If you want to collect a good fruit harvest and keep the health of trees in the garden, you must protect them from small insects and rodents. Measures of the struggle are extremely simple - it is necessary to "wear" a special protection - a delicate belt. This is a very effective and affordable method of combating insects.
Perhaps, many novice subsidiaries have repeatedly observed such a funny picture, as in the trunk of the tree, insects are raised or descended. There is nothing good about that, because the invasion of the uninvited guests suffers from the tree and the yield is reduced. The trunk of a fruit tree is a transit path between two important objects for insects: kidneys and wood bark. Just in the folds of the bark, pests can swell, but feed on with leaves, fruits and crown trees. That is why it is necessary to establish special protection for trees, which will simultaneously be a peculiar trap for pests.
Depending on the season, the setting on the trees of special protective belts allows you to completely limit the access of insects up or back.
Starting from early spring and ending in deep autumn, the cattle belt for trees will only benefit. Naturally, it is impossible to count on 100% success and protection of plants from pests, since trees can attack not only creeping insects, but also flying. It must be understood, but still 40% of insect success can be calculated, and this is the safety of the same 40% harvest! And if you remember how much it was necessary to fight with a fruit, then this problem will be solved, and at the initial stage, when the caterpillars attack the lower trunks of the trees. By the way, the catcher "collects" a large number of "living harvest" - caterpillars that cause severe harm to apple trees and other fruit trees.
Types of catcher belts
Consider a variety of protection:
- Dry belt. It is made of coarse tissue (mainly burlap), rubber or corrugated paper. The width of the material is 20 cm. Before performing wood protection, you need to smell all cracks. Such preparation will not allow pests to climb through cracks under paper or dense cloth. The material is tested by the rope, the long ends do not cut - they must remain free (like a funnel). This is necessary so that the caterpillars from the bottom can not get up and dropped to the ground, and if they fill above, they will remain in the pocket-funnel. They are easy to assemble to destroy. By the way, such a dry belt can be fixed both with a rope and wire. Then there is no need to remove protection in the cold.
- A suicidal belt - the principle of manufacturing is similar to the previous type of leaky belt. The only difference is the basis of the protective belt is impregnated with insecticides. In order not to harm the tree, you need to use only permitted means. For the effectiveness of the work of the leaky belt at the top, it is additionally wounded by film.
- The adhesive belt consists of paper and cooked from certain components of glue. The belt is made and wrap the tree in the fall, so that insects descending down to the trunk and pests were delayed.
How to make a delicate belt
The perfect option is to buy a ready-made stretch belt, but when there are a lot of trees, it will be more expedient to make protection yourself. Matchy belt with your own hands is simple enough. In just a few hours you can "dress" in defense of 3-5 trees.
Dry belt
To work, it is necessary to prepare a strip (tissue, corrugated paper or rubber) 20 cm wide. The length of the material will depend on the thickness of the tree. Before you start taking trees, all existing gaps need to be smeared.
What you need to consider when building a dry catchery belt:
- To wake, it is more convenient to use the stretch film, especially when there is a wind on the street. Compared with scotch, it does not stick to the surface.
- Corrugated cardboard is better to use in autumn time - this way can be protected by fruit trees from pests who are looking for a secluded place to postpone the offspring there or settle for the winter.
- During the warm season, especially in the summer, the cardboard is better not to use.
What you need to cook for work:
- foam
- stretch film;
- scissors;
- knife.
How to wind up the tree:
- First prepare the foam rubber. It is necessary to measure the material with the margin to connect the edges on the tree is not a joint into the joint, but with a small margin.
- With the help of a stretch film, wrap the foam rubbed several times. 2-3 turns will be enough.
Must happen like this:
- Now take the film roll and not too tight, only to remove the gap in the area of \u200b\u200bthe edge connection, wrap the stretch foam strut. Make 3-4 turns. Cut the ribbon and carefully seen to the belt.
- A sharp knife you need to remove an extra ribbon over the belt in the upper and lower part. So our tree will be more accurate, and the bark will free from excess insulation.
This is what should happen:
This way of winding the curbs on fruit trees will save time.
Check the belt on each tree you need 1 time per week. It is worth considering that the trap will fall not only insects that cause damage to the tree, but also useful. Therefore, in order not to disturb the natural balance, you must carefully remove the belt and join the newspaper of useful insects. Now it remains to wait, when they themselves will enjoy. If pests remained on paper, they are certainly burned.
