Pest control on the site: scoop. How to deal with the winter scoop with folk remedies How to destroy the scoop in the garden

When a small, dim butterfly, a scoop, appears in your garden, you should be wary, as its caterpillar, very voracious and omnivorous, can cause great damage to the crop. More than a hundred species of scoops harm various plants in our gardens and dachas: gnaw, garden, winter, cabbage, swamp, etc. And despite the large number of existing methods of fighting scoops as garden pests, they spread very well.

All cutworms, their butterflies and larvae, are active only at night. According to the method of nutrition, they are divided into:

leaf-eating (cabbage, alfalfa, garden) live on the ground;
gnawing (winter, swamp, gnawing, wild) lead an underground lifestyle.

Getting rid of the scoop is not easy, as it is unpredictable and harms various plants: tomatoes, beans, cabbage, swedes, turnips, corn, sunflowers, rhubarb, onions, beets and even garlic, cereals, and especially winter crops - wheat and rye.

Methods of dealing with scoops

Gardeners in the fight against armyworm use different methods for each state of the armyworm: butterflies, caterpillars and pupae.

How to get rid of a butterfly owl?

hang at a height of 1 meter pheromone traps or containers with fermenting kvass or (then be sure to add a little water and fermenting liquid);
destroy weeds, especially flowering ones, which leads to the depletion of scoop butterflies due to the lack of nectar for food.

How to get rid of caterpillars and pupae?

digging for the winter and loosening the row spacing is very effective, as they hibernate in the soil at a depth of up to 8 cm;
collect larvae by hand;
alternate planting (for example: potatoes with black fallow);
spray with insecticides: in spring - Decis, Karate, Proteus, Fury, and in summer with organophosphate preparations - Fufanon, Zolon, Dursban, Danadim. The rates of use depend on the form of release of drugs (granules, powder, emulsion concentrate). Use, observing the dosage indicated in the instructions, carry out processing in the evening, no later than a month before harvesting. No more than two treatments are allowed per year;
applying granulated Bazudin when planting potatoes (15–20 kg/ha) in moist soil is an effective control measure against caterpillars of the nibbling cutworm;
spray with biological preparations Agrovertin, Aktofit, Fitoverm and organic insecticide Natur Guard.

How to destroy the scoop folk methods?

Its effectiveness depends on the timely start of the fight against scoops. The most difficult thing is to determine the time of appearance of pests in order to establish the correct timing of the start of treatment. If you are late with spraying for a few days, then after the penetration of the caterpillars into the fruit, the treatment becomes practically useless. It is possible to predict the development of harmful insects with the help of pheromone traps, which help to determine the period of mass arrival of cutworm butterflies and the appearance of caterpillars.

When gardeners have questions “who gnaws onions, cabbage or potato tops”, then it may be time to get to know such a pest as the winter scoop (Agrotis segetum) and determine suitable measures to combat it. The appearance of a winter scoop on the site promises a long and painstaking work to protect against a voracious and arrogant pest. The butterfly itself will not bring any harm to the site, but the caterpillars are a real horror for plants and gardeners.

How to understand that a winter scoop started up on the site

Abrupt and sudden wilting of plants.
The stems are gnawed right at the base.
Caterpillars themselves can be found next to damaged, weak and withering plants. But they don’t have a certain color, they can be completely different shades, interspersed, striped and without. However, they are often gray in color. Caterpillar droppings are also visible near the plants on the ground.
There are bald spots on solid crops.

The habits are the same as those of the cotton bollworm: in the daytime, the caterpillars hide. Their ideal time to eat is at night. The list of plants they prefer is huge, and in one night they are able to destroy plants in a large area. In root crops, caterpillars gnaw out large areas of pulp, gnaw seedlings and even seeds.

You can fight the nibbling scoop without using any drugs, but you need to have time before they breed. Having missed the moment, the invasion of caterpillars will become a natural disaster, which will be too difficult to deal with.

Winter scoop and measures to combat it

Winter scoops develop in 2 generations. Caterpillars of the last age hibernate in the soil at a depth of 20 cm. In spring, they rise to the upper layers of the soil and pupate in such small earthen holes. In the second decade of May, the flight of butterflies begins, which also lead a nocturnal lifestyle.

