Caterpilts on the pine - how to deal

Lush pine - the perfect decoration of a private house or garden plot. Coniferous trees are resistant to pests and diseases, which can not handle ordinary garden plants. But the pine there is a problem - the caterpillar devouring the needles. In just a few days from the lush pine branches remain bare sticks with brown granules, which are crawling caterpillars. Save the green beauty and return to her appeal.

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What pests destroy the pine?

Pine trees attacked mostly pine sawfly caterpillars. They feed on the needles. Adult females needles penetrate the epidermis and lay eggs there. For one laying female can lay 1,500 to 2,000 eggs. Over the summer, sawfly produces two generations and significantly spoil the pine.

If the needles on a pine tree has turned yellow and started to fall - a sign of the emergence of sawflies. On the branches of a tree, you will see the sawfly larvae, adults are like flies and they are hard to notice. Caterpillars eat all the needles, leaving stubby stumps. They eat only the old pine needles, but the young pines can still recover from the attack of pests.

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Prevention of caterpillars on pines - especially

In late autumn digging up the ground around the pines. Caterpillars turn into a chrysalis is in the ground. Dig to a depth of around seven to ten centimeters, but not to damage the root system of pine.

Plant flowers in the garden. They attract natural plants defenders - ants, ground beetles and various Hymenoptera. These insects are destroying caterpillars.

Alternate pine to deciduous shrubs and trees during the landing. This will complicate the female sawflies search of food.

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Fight with little caterpillars on pines

If sawflies on trees or little they struck pine neighbors, your actions are as follows:

• constantly examine trees. Caterpillars love warm and dry days. In the rain, they die. Follow the weather forecast and examine trees to the larger heat;
• attract on the birds of birds eating insects. This is a cuckoo and many others, eating caterpillars, birds. Color the dupels and birdhouses, feed the feathers;
• use greater tape. Verify the trunks of the pines at a distance of 15 cm from the ground with a widespread ring of paint tape. Pre-apply special glue to the catch of rodents and ants. Buy glue in the garden shop. This way will help catch caterpillars descending from the tree to the ground for the next stage of development - they will stick to the tape. The larvae will not be able to rise from the ground to the tree. Destroy the caterpillars;
• collect pests manually. The method is effective with a small amount of sawers. Work in gloves and glasses to prevent allergies. Blood can be allowed to protect the larvae, it is a strong source of allergic reactions. After collecting immediately burn the caterpillars so as not to apply further.

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Fighting a large number of caterpillars on pine

If the caterpillars on the trees are very much, try the following ways in the fight against them:

• use food bait. The embankment with ferry additives is set once, and an integer summer is effective;
• remove from the tree and immediately burn damaged branches and kidneys. Will undermine a large old oilcloth under the pine, get dry and burn the fan broom. Then we treat a tree with a solution of liquid soap;
• use special preparations. In stores for gardeners you will be offered a large amount of biological preparations and chemical insecticides to solve the problem. Most effective - accomplishing, lepyocide, arrivo, alatar and others. First Test the drug on the same tree. Carefully learn the instructions or consult with the seller. Treat pines using all security measures.

Do not allow the transformation of caterpillars into an adult person, it will reduce the likelihood of pest attack the next year. Destroy the larvae on the pines, and you will return to green beauties for the same attractiveness.