Fighting carrot fly

Fighting garden pests - the most painful question. Most of the gardeners, acquiring the plot, do not suspect how many tests will have to go through to collect a good harvest. Fighting with carrot flies is not easy, it affects carrots and other roots. To get rid of this pest, you need an integrated approach.

Prevention and joint landings will help scare this gardened pest. For example, to leave the uninvited guest, you can sow the carrot seeds together with the bow, two-way protection will be obtained. So, onion phytoncides scare off carrot flies, and carrots - onion pests. Let's learn more, what methods can be used to clear the area from pests.

What does an insect look like

The adult part grows up to 5 mm, the belly in the flies of black with a greenish tide, the rest of the body are yellowish. The larvae in flies are yellow, the body is elongated (size up to 6 mm), with a pointed front part.

Carrot fly. Photo:

Adult pests appear on the garden already in May, when the apple tree begins to bloom. After sowing carrots, the fly does not immediately hurry to taste young seedlings. As soon as the first leaves appear on the sprouts, the fly is equipped in this place more comfortably to postpone the eggs. For the season, only one adult female is able to postpone more than 100 eggs!

By the way, it is the larvae that are the main pest of carrots. They feed on young leafy of plants, as well as roots, and when a juicy flesh appears, hesitated into carrots and tear in it.

How to find out, settled on your site a non-crude guest or not? Just put next to the beds where the carrot grows, a saucer with a disheveled bread kvass. The day of the fly is not too active, as it does not like the heat and sunlight, but early in the morning or in the evening it will come out of the shelter to enjoy.

After 3-4 weeks from the moment of the masonry of eggs, small insects appear from the larvae. The process of masonry eggs lasts 3-4 months. There may be a small gap between generations (from 8 to 14 days), but it is extremely rare and not every year. So you have to tune in to fight insect all summer, right up to deep autumn.

During the summer, the larvae develops and have time to postpone eggs. It turns out that for the summer period, carrot fly has time to develop in several generations.

Winter pests in rootfields. The larvae is not so easy to see, even when collecting the harvest of carrots and a detailed inspection. Together with rootes, pests for wintering are sent to the repository, and there are gradually destroying stocks. The larvae can stay for the winter in the soil and easily transfer even severe frosts. With the onset of spring, young flies are selected on the surface and go to search for food. By the way, the fly feeds not only by the root of carrots, it strikes celery, parsley and even dill.

Since the favorite harm of the pest is a wet and shaded plot on the garden, then sow in such places carrots should not be. Choose well-lit and blossomed areas.

You can distinguish an affected root from a healthy on the characteristic shade of leaves - the leaflets of carrots become violet or red, over time yellow and dry. Orange root roof is covered with dark areas - tubercles or spots. If you cut carrots in half, then inside you will see the dark tunnels of the larvae.

Most of all are attacked by unsweetened varieties and varieties with large and long root corners. By the way, small vegetables, as well as with the increased content of sugar, also do not remain without the attention of pests. If you decide to plant several types of carrots on the summer cottage, then all varieties fall into the risk group.

Carrot fly prefers to settle on wet areas, near the water and in those places where it is always dark and damp. Wet areas are most susceptible to the attack of carrot flies.

Preventive pest control measures

In periods of mass reproduction of pests, there is a big risk of staying at all without harvest. It is important not to miss the moment of active growth of the root of the root, when several first leaves appear from the ground. If this period is missing, the garden culture produces its protective properties - a plant cannot get rid of pests completely, but carrots fabrics begin to be gradually reborn and root roots become hard and dry. If you try carrots affected by pest larvae, then it will taste the bitter (due to numerous moves, the skins of larvae and feces) and tough.

If the roots are strongly amazed, they are unable to fully develop, as a result, it is possible to collect a crop of strongly twisted, pulled and small root crust. The carrots infected with larvae cannot be saved, it will quickly deteriorate and rotates.

These simple recommendations will help you in the fight against insect:

• preparing the soil under the sowing of carrot seeds, in no case make a fresh cow manure in the ground;
• if organic fertilizers were introduced into the soil, then sow umbrella cultures only for the next year;
• preparation of seeds before sowing: 2 weeks before the day of sowing it is necessary to leave carrots seeds in water (temperature +37 ^oWITH). Let us leave the seeds for 2 hours, and then lay out on a wet marla or cloth (you can take linen), lay the seeds in the bag (can be plastic, just need to make several holes so that the seeds do not prohibit). Package Put on the bottom shelf in the refrigerator or on a glazed loggia, leave for 10 days. A few days before sowing, the seeds need to get, deploy and dry;
• for disinfection and hardening seeds, planting material can be kept in solution with the addition of growth stimulants, and then mix with dry sand and sow into a wet land;
• early sowing of umbrella cultures will help to avoid carrot fly infection;
• seying seeds of carrots are needed on open, sunny plots;
• the soil should be light;
• seying too thick seeds are undesirable;
• timely removal of wild umbrella plants will help to get rid of the addition of pests. Understand clover and dandelions with the root.

In the fight against carrot flies, all methods are good if you will constantly loose the soil between the rows, it will help to leave pests. Just make sure that the roots are not taken out and abundantly water the soil before loosening. When the earth dries, eggs and pest pests will die. Thus, you can get rid of most pests.

Do not forget to ride the plot in a timely manner. As soon as the plant reaches a phase of 2-3-leaves, you can break the carrots, remove weak and damaged sprouts, leave only strong and healthy.

After thinning, you do not need to leave the tops in rows, it attracts pests. Weeds, sprouts and damaged roots should be attributed to a compost bunch or bury.

We observe the crop rotation - in the same place the carrot 2 years in a row is better not to plant, as well as in those places where other umbrella cultures were grown. In the soil, pests will remain in the wintering, and the new harvest is attacked with the onset of spring.

Mulching of the soil between rows of sown carrots with a naughty peat. 1 M. ² You need to put 0.3 kg of crumbs. Carrot fly does not like peat soils.

How to deal with carrot fly

It is possible to fight with garden pests and in such ways:

• before sowing, treat the seeds by the biopreparation (the "phytocide", "Triphodermin" or "nitrogen");
• to destroy most of the larvae, after cleaning the garden, do not be lazy to switch the soil, turning the earthy layer. So you can destroy most of the insects, they are not able to get on the surface from depth;
• we support moderate watering soil. The main rule is better to displaced water than to pour carrot beds. In wet soil, carrot flies develop faster;
• the correct crop rotation will help to avoid mass infection of carrot fly. Carrots are desirable to sow next to tomatoes, onions or garlic;
• we scraps insects with vegetable preparations. If you treat carrots with dry mustard or take black or red ground pepper for dubbing, then such an attack carrot flies will not stand. By the way, it is possible to use crushed tobacco in the fight against the garden pest;
• how to quickly get rid of carrot flies: make such a solution: you need to grind 3 bulbs and pour boiling water (enough 2-l). Let us leave the mixture for the day, and then dilute this infusion, the proportions are as follows: 10 liters of water and 2 liters of infusion. The aisle and plants need to be sprayed with the resulting solution;
• well scares the fly wormwood. We prepare this solution: fill the bucket of fresh cut wormwood, pour boiling water (10 liters) and leave it. When the mixture completely cools, you need to divide the solution into 3 parts, strain and dilute 1 part with water (8 l). The resulting solution is processed by aisle and spray a bed with carrots;
• you can bother pests with the help of tomato tops. It must be poured with water (4 kg per 10 liters), boil on slow heat for 5 hours, leave overnight, and then strain. To the resulting solution, we will add liquid soap (50 ml) and 3 parts of water. All, the solution is ready, they need to handle outwards and all umbrella plants;
• haired lime, plus tobacco powder and wood ash in the same proportions will help in the fight against garden pests. Powder you need to sprinkle the soil between rows every 2 weeks;
• spraying with influences obtained from herbs you can also scare the carrot fluff. Make a plane blade, chamomile or wormwood and treat beds with carrots. The pest does not like sharp odors;
• in the fight against the fly, the natural repellent will help - the infusion of onion husk. It is necessary to treat plants and beds immediately after thinning the first shoots and each time after weeding. Put the third part of the husk in the bucket, pour boiling water, wait when the mixture will cool. Now it can be strained and obtained with a mixture to water the beds. Husks do not throw away, spread between rows, it will scare the pests;
• locking around the edge of a row with carrots of plants with a strong smell: garlic, onions or velvets will also help scare insects.

All means are good in the fight against garden pests. If you decide to use shopping drugs, remember that it is necessary to start fighting the pest during the growing season. Do not use the same drug several times in a row to avoid addiction. After harvesting and processing rooteplood, you need to wait 3 weeks, after which you can eat carrots.

Tune in to fight and stop, just so you can get rid of garden pests. And yet, if I wanted to taste the carrot directly from the bed, it is not necessary to leave the tops on the ground, since the strong smell attracts insects.