Mechanical way to deal with the caterpillars of the nibbling scoop

Since the pest feeds at night, you will have to collect caterpillars at the same time. No matter how uncomfortable, and maybe even funny, but you need to go out at night with a lighting fixture and collect them. To kill the caterpillars, you need to pour half a bucket of water, add soap, and send all the collected individuals there. This work will have to be done throughout the summer season, a couple of times a week.

Biological protection of the garden from scoops

Scoop caterpillars feed on various birds, frogs, fireflies and moles, but the latter are undesirable in the garden. To attract birds on the site you need to install several feeders, and try in every possible way not to scare away the birds.

Entomophages help in regulating the number of all gnawing insects. At night, ground beetles eat caterpillars with appetite, and Trichogramma and other riders damage eggs.

Infusion of bird cherry

Bird cherry is often advised to be placed between rows of branches, but in a large garden this is very inconvenient, as too many branches will be needed. To prepare the infusion, you will need branches, a hammer, a large container and water. The branches must be thoroughly softened with a hammer, sent to a container and poured with boiling water, it is best to insist for three days.

Tobacco dust, yarrow and wormwood scoops are also not to their liking. The number of ingredients can be selected independently, the most important thing in the infusion is a pungent smell. This infusion should be watered plants, poured directly onto the stem, at a height of up to 10 cm above the ground. Periodically, you need to repeat the procedure, as vegetable essential oils disappear quickly.

barriers

To keep out the caterpillars, which are mainly engaged in cutting through the stems of plants, you can put barriers around the stems. The cardboard boxes are impregnated with a solution of tar soap and fastened with a paper clip around the plant with a rim. However, this is not very convenient, since you will have to put a "fence" almost around each stalk.

Biologicals

For cutworm treatment, a mixture of BTB and Lepidocide is also used as soon as signs of damage to the sprouts appear. The main thing is to do the processing on time, as older larvae are more resistant.

Predatory nematodes are very effective - Nemabakt or Zashchita soil. It is a composite of a predatory nematode and a symbiotic bacterium. They work amazingly: the roundworm penetrates the larva with food or, excuse me, through the anus, and the bacteria decompose the insides of the pest from the inside. It turns out a kind of broth from the insides, which is then eaten away by nematodes. After an empty shell remains, they leave it. Bacteria and beneficial nematodes take root well and live in open ground.

Site care and agricultural practices

It was once believed that the number of pests could be reduced by deep digging to make it difficult for the caterpillars to winter. But, firstly, no one digs to such a depth. And secondly, there is more harm from digging. Therefore, in the practice of natural farming, other agricultural practices are used, namely:

If there is too much damage this year, this bed is covered with black agrofibre for the winter and until the end of June to make it difficult for the larvae to get out. If you have to resort to such a measure, fill the garden well with organic matter - for such a long period of time, the organic material will overheat well, and in the middle of summer it will be possible to plant beans, daikon, kale or any greens on it.
The bed can also be sown with perennial siderates of the legume family (comfrey, alfalfa) and not used for a year. For the second winter, also layer it with organic matter and cover it with agrofiber so that the roots, tops and top layer are processed by earthworms.
Annual flowers and / or green manure can be planted along the perimeter of the site, in which female pests will lay eggs. Annuals bloom until autumn, and their natural enemies-entomophages breed here.

It will take a lot of time to fight the winter scoop; rather, it all depends on the desire to get rid of this pest. Only by constantly monitoring the site, it will be possible to first reduce the number of individuals, then protect yourself from the pest more reliably. As for chemistry, it is hardly possible to eat onions after being treated with pesticides. It is better to choose a biologically safe drug or folk remedies to combat the winter scoop.

Scoops are small cute butterflies of a faded color, reminiscent of a domestic moth, there are various species in nature. And they hurt no less. True, they do not eat wool and homemade products, but plants in the garden. Adults do not damage crops, but breed caterpillars - the main danger to crops.

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With a butterfly scoop in the garden

The scoop and the fight against it has a number of features. How to deal with the scoop in the garden, read below.

Prediction using pheromone traps. Traps show the exact time of the