The struggle of folk remedies with weevil on strawberries

Many gardeners plant strawberries in their summer cottages. Moreover, such a berry is often damaged by various pests.Today we will talk about how to rid the culture of weevil with folk remedies.

This insect is a small-sized beetle (body is no more than 3-4 millimeters), so it is almost impossible to see it in the beds. He has a brown color. Insect covered with hair. In the head section of this insect you can see a small thin proboscis. With the help of his beetle produces its own nutritional juices from plants. Parasitic pest since the beginning of spring, when the temperature begins to rise. Therefore, early varieties of strawberries suffer most from the weevil. It feeds not only on the juice from the leaf blades of the bushes, but also on the berries themselves, the flower buds.

The appearance on the strawberry beds of this parasite shows several important signs:

• peduncles quickly begin to fall off;
• young leaves are formed with small holes;
• the base of the bud becomes brittle and breaks.

Currently, there are a considerable number of folk methods that will help people in the fight against insects on strawberries.

• Liquid with iodine. To prepare it, you need to mix one teaspoon of the substance and five liters of pure water in a container. The resulting liquid sprayed damaged strawberry bushes. It is worth doing in cloudy weather.
• A means of wood ash. This component should be sprinkled with soil around the plants. In this case, the ash will not only save you from the beetle, but also act as an excellent fertilizer for the fruit.
• Infusion with onion peel. To make it, you need to put the husks and fresh green celandine in the dishes. Pour it all with boiling water. The resulting composition should be left to infuse for one day. Then strain all and spray infusion of sick bushes.
• Soap solution. He can help get rid of such a beetle only in the initial stages. Laundry soap (200 grams) rubbed on a grater. It is dissolved in a small amount of warm liquid. But then the solution is poured into a bucket of water. All this is thoroughly mixed.
• Solution with liquid ammonia. He will be able to remove the harmful parasite when young buds are beginning to appear on the bushes. To make such a solution, you need to combine two tablespoons of alcohol with boiling water (8-10 liters).

• Broth with needles and garlic. Garlic heads crushed (0.1 kilograms). In this form, a mixture of garlic is placed in a bowl of boiling water and infused for five days. Then the composition is filtered and poured into a bucket of water. To the components put the extract of needles (350 grams) and boric acid (two Art. L).
• Decoction of tansy. Fresh stalks of this plant are crushed (1.5 kilograms). They are poured with liquid and insist so for several days. After this, the broth is boiled for 0.5 hours. All this is filtered. It is recommended to add soap to the solution for better effect. Processing is best done in the evening.
• Heat treatment. It is made, as a rule, in early spring. To do this, the water is heated (its temperature should not be below 70 degrees). She gently poured strawberries. Such processing can destroy all hibernating parasites, including the weevil.
• Broth red chilli peppers. In a saucepan with 10 liters of filtered water, place 1 kilogram of vegetable and draw for two full days. In this case, the dishes need to close tightly. Then the broth is boiled for 10 minutes. It is filtered and soaked them sick seedlings.

All these infusions are able to quickly rid strawberries from insect parasites. In this case, the funds do not scare away beneficial insect pollinators. These solutions also will not affect the level of productivity.

In addition to such common folk methods of dealing with this beetle, it is recommended to use special traps for them. To make them, sugar is spread in one liter of water (250 grams). To all this, add yeast (100 grams). All this is left in a warm place for fermentation.

The resulting solution is bottled with a narrow neck. These containers are placed along the strawberry beds. It is worth changing such traps once every 3 days throughout the activity of the malicious beetle. Also, many experienced gardeners in the fight against this pest are planting in their own dacha areas of the crop, scaring insects. So, often planted garlic or onions. Their residues can be used as a compost mass for strawberries.

To remove the weevil from strawberry bushes, Some rules should be followed:

• treatment against the parasite should be carried out in the morning (before 12 o'clock in the afternoon);
• it is necessary to fight such a pest by cutting and burning already deformed parts of plants until the parasite ruins the rest of the plant;
• in the fight against parasitic insects, the culture should also be processed in neighboring areas, because such a parasite can quickly migrate to them.

To the weevil does not appear on your strawberries, you should regularly carry out some preventive procedures.

• Conducting autumn digging. It will help get rid of all the pests that remained in the soil after winter.
• Mowing foliage. This should be done after the harvest.
• Timely care for strawberries. Do not forget to weed the beds, loosen and mulch the ground. This will reduce the possibility of weevil on the site.
• Planting strawberries further from raspberries. Otherwise, the parasite will constantly move from one berry to another.
• Using black covering material. Such a protective film allows the spring to create a soil-friendly microclimate in the soil that will destroy all parasites.
• Cleaning of old bushes, plant residues. After all, old plants serve as a favorable zone for the spread of harmful insects.

A simple way to protect against weevil, see below.