Bark beetle - how to fight?

Any homestead land looks without trees sad and sad. These plants give a special charm and enliven your garden. And many trees also benefit, delighting you with their tasty and useful fruits. But like any representative of the flora, trees need care and care of the gardener: they are overcome by various diseases, severe frosts , arid weather and weeds . Among the unfavorable factors, pests are also released, which cause notable harm. To them, for example, is the bark beetle - a small insect with an oblong corpuscle and short antennae. If you have a bark beetle on your garden, how to deal with it - this topic is sure to bother you.

What is a bark beetle?

The damage caused by these insects is quite appreciable. He lives by feeding the bark of trees predominantly of coniferous species. Gnawing and drilling the strokes in the bark and bast layer of the plant, he pushes out the woody flour. It is these "labyrinths" that are destructive for trees, since they worsen their nutrition. In addition, in deep layers of trees the bug beetle lays the larvae - white worms, which also feed on wood. Basically, beetles prefer sick trees. By the way, weakened representatives of coniferous bark beetles feel at a distance of a kilometer - such a strong sense of smell. But sometimes pests do not mind living on healthy trees, especially those that have recently been transplanted or have not been treated with chemicals for a long time. Determine the affected tree is simple: holes on the surface of its bark are round and oval in shape, as well as small fines. And if it is red, the tree can not be saved. From time to time, in the garden plots and in the forests, the bug beetle is rapidly multiplying, which causes the destruction of huge plantations and even wooden structures.

Bark beetles: how to get rid?

As practice has shown, the easiest way to prevent the bark beetle from appearing. It consists in following the following recommendations:

1. Autumn or spring digging of the earth is necessary.
2. When harvesting the territory in autumn, all the leaves should be collected and burned.
3. Watch for sufficient watering and bait in your garden.
4. Every year in the spring, be sure to clear all the trees from old dry branches, dead cortex, treat their trunks with lime.
5. It is necessary to protect the trees by treating the bark with special chemicals against the bark beetle at the time of flowering (in April) and in the autumn when harvesting the site. By the way, it is not superfluous to protect wood from bark beetle in your buildings.

Usually, observance of these measures helps to avoid the appearance of a bark beetle on the site. It's another matter if you find traces of his being on one or more of your trees. There are several methods to combat the harmful beetle. The first method is based on the immediate cutting down of affected plants, as well as their mandatory burning. This will help not only to remove the bark beetle, but also to prevent the infection of other, still healthy trees. This method is usually used when the pest has long lived in your tree.

With the initial signs of defeat to save the garden you will be helped by the treatment of trees from the bark beetle from April to October with special compositions - insecticides ("Antizhuk", "Sherpa", "Biosept", "Clipper", etc.). The drug must be sprayed the entire trunk from top to bottom, conduct on all detected holes-strokes of the wire processed in the medium. By the way, this treatment is recommended from bark beet every two to three weeks, as the effectiveness of insecticides through this time interval is significantly reduced. By the way, If you want, you can call a specialist to care for individual trees - the arborist, who will inject the plant with strong compounds.

We hope that our recommendations on how to protect trees from bark beetle, how to deal with this dangerous pest, will be useful to you.