We often admire the beauty and fluttering of butterflies, we consider them harmless insects. This is not entirely true, even in their family there are pests. These include the apple moth, the fight against which is carried out in any orchard.
What scary fruit moth on an apple tree?
It is a small gray butterfly. Damage to the harvest is not done by herself, but by her caterpillars, which hatch from the larvae left throughout the garden. They eat the leaves first, and then they go to the fruits, which are about 4-5 weeks. After that, they fall to the ground in the foliage, where the pupation process takes place. Then again a gray butterfly appears. This process for 1 season is repeated 2-3 times, so the apple moth must be fought, otherwise the whole crop will be wormy and you can even lose the garden.
How to deal with the fruit-eating apple tree?
If desired, the gardener from this pest can use chemical (Decis, Fury or Phytoverm) or biological preparations (tinctures of wormwood or burdock).
To ensure that the fruits remain environmentally friendly, it is better to destroy the moth itself mechanically. To do this, you can make sweet or pheromone traps for butterflies, and to collect caterpillars on the trunks to fix the sticky tape or trapping belts. In addition, collecting leaves and scraps from trees and digging around the trees helps a lot.
Measures to protect against moth-eaters
To prevent this dangerous pest from settling in your garden, it is necessary to attract its natural enemies - birds, which in summer significantly reduce the number of caterpillars. Also frighten off the fruit-tree from your trees will help planted between them phytoncid plants (wormwood, Lobel's chanter, tomato). Their tops can still be used for fumigation of trees. It is also helped by the establishment of a garden from apples resistant to fruit flies (winter and autumn).
Knowing who the apple moth is and how to fight it, you can easily protect your garden from it.