In April-May, aphids appear on roses. The pest damages the growth point, and then moves to the stems and bud. He joins the flower with a thin proboscis and sucks all the juices out of it. The plant takes on an ugly appearance - its leaves are covered with sticky secretions, dry, curl, and are affected by the fungus. The buds do not open, and the bush itself begins to die.
Folk remedies
Gardeners recommend using any folk remedy>. “Grandma’s recipes” are based on natural remedies that are preferable to poison. Folk remedies for aphids on roses are mainly safe and can not harm the plant, humans and useful insects that pollinate flowers or loosen the soil.
Interesting!
It can be difficult to remove aphids because they are bred black ants. They use green aphids as a “cash cow”. Foragers collect a sweet pad and eat insects when their number begins to increase rapidly.
It is not enough to poison plant louse (as the pest is often called in everyday life). Necessary destroy ants and anthill. Only then will it be possible to preserve beautiful flowers.
Coca Cola
Soda is able to clean the metal from rust, so it is not a problem to destroy aphids.
Coca Cola prepared as follows:
- three spoons of liquid soap are poured into the bottle;
- the solution is shaken;
- wait for the foam to settle and pour the composition into the atomizer.
The product is sprayed with the product until the leaf becomes wet. Instead of the advertised soda, you can take the usual inexpensive lemonade.
Kerosene
Kerosene helps to remove aphids. 2.5 ml of the substance are taken per 10 liters of water. Laundry soap on a fine grater. The solution should be slightly sticky. They are treated with bush leaves before flowering, and after a day, flowers are abundantly watered with water to wash off kerosene.
The substance helps to repel ants and their “milk cows” from roses.
Ammonia
Ammonia from aphids is used when it is necessary to destroy the pest. Six tablespoons of the drug are diluted in a liter of water. The product should be sprayed with roses once a week until the insects disappear.
Vodka
Vodka from aphids is not diluted with water. You can immediately put on a spray bottle and spray roses from aphids on the inside of the foliage. Buds and flowers are best left untouched.
Laundry soap or grated soap is added to the vodka.
Celandine
Celandine from aphids is a safe and effective remedy. An herbal infusion is prepared from it according to the following recipe:
- take 400 grams of fresh or dry leaves;
- fill them with a liter of water;
- insist the drug for a day, and then boil for 30 minutes;
- cooled broth is filtered.
Leaves on roses in the garden spray the infusion of celandine.
A nicotinic acid
Nicotinic acid helps well from aphids and caterpillars.For five liters of water, take 2.5 tablets of the drug. It should be sprayed with a solution of rose, and the pests will disappear after five to ten days.
Soap solution
The aphid soap solution has proven itself well. Two teaspoons of liquid soap and 50 grams of solid are taken per liter of water at room temperature.
On a note!
Better to use laundry soap dark color. It has no harmful fragrances and will not harm the plant.
Aphids are fought every evening. After two weeks, the pest will disappear from the flowers and buds of the rose.
Soda
Soda used as a solution. 30 grams of powder are taken per liter of water. Young shoots with aphids are dipped into the product for 10-15 minutes.
This simple recipe allows you to save roses and not damage the flowers.
Lemon and Orange Zest
Peel is removed from the fruit and poured with hot water. For 300 grams of peel, you should take one liter of boiling water. The infusion should stand in a warm, dark place for three days.
The finished solution is sprayed with leaves on garden roses.
Vinegar
Aphid Vinegar is an effective remedy, but it can burn young leaves and delicate rosebuds.
To prepare the solution, take 10 liters of water at room temperature and two tablespoons of the product. The substance is sprayed with leaves or watered from a garden watering can.
Tar soap
Tar soap helps from aphids. It scares away garden ants and destroys pests that suck juice from the plant.
The solution is prepared according to the following recipe:
- kilogram ash pour 5 liters of boiling water;
- the solution is brought to a boil, removed from the heat and cooled;
- add 30 grams of tar soap to the product.
The substance is sprayed on the stems and foliage of roses.
Iodine
Iodine from aphids destroys pests if mixed with milk. To prepare the solution, you should take a spray and a syringe. A liter of water, 100 milliliters of milk and half a cubic iodine are poured into the bottle.
On a note!
Iodine and milk preparation able to protect roses from pests and rid the plant of fungal damage.
Garlic
Aphid Garlic destroys harmful insects and drives away with its pungent smell foragers.
For the solution, you should take 100 grams of peeled and chopped cloves of the plant and three liters of water. The infusion is kept in a dark and warm place for three hours, then filtered and adjusted to a volume of six liters.
Serum
Aphid serum is applied undiluted. Aphids, which are located on leaves and rosebuds, are watered with it.
Serum can be mixed with iodine, which will improve its effectiveness.
