Zlatoguska is a malicious pest pest, which under favorable conditions can destroy the entire harvest of apples, pears and other fruits. The right steps for prevention and treatment from this parasite will save the crop and enjoy their own fruits.
Description Zlatoguki
Zlatoguska (known as a golden silkworm, a gold, a golden) - a butterfly, a parasite, mainly inhabited in the gardens. It is a serious pest, and its destruction requires specific actions, so you should be able to distinguish it from other insects.
What do garden pests look like
Zlatoguska can visit your garden in the form of a butterfly or caterpillars. In any form, she is the enemy with whom you need to fight. An adult insect has a gentle white color of the wings, and the butterfly abdomen itself is covered with golden hairs, which distinguishes it from others.
Caterpillar is a woundless copy of the butterfly. It is also covered with burning golden hairs (no wonder the insect wears such a name). Its length is up to 40 mm. In addition, it is distinguished by the presence of red wart spots along the length of the body from both sides, orange spots at the end of the body and strips, which are periodically interrupted.
What gardens are most susceptible to attack
Zlatoguska is not bent by any fruit trees. But if there is a variety in the garden, it will first choose an apple tree. Caterpillars are especially developing in warm places, because it easily tolerate winter frosts, and in the summer climate contributes to their development. But you should not write it off with accounts and in the northern location, since Zlatoguk can be found almost everywhere where there are gardens.
Zlatogusky breeding cycle
Zlatoguska breeds in the summer when the butterflies fly out. They live about three months for which they mate and lay eggs. For 15-20 days, young caterpillars appear on 15-20 days, who have time to plot and create a housing for the winter twice. Up to 300 individuals can be gathered in one lair. With the onset of spring, they spread on wood and feed on foliage. In just this time, the caterpillar lines 4-5 times (depending on the floor) and turns into a doll when the apple tree flows.
Similar pests of gardens and gardens
Zlatoguska is not the only butterfly affecting the garden. In addition to her in the garden, you can find the unpaired silkworm, leaflet, hawker. It is noteworthy that their development cycles are similar, so you can fight with them the same methods.
How to deal with a caterpillar in the garden
If this question is bothering you, it means that the caterpillar of Zlatoguski in the garden has already appeared and flourishes. Do not delay until this time. Fighting pests should begin when they are still weak. But at any stage they can be defeated and save the crop.
Best selection - Prevention measures
Zlatoguska is not from those parasites that can be destroyed and not worry about their invasion again. If the caterpillar comes, then it makes it massively, so the fight against it should be careful. The most vulnerable Zlatoguska in the winter - the colonies of wintering individuals are going to bruised leaves that continue to hang on a tree, enveloped by the web. These dwellings need to be carefully removed by the secateur, collect and burn behind the territory of the garden. It will save him from the spring invasion.
Unlike hawkering, which creates spider sockets near the cuffs and residents, Zlatoguska makes them at the site of joining the sheet to the branch and sometimes combines several leaves into one socket.
Pest Controls
If the prevention measures are late, you will have to fight with already rapid individuals. It is not necessary to collect caterpillars manually - such a struggle with insect pests will not give. Arrange mechanical traps, namely:
- field the garden around the perimeter by making a small ditch. Caterpillars will try to climb through it and get stuck at the bottom. It is important not to forget every day to destroy them into the RWA;
- make a whitewash trees (bottom). Lime will prevent the caterpillage from the earth surface;
- use traps with glue in places of cluster of parasites. Glue best purchase ready-made in the store, but you can cook yourself.
If mechanical methods of struggle do not help, process the area with chemicals. The use of chlorofos in the dilution of 20 g per 10 liters of water and other insecticides is recommended. Successfully kill the Zlatoguki biopreparations (their advantage consists in the absence of negative influence on plants). For example, a good effect has endobacterin at a concentration of 0.5%
Important:the caterpillar of the Zlatoguska is poisonous, so you need to be careful when dealing with it. In the places of large clusters, you need to come in gloves and mask, since the hairs containing poison can soar in the air and hit the skin, respiratory tract.
Is there any chemistry?
I do not always want to fight insect chemical methods. So that it was not - follow the garden and take care of it. Winter and summer prevention of plants are important, constant inspection.
Do not rush to apply chemical methods of struggle. Use all possible mechanical options, attract birds into the garden, and if it does not help - treat the garden with the necessary insecticides.
In conclusion - video about methods of combating insects without the use of drugs and other tricks. Together with pets, and the harvest in the garden will be guaranteed!
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