Scoop - pest of tomatoes and not only tomatoes. How often do some pests attack the crop? It seems that you care about plants, but no, anyway, some bug will find a loophole to feed your crop. Caterpillar shovel - one of the most common pests, which, moreover, it is quite difficult to get rid of. Most striking is that the scoop is not particularly picky in its food and eats almost everything - tomatoes, aubergines, corn, peppers, beans and many other plants. But with special love she still gravitates to tomatoes, which suffer from the expression of her love more than any other cultures.
With such a "guest" in your garden you have to start the fight immediately. But let's take a closer look at the pest before we go to the methods of combating the scoop on tomatoes.
Scoop - caterpillar pest
To defeat the enemy, it must be carefully studied, to learn its weaknesses and strengths, so let's take a closer look at what kind of caterpillars are these that are very fond of eating your crop.
Winterworms in the pupal phase hibernate in the soil, but in early June, butterflies "hatch" from the pupae, which literally in three days begin to lay eggs on the leaves and stems of tomatoes or any other cultivated plants. Caterpillars most often appear from eggs in three days, but this directly depends on the air temperature. Then follows the development of the caterpillar, which usually lasts two to three weeks. During this period, the caterpillars, so to speak, eat everything that comes to their eyes. They damage leaves, stems of plants, but most of all suffer from tomatoes, eggplants and peppers, the fruits of which caterpillars eat with a huge appetite. Pitted scoop fruits rot, but even if you do not take into account this fact, the caterpillars cause so much damage to the fruits that there are these vegetables, it is simply not possible.
The struggle with the scoop on tomatoes and other crops is hampered by the fact that one generation of caterpillars is soon replaced by another, and so it happens all summer, and also the beginning of autumn.
How to deal with a scoop on tomatoes?
With the enemy you are now familiar, so it remains only to learn the methods of dealing with it. As it became clear from the acquaintance, protection of tomatoes from scoops is a complicated matter, as getting rid of this pest is very difficult because of the many caterpillars and they multiply rapidly. In addition, it is extremely inconvenient that the caterpillars get out on the "hunt" at night, and in the daytime they hide in the ground near the plants. This is due to the fact that the scoops are generally night butterflies. In general, in the fight against these pests it is necessary to connect "heavy artillery" - chemical treatments against pests.
So, what to process tomatoes from a scoop?
If you, when examining your beds, found eggs or caterpillars among the tomatoes, then sprinkle the plant with one of these remedies - Citicor, Decis, Spark, etc. About the means suitable for processing tomatoes from the scoop, you can ask in the store, where you will be able to advise which drug is best to choose. A week after the first spraying, it is necessary to carry out a secondary treatment.
In addition to such radical means, there are also preventive measures that are desirable to be observed. It is always necessary to remove weeds from the site in order to reduce the amount of pest food. In the autumn, you must destroy everything that was damaged by the scoop, and also carefully dig up the soil in order to reduce the number of pupae hibernating in it.
Knowing the fight against the scoop, you can "go out on the warpath" with the pest, while being 100% confident in victory.