How to deal with pepper pests
Pepper pests can interfere with good harvests. To avoid this, you need to know how they look, what harm they cause, and how to deal with them.
Pepper pest control
There are both folk and industrial remedies to deal with the problem. Consider what diseases and pests of bell pepper are the most common.
Aphid
The most dangerous of all nightshade pests.
It feeds on bush juice. Aphids can be seen on leaves, flowers and ovaries. Leaves curl or a sticky shiny layer appears on them. After a while, they dry up. Aphids also carry viruses, due to which diseases of the nightshade develop. The fight against these pests of pepper is as follows.
- Treatment with a solution of tobacco dust or wood ash. You will need a glass of dust or ash for 10 liters of water. The solution must be left for 24 hours. After that, it must be mixed. Then add one spoonful of liquid soap. This means you need to spray the bushes in the morning. Also, the solution will help in the fight against insects such as leaf-eating caterpillars.
- Treatment with special chemicals. It is necessary to act according to the instructions, observing the safety rules. Before starting the application, it is advisable to process one bush. If no deterioration in the condition of the leaves is noticed during the day, you can start processing the rest. You can use the following tools: Aktara, Commander, Corado.
- A solution of tansy or yarrow will also help.
- The beetle will be scared away by fragrant plants planted nearby. It can be onions, garlic, lavender, mint, parsley.
Spider mite
This beetle is no less dangerous and no less widespread than the previous one. Also drinks the juice of the leaves. It can be seen on the underside of the sheet.
You can treat peppers from such pests using this recipe. You need to take a glass of garlic or onions and the same number of dandelions. Then grind with a meat grinder. Dilute in 10 liters of water. Add a spoonful of liquid soap to the solution. Then strain the mixture and spray the bushes.
Naked slugs
These pepper pests eat the leaves. If the plant is small, it can be destroyed by pests to the ground. Because of them, you can see sticky translucent mucus on the bushes. The methods of dealing with them are as follows:
- It is necessary to get rid of weeds.
- You can treat the soil with superphosphate, a mixture of tobacco dust and lime, potassium salt. The procedure should be carried out in the evening with an interval of about 40 minutes.
- Special industrial preparations can be poured on slugs according to the instructions. Such funds have proven themselves well: Ferramol, Thunderstorm, Sludge-eater.
- They are also doused with hot water.
Whitefly
Insects can be washed off the leaves with water
When the whitefly invades the seedlings, they can lose their juice, since these insects feed on them. Such methods will help in the fight against them.
- Treat the leaves on which the whitefly is found with plain water. After this procedure, it is necessary to loosen the soil. It is necessary to sprinkle the soil with peat, humus or sand so that the layer is at least 2 cm.
- After harvesting, it is necessary to get rid of the bushes on which insects have been seen.
- If red bell peppers or hot peppers grow in a greenhouse, you can plant tobacco in it, which the whitefly loves very much. He will lure the butterfly away by distracting it from the peppers.
- The use of various chemicals will also be effective. Such means are suitable: Actellik, Confidor, Pegasus. The instructions for them should describe in detail how to use them.
Colorado beetle
It feeds on plant leaves. On our mainland, the beetle has few natural enemies, so it is very common. There are such methods of dealing with it.
- The most ancient and still relevant method is to collect beetles from plants in a jar of kerosene. You also need to get rid of insect eggs.
- You can dust the bushes with ash. It is best to carry out the procedure in the morning when the plants are wet with dew or after the rain has passed. You can also sprinkle ash on the soil between the plants.
- Sprinkle the soil between the bushes with pine or birch sawdust. It is important that they are fresh. The beetle does not like the smell of fresh wood.
- Vegetable extracts - walnut, poplar, sunflower, dandelion, bitter pepper will help in the fight against beetles.
- Spray the bushes with special chemicals. Such drugs will cope well: Killer, Destroy, Gulliver. It is important to follow the instructions for use.
Medvedka
Reaches 8 cm in length. The insect is not easy to spot as it hides at the slightest danger.
Destroys the root system of the plant. You can fight an insect in the following ways.
- Dig up the soil in spring and late autumn. This will destroy the moves of the bear.
- In late autumn, the pit should be filled with manure. These insects usually hibernate there. When the temperature settles below zero, you need to scatter the manure over the surface of the soil. Since the insects will hibernate, they will freeze. Manure traps can be made in the spring. Insects will lay their eggs there.
- You can plant garlic or onions near the bushes.
- Make a trap. A jar is placed in the ground, into which a small amount of fresh beer is poured. The neck should be at the level of the soil surface. The bear will be attracted by the smell, it will fall into the container. She will not be able to get out.
- Various industrial preparations are also used, such as Rubit, Medvetox, Tsipi. How to use them should be described in detail in the instructions.
Conclusion
When growing peppers, there is a risk that the plant can be attacked by diseases and pests. However, to date, many tools have been presented to combat them.
Some gardeners prefer to use traditional methods, considering them safer. Others, however, are more radical, resorting to chemicals that can be purchased in stores.