Blue vitriol
Copper sulfate from aphids helps if it is combined with urea. The product is treated with a plant in the spring, when the air temperature reaches 5 degrees and lasts for 3-4 days.
For the solution, 350 grams of urea, 25 grams of copper sulfate and 5 liters of water are taken.
Chemicals
If getting rid of aphids on roses with folk remedies does not work, then you should use store chemistry. You need to buy drugs that have the appropriate certificate, and whose shelf life has not yet expired.
On a note!
Chemicals should contain instructions for use, which will indicate the dosage for various plants and pests.
Chemicals against aphids can harm a delicate flower, so treatment must be done before the first buds appear.
Aktara
The medicine is available in the form of a powder and has an intestinal contact effect. If the aphid has attacked the rose, then Actara drug quickly deal with it.
To destroy the pest, a solution of five liters of water and one package of powder is prepared. The plant is sprayed from the spray gun until the leaf becomes wet. Particular attention must be paid to the inside of the leaves.
Aktara from aphids belongs to the drugs of the third class of danger. You need to work with her with gloves and a respirator.
Karbofos
Karbofos from aphids should be used in dry and calm weather.It is safe for plants, but you need to work with it in rubber gloves and a mask.
To start etching aphids, you need to prepare a solution of 75 g of powder and 10 l of water. About a liter of the drug goes to one bush.
Spark bio
Created drug Spark based on natural substances that paralyze insects. It can be used in greenhouses and outdoors. It is used if aphids have appeared on roses. To process the rose, a solution is prepared from one liter of water and five milliliters of poison.
Fitoverm
Used during the growing season and flowering. Apply it on the street and in the greenhouse. For spraying roses, 4 milliliters in one liter of water are bred.
During work with the drug, you should not drink, smoke or eat. Poison pests should be worn with gloves and a respirator when the weather is dry and calm.
Many gardeners believe that drug Fitoverm the best cure for pests.
Inta Vir
Penetrates into the body aphids through its membrane and affects the nervous system. Handle roses from pests with this drug only at a positive temperature.
Make a solution according to the following instructions:
- one tablet is dissolved in a glass of water;
- the volume of the solution is adjusted to 10 liters.
Roses are sprayed in dry weather when there is no wind before flowering.
Prevention
Aphids are often carried by ants. Therefore, for prevention, it is not enough to inspect the rose and remove suspicious leaves and buds. It is necessary to deal with those who spread the harmful insect.
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Aphid lookslike a small green tubercle. Representatives of the ant family often scurry around her. They breed pests to feed on their sweet secretions.
Ant control methods may include the following:
- Put poison baits and traps near the bushes.
- Sprinkle the rosary with sawdust soaked in lavender oil.
- Treat the soil with semolina and millet.
- Place scotch tape near the bushes, sticky side up.
You can destroy the anthills themselves. In this case, there are many methods of fighting folk remedies, chemicals, transferring a colony to another place.
Aphids on a home rose
Pests can appear on the home rose, which is located in the apartment. They get to the plant from the street. A person may notice that white aphids appeared on leaves or buds. Later, green, larger individuals will appear.
On a note!
Photos of aphids on roses demonstrate that the plant is attacked by pests of different sizes. These are larvae, young and adult individuals. They differ from each other in appearance.
The most effective remedy in the event of a pest attack is folk recipes:
- If the aphid eats a rose, the plant should be dusted tobacco powder.
- Sprinkle roses with an infusion of orange peels (per liter of water 100 g peel).
- Insist a day a tablespoon mustard powder in a liter of water. Strain the solution and spray it with a flower.
- Aphids on a room rose will disappear if the plant is treated with a soap-garlic agent. To prepare it, take a chopped head of garlic, a little soap and a liter of water. The tool is infused for three hours at room temperature.
If the aphid did not have time to breed, then it is removed from a Chinese rose by hand or washed off with ordinary water.
You can handle the rose at home and poison. The following preparations are suitable for use in apartments and enclosed spaces:
- Clear sheet;
- Guapsin;
- Bankol;
- Commander
Any drug is used according to the instructions on the package.
Some gardeners use dichlorvos from aphids. There are two ways to use it:
- A loose bag is put on the plant, under which Dichlorvos is sprayed. The flower is blocked by fresh air for two hours.
- Half the bottle is sprayed directly into the water. The resulting product should be watered roses from aphids.
Prevention of pests should be done. Then you do not have to think about how to process roses from aphids.To do this, it is necessary to inspect the flower and remove dry parts from it, and place new indoor plants in quarantine for three weeks.
There are many ways to combat aphids on roses. But you should first try folk methods, and then buy chemicals. Yet the flowers and insects that pollinate them do not like poison.