How and how to treat aphids on plums

How to deal with aphids in the sink depends on the height of the tree, the degree of infection, weather conditions, personal preferences. The struggle is conducted by folk means and professional drugs. Aphids on plums suck out juices, damage inflorescences, and make a tree vulnerable to many diseases.

Pests on the sink

Dwells on a tree several types of garden aphids.

• the body size of the insect does not exceed 2 mm;
• coloring black, green, brown, yellow, red;
• in mid-summer, individuals develop wings, which indicates the beginning of the mating season.

Life expectancy of aphids does not exceed 2 weeks. During this time, the female lays about 150 eggs. Larvae develop within a week, immediately after birth they begin wrecking. Insects feed on plant juices, leaving damaged, vulnerable areas.

Twisted, deformed leaves with spots, mold, rot appear on the plum. The lack of emergency measures calls into question the yield, plum health.

On a note!

Aphid wrecking begins with the arrival of heat, even before the leaves completely bloom. Green aphids continue to live throughout the plum growing season. In late August, lays eggs near the kidneys under the bark. In this state, the larvae hibernate.

Mechanical destruction

Destroy aphids at the sink at any time by mechanical means. For this, affected leaves are cut off, twigs, new sprouts. A stream of water under pressure is directed to an accumulation of insects, or sprayed with spray soap and water from a spray bottle.

In late autumn and early spring, they carefully inspect the trunk, plum branches for eggs and larvae. Around the plants they dig up the earth, watered with hot water, sprinkled with ash.

Favorable time to start the fight

It is necessary to monitor the condition of the tree all year round. Fighting aphids on the sink begins in early spring during sap flow. During this period, many pests wake up, larvae emerge from the eggs. To process the plant is not difficult, the aphids will not have time to lay new eggs.

Use of folk remedies is allowed at any stage of the growing season. Not prohibited during flowering. It is recommended to use safe means during fruiting. Chemicals should be used in early spring before the appearance of flowers, or in early summer after flowering.

On a note!

You can save the plum with insecticides in 1 day. However, it is always necessary to weigh the pros and cons. The toxic component remains valid for 20 days. If more time passes from the last treatment to the harvest, the person runs the risk of replenishing his body with toxins.

How to handle aphids on a sink, everyone decides for himself. There are only 2 ways - folk remedies, chemicals.

Effective folk recipes

You can spray the plum from small pests with a solution based on safe folk components.

• Vinegar. 200 ml of table vinegar are dissolved in 10 l of cold water, 50 g of laundry soap is added. To consolidate the effect, spray the plum after 3 days.As a preventive measure - every month.
• Tar soap. Remedies from aphids on plums based on birch tar can save a tree from rot, mold, fungi, and other pests. 100 g of tar soap are dissolved in 1 liter of warm water. Add 9 l of cool water. It does not hurt to process plums with fruits in the midst of summer, closer to autumn.
• Plum aphid is afraid ash. One of the applications is to sprinkle with a thick layer around the tree, dig up the ground, pour over hot water. This method will help get rid of aphids on the sink when there is a lot of it. Ash poisons the juice of the plant, but for humans such poison is absolutely safe, and does not affect the development of the fruit. The second option is to dilute 200 g of ash in 10 liters of water, add a soap base. To process a tree from a spray. Repeat every month for prevention.
• Helping aphids will help garlic. It is allowed to spray the plum at any time during the warm season. A glass of crushed garlic is added to water, insisted for a day, a soap product is poured, spraying is carried out. They rub the bark with the arrows of garlic, tie them to twigs, and scatter them around the garden.

You can also use:

• ammonia;
• soda;
• milk and iodine;
• Coca Cola;
• celandine;
• mustard;
• vodka;
• Green soap;
• Birch tar;
• tobacco;
• boric acid.

Folk remedies involve repeated processing. The frequency of procedures depends on the degree of infection in the garden.

Biological preparations

The active components of biological products are natural substances - the waste products of bacteria, insects, fungi. They act for 10 days, there is no instant effect. Preparations are absolutely safe for humans, non-toxic to plants.

You can process the plum after flowering:

• Acarin;
• drug Fitoverm;
• Entobacterin;
• means Tanrek;
• Spark;
• Actar.

Make a solution immediately before use. The product is poured into a spray bottle, watering can, a bottle with a spray. The choice depends on the number of trees, the height of the plant.

Chemistry Against Pests

Defeating aphids with a strong infection of the garden is possible with insecticides. The active ingredient is a toxic substance with a wide spectrum of action.

The drug begins to act directly during treatment. Plum pollinated aphids die within 2 hours. All other pests die in 2 weeks. The insecticide does not lose its properties for 20 days or more, depending on weather conditions. Re-treatment is carried out after 15 days if live parasites are seen on the tree.

On a note!

Aphids on cherry plum appear a little earlier, initially you should pay attention to this tree. Prune aphids are activated later. This is due to the movement of sap in the tree. The sooner this happens, the faster the tree becomes infected with pests.

It is necessary to spray the plum from the aphids in early spring, even before flowering, or immediately after it. During operation, it is necessary to use rubber gloves, a respirator, a protective suit. Re-treat in summer.

The most effective drugs:

• Karbofos;
• Dimetotad;
• Sharpei.

The disadvantage of chemical preparations is that they destroy not only aphids, but also beneficial insects, which will appear on the tree at the time of processing or action of the poison. For this reason, do not spray the plum before flowering. Insects die that pollinate flowers, plum productivity decreases.

To reduce the number of aphids on the land, to protect the plum from infection, it is necessary in parallel get rid of ants. It is they who spread the pests across all the trees. Attract to the garden ladybugswhich are the main enemy of aphids. To do this, just plant dill in the garden. On the site to grow mint, calendula, parsley. These plants repel aphids with a persistent odor.