The second version of the manufacture of dry ski belt is in the form of a funnel. The material can serve as rubber. You need to take a sheet of rubber 5 mm thick. Dimensions of traps will depend on the thickness of the tree. Rubber turns around wood, edges need to be glued. It will turn out a peculiar little funnel, it needs to be filled with natural glue. It is prepared from the water, the leaves of fruit and vegetable oil.
Third version of the leather belt - gate. Make it as easily as the previous designs of the protective belt. This design is characterized by the fact that it remains almost inconspicuous.
How to make a dry lobby belt:
- Determine the parameters of the tree - we need to know the circle and measure 50 cm from the ground.
- Now you prepare the template - cut out a sheet of dense material (rubber, PVC film, etc.). The thickness of the material should not exceed 5 mm.
- The strip is wrapped around the trunk so that the collar is turned out. The edges preferably bend.
- In this "container" you can pour some vegetable oil. Some dackets boil a special fragrant decoction for pests from a small amount of water, the leaves of this tree and sunflower oil. The fragrant liquid attracts insects.
Superious Lovely belt
Such a protection for wood is made from any suitable material: corrugated paper, rogodes or burlap, impregnated with pesticides. This is the main difference between this type of protection. Many dackets try to avoid "poisonous" belts, because they believe that fruits can accumulate toxins. This is an erroneous opinion, since the adaptation is aimed at combating pests and is at the foot of the tree. Chemical components will not be able to get to the top of the plant.
The main advantage of the suid belt is in its high efficiency. Try to make protection yourself:
- It will take paper, burlap or tight cardboard. Strip width - 20-25 cm.
- Impress the belt with a yadogymicate allowed to use.
- Wait around when the tool is absorbed. Work in gloves.
- Secure the belt on the trunk so that you have the likeness of a funnel or skirt. That is, you need to fix the material at the top of the belt, and the lower should remain free - so pests will fall into the trap.
- So that the poison does not disperse, turn on the fabric or paper with polyethylene.
- Caterpillars and other pests, falling into the belt, be poisoned and perished.
This variant of the tracker is suitable for apple trees, since the main pests of a juicy crop - caterpillars will not be able to get to delicacy.
Adhesive belt
Adhesive or sticky belts are most often used in integrated pests. They help get rid of ants, small bugs and caterpillars. It is this category of pests that can "bypass" other types of traps.
The principle of adhesive leather belt is that a special glue is applied to the base (cardboard or wrapping paper).
How to make a sticky lip belly:
- Prepare paper or cardboard of the desired size (in the circumference of the barrel). The width of the workpiece is not more than 25 cm.
- One side of the belt to smear glue. It can be bought in a specialized store for gardening or cooked independently. As a sticky trap, you can use tar or resin.
- Secure the wire with wire on the trunk - the sticky side must be located at the top.
- All holes, gaps and passes must be smeared. For these purposes, it is allowed to use clay.
Making glue
Popular adhesive adhesive recipes for leaks are made on the basis of tar or resin. In the first case, the tar (2 parts) is mixed with 1 part of the rapid oil. Delet is brought to a boil and carefully, oil is injected with smooth stirring. The glue is cooked on a small fire for 5 hours.
Resin-based adhesive:
- Take 10 parts of a pine resin (zhivitsa).
- Add Vaseline - 1.5 parts and as much rosin.
- Components are thoroughly mixed. The glue is cooked on weak heat until it thickens.
The mixture to combat tracks is made as follows: take 200 g. Venerable oil, add to 100 g. The resin (can be replaced with wax) and solidol. Components are well mixed and warm on slow fire. When the mixture begins to thicken - glue is ready.
When it is not possible to collect all the components, you can purchase ready-made glue in a specialized store. It is not toxic, odorless and color. Designed specifically to protect trees, so it can be applied directly on the tree bark. The main advantage of such glue is that it can be applied both on dry and on a wet surface.
What you need to know
In the fight against insects, it is necessary to consider the following:
- In the place where the delicate belt is planned to be installed, a non-living boron needs to be removed.
- The cracks formed on the live cortex smear clay. If this moment is missing, then at the end of the summer, pests can get to the night or postpone offspring.
- The belt is superimposed before the kidney swell. This will help keep the future harvest from the apple trees.
- When the "move" of the blooming, it is important to check often the belt. The pests fell into the trap are knocked down to the film, which is pre-laid on the ground under the tree.
- Before starting the winter, the belt should be removed from the trees and burn.
Do not be lazy to install the curiy belt on the fruit trees and then you will have a shared crop of fruit.