2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
How sweet is the raspberry harvest, and how bitter it is if insect pests enjoy the fruits of his labor instead of the gardener! What kind of parasites strive to settle on our raspberry plantations and how to protect their personal plots from these uninvited guests?
The implacable enemy of the gardener, the raspberry beetle
The raspberry beetle is the most dangerous enemy of the raspberry plantation. If such a parasite starts on the site, the gardener runs the risk of being left without a crop at all. Unlike other pests, which can partially cause damage only at the larval stage, this parasite, in the form of a beetle, gnaws at the leaves of the bush, so it is necessary to study its habits and wage an implacable fight against the pest.
The raspberry beetle prefers to winter close to the location of its food. With the arrival of cold weather, it hides in the ground next to the bushes, lying at a depth of about 10 cm. At the beginning of June, you can notice its active vital activity - at this time it is taken for eating raspberry leaves. During the flowering period of the perennial, females begin to lay eggs. And the new generation in the larval phase feeds on juicy berries. Then the cycle ends and the parasite hibernates.
To protect yourself from such an unpleasant neighborhood, in the autumn and spring months it is worth digging the soil on the plantation to a depth of about 15 cm. During the budding period, the bushes are sprayed with a solution of karbofos. Also, in the fight against the raspberry beetle, treatment with Confidor helps.
Why is the raspberry-strawberry weevil dangerous?
This parasite will gladly eat both raspberries and strawberries. It begins its harmful life activity in the spring, making holes in young leaves. And when it's time to breed, they lay their eggs in the buds of plants. The larva feeds on a flower that has not yet blossomed, and the buds begin to dry out and fall off the raspberry bushes. But the trouble doesn't end there. A new generation of weevils again attack the leaves, and then, with a clear conscience, go to winter, hiding in the fallen and dry foliage.
To clean your site, you need to make it a rule at the end of the season to collect and remove fallen leaves from the site, to dig the row spacings. When there are doubts that the plant areas are infected with a parasite, it is better to play it safe and burn the trash.
To protect raspberries from the invasion of parasites, during the appearance of buds, it is recommended to process the plantings with a decoction of wormwood. For its preparation, 1 kg of raw materials is poured into 3 liters of water. Bring to a boil and leave for 10 minutes over low heat. The resulting broth is filtered and diluted with water to obtain 10 liters of solution. The product will stick better to the plant if you add 50 g of grated laundry soap to it for stickiness. After picking the berries, the raspberries are treated with a solution of karbofos.
Should you fight raspberry gnats?
An adult raspberry gnat does not pose a danger to raspberries, but its larvae - a shoot gall midge - disfigure the stems of the bush with huge cones and greatly harm the volume of the crop. In the next phase of development, the larvae leave the raspberry to hide in the ground and wrap themselves in a cocoon. After overwintering, the next spring the mosquito that fluttered out of the cocoon again strives to quickly occupy the young shoots of raspberries.
To curb the annoying parasite, in the autumn and spring, the land on the raspberry plantation is dug to a depth of about 10 cm. In spring, young shoots of raspberries are recommended to be sprayed with a solution of karbofos for preventive purposes. And if the gall midge nevertheless settled on the branches, they are cut off at the very soil and sent to the garbage, which should be burned.
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