How to deal with aphids on honeysuckle folk and store tools

How to deal with aphids on honeysuckle is an important issue that gardeners have to solve. Honeysuckle is a stunted shrub with a quick ripening of berries. Harvested in mid-June. The plant is resistant to many diseases, but does not tolerate the aphid invasion.

Ways to fight

How to treat honeysuckle from aphids, all beginner gardeners think. Means must be effective and safe. As the berries begin to form in late May.

The modern market is filled with products from harmful insects, but it is necessary to use it on honeysuckle at certain times.

1. Insecticide-based chemicals Honeysuckle should be sprayed from aphids to leaflets. So that before the moment of active flowering there should be a minimum of 20 days. In this case, the shrub gets rid of pests, not allowing aphids to settle, give new offspring. It does not harm bees, other insects pollinating honeysuckle flowers. Re-treatment with insecticides is carried out after harvesting.
2. The second group of professional remedies for aphids on honeysuckle is biological products. They are based on the vital products of microorganisms, fungi, bacteria. Biologics are valid for 7 days. The excretion period from the leaves of the plant is 14 days. Berries are allowed to be eaten 5 days after processing.

To get rid of aphids on honeysuckle during flowering, during the ripening of berries you can folk remedies. Homemade preparations are made on the basis of strongly smelling ingredients and soaps.

On a note!

Delete aphids with a slight infection, it is possible by physical methods - to tear off damaged leaves, knock down insects from the stems with a stream of water.

Aphids

In early spring, the honeysuckle shrub should be treated with a broad-spectrum insecticidal preparation. Spraying is carried out using a garden spray bottle and a spray bottle.

A solution is prepared immediately before use. The required dose of the product is dissolved in 1 liter of water, mix thoroughly, add the rest of the liquid - up to 10 liters. Use the finished product for 2 days.

Important!

The treatment should be carried out in dry, calm weather. Use rubber gloves, a protective suit.

Any insecticide is allowed to be used, but most often it is:

• Actellik;
• Actar remedy;
• Spark;
• Karbofos;
• Eleksar;
• remedy Tanrek.

Repeated spraying is carried out after harvesting.

It is possible to treat honeysuckle after flowering with biological products:

• Spark bio;
• Arrow;
• Inta Vir;
• Fitoverm;
• Jaguar;
• Green soap.

Means are safe for humans, animals, earthworms. But it is necessary to observe the interval between treatments of 14 days.

Folk recipes

To fight folk remedies for aphids is allowed at any stage of the vegetation of the bush. Before eating berries, it is enough to wash them well under a stream of water.

• Pour onion husk 10 liters of water. Boil for 20 minutes, leave to insist under a closed lid for a day. Strain, add 100 g of soap base.
• Grate 200 g laundry soap or 100 g tar. Dissolve in 1 liter of warm water, add 9 liters of cool liquid.
• Mix in equal proportions food baking sodasalt.Add 10 liters of water and 100 g of laundry soap.
• Dilute in a bucket of water 200 ml table vinegar either 50 ml ammonia. At the end, add a soap base.
• Mix equal proportions of cinnamon, coriander, pepper, mustard. Pour 10 liters of soapy water.
• Grind garlic, pour cold water, insist a day, introduce laundry soap. Proportions do not play a role, but the garlic smell should be strong. Arrows of garlic from aphids scatter near the bushes of honeysuckle.
• Dissolve in 10 l of cool water wood ash or tobacco powder. Insist a day, add soap. Dry ash tobacco sprinkle aphid from the ground around the bush.
• Destroy aphids can decoction of some plants - tansy, wormwood, celandine, thyme. Cut the plant into small parts, pour 10 liters of cold water, insist 3 days. Boil for 1 hour. Add laundry soap.
• Aphids on honeysuckle with berries are afraid of the acidic smell of whey. The plant is sprayed or watered from a watering can with a wide nozzle.
• The fight against aphids is carried out by tincture of potato, tomato tops, spruce needles. Pour the ingredients with cold liquid, leave for 3 days. Boil over low heat for about 2 hours. After cooling to a comfortable temperature, soap is added.
• Aphids on honeysuckle are afraid of pungent odors of calendula, peppermint, marigold, citrus. A few drops of essential oils and soap are added to the water.

Without chemistry, aphids can be cured in 1-2 weeks. Spraying should be done regularly every 3 days. It is allowed to combine several active ingredients in one recipe.