Potato pests and control

Potato pests, as well as pathogens of itdiseases are bacteria, fungi and viruses. Often, many of them are able to develop due to habitat conditions. We will talk about the diseases of vegetable crops at another time, and today we are interested in pests. Among especially dangerous garden parasites, the following are noted:

• Colorado beetle,
• wireworm,
• the bear.

In this article we will tell you how to deal with them.

Pests of potatoes: wireworm

Description

It's a worm. Often you can see how fresh potatoes are literally permeated with some black moves. This is the result of the activities of the wireworm. His moves are a real misfortune for potatoes! You will not get rid of cleaning the tuber. It will be much easier to throw it away! But you will not send all the potatoes into the trash! So you need to take action urgently! Fighting potato pests is not an easy task, but only for those who do not know how to do it!

Fighting the Wireworm

Often add ash, chalk and lime to the soil. Excellent means - dolomite (calcareous) flour. Soak the soil in this way once in four years and necessarily in advance of planting the potatoes. You can use the ground eggshell. Regularly scatter it throughout the site throughout the summer. In this case, the wireman will not hurt your crop any more, be sure.

Pests of potatoes: the bear

Description

This is similar to a river cancer insect harmsunderground parts of cabbage, tomatoes, and in root crops (potatoes) in tubers, it consumes huge cavities that rot with time. In addition, the parasite most severely bites the stems. Protection of potatoes from pests led by a bear takes place through the use of manure traps.

How to deal with the bear

Lay out all over the area fresh dung heaps. 2 to 1 hundred square meters of land. There will certainly be a bear. After 20 days, check these heaps and destroy the insects that have got into them! The fact is that these parasites are very attracted by the smell of fresh or overgrown horse and cow dung. It is for this reason that they should not fertilize the garden as a bait. Attract to the site of the bear.

Pests of potatoes: Colorado potato beetle

Description

Of course, this is the most dangerous pest ofavailable. It is distributed almost all over Russia. Potatoes themselves do not damage the beetles themselves. All the harm comes from their larvae. So, how to deal with this pest.

1. Use special chemical preparations for spraying.
2. Do not forget about the manual collection and destruction of beetles and their larvae.
3. You can prepare yourself a poison. Pour a solution of carbofos into the bucket with potato peels in the ratio of 2 tablespoons of the preparation to half a liter of water. Dampen these cleaning. When planting potatoes, lay them in the holes (depth - 30 cm). Hungry and overwintered Colorado beetles gather in these holes, absorb poison and perish.
4. Very good decrease in the number of Colorado beetles, if in the morning pollinate the tops of clean and sifted wood ash (ratio: 2 tablespoons per 1 sq. M.).