To get rid of some pests, it is not enough to buy an expensive and very effective remedy. To any chemical, sooner or later an insect adapts, but when you know the features of its life activity, the question is completely different. Therefore, the methods of combating cabbage moths do not end with the treatment of chemicals, but are based on an integrated approach.
Effective measures to fight cabbage moths
So, to deal with the cabbage moth, the fight should be based on prevention and remedies, and here it is just important to know about some of their features:
- take for the rule of always after harvesting all the plant remains to burn (it is in them that the pupa will spend the winter, it is permissible to cover only small vegetable debris in the soil);
- Among the methods of combating cabbage moths, prevention is always the first place, and you will have to go outside your site (this pest begins when you just prepare the beds for planting, and it will develop in weeds and grass, often along your fence; Therefore, all the grass along the site is better to mow);
- The struggle with the cabbage moth can also be passive (if there are lizards or toads with frogs on your site, they will gladly share such a delicacy as a cabbage moth);
- The second among the folk measures to fight the cabbage moth is planting clover, parsley, cilantro or mustard nearby (they will attract other insects that simply survive from the bed of moths, but do not harm the plantings).
If you still have to resort to the help of the chemical industry, then to fight the cabbage moth has its own list of working powders and solutions. Among the insecticides recommend "Carbophos", "Actellik" or "Amush", work "Nurell" and "Rippord".
To the safer for human remedies and fight against the cabbage moth include bacterial drugs. For the treatment of plantings we use solutions of Bactospine, Lepidocida, Gomelin and Entobakterina.