Probably everyone has seen huge flocks of birds in the field that has just been plowed. Birds are attracted by various larvae in the ground, most of all they like caterpillars with thick bellies that have a yellowish-white color. This is a May beetle larvae - pests of crops that are in the soil for almost four years. Most of them are near forests and groves. Before we talk about how to deal with cockchafers, let's learn more about them.
There are several types of these insects, the most harmful for personal plots is the western beetle, or, as it is also called, the beetle. It has a yellow-brown back and a black chest, a mustache with a mace of 6-7 plates. The length of the beetle reaches three centimeters. His eggs are oval white.
May beetles eat vegetable plants, leaves of fruit trees and shrubs, causing great harm to them, and their larvae spoil the roots of trees, shrubs, berry bushes and potato tubers. How to deal with May bugs? After all, they inflict a hugedamage to agricultural crops. And how harmful is the Maybug larva, how to deal with it?
To answer these questions, you need to have a certain understanding of the development of this insect.
With the onset of spring (when fruit trees begin to bloom, and the soil temperature warms up to about ten degrees), May beetles fly out of their wintering grounds. From April to June, they feed on leaves and ovaries of trees, then the females begin to lay eggs in the ground. Already in July, beetle larvae appear, which live in the ground for several years. At first they feed on humus, then they rise closer to the soil surface and begin to eat the roots of plants, quickly increasing in size.
Hibernate larvae sink deeper, next spring they come to the surface of the earth and begin to eat almost all vegetation. At a time when the larvae reach a length of almost seven centimeters, they cause irreparable damage to crops. That is why it is important to know how to deal with Maybugs and their larvae. Only in the third winter, the larvae of the beetle go to a depth of one meter and pupate. In the same place, beetles emerge from pupae in winter, which fly out to trees and bushes in spring.
So, how to deal with Maybugs and their terribly harmful larvae?
There are several popular ways to deal with these pests. You can shake the beetles themselves into kerosene and burn them, use lighttraps. To destroy the eggs of the beetle, you should regularly loosen the soil - they do not like this. You can pour bleach under the trees, a decoction of onions and garlic, a solution of iodine. May beetle larvae cannot exist near mustard, radish, radish and cabbage, so it is worth planting these crops near fruit trees and bushes.
How to deal with Maybugs with chemicals? To achieve good results in this uncompromising struggle, you can use the Russian chemicals Aktara, Pochin, Zemlin, the Ukrainian Antikhrushch and the Swiss drug Bazudin.
