of garden vegetation should be sprinkled with wood ash.
6. During the period of fruit ripening it is impossible to use toxic chemicals. If the pest made itself felt just then, without waiting for the harvesting, disinfect the plants with garlic tincture (a glass of cloves missed through the garlic box on a bucket of water).
7. On balcony plants that have suffered from cycadocas, it is necessary to wash the leaves with "30 plus".

Prevention

The most effective prevention is competent agricultural engineering. Do not be lazy to thoroughly study all about the necessary conditions for the plants in your garden, in the flower bed and garden. Carefully take care of them.

Do not allow the growth of weeds and accumulation of moisture. Vegetable culture in time thin out. In the autumn, harvest not only the harvest, but also the tops of the leaves that have fallen, regularly clean trees from old and dead parts.

Periodically organize garlic-soap irrigation. Some gardeners share the experience of preventive spraying of garden specimens with Ditox, Danadim, Tagore, Tzipi plus.The procedure must be done before bud break and repeat somewhere in the second decade of May, when moth larvae appear.

Sicada is very poorly deduced, so do not count on a one-time result after the first sprinkling. For the final result will require a long hard work for several years. In order not to get acquainted with the voracious insect, the main thing is to always keep your site clean and carry out timely preventive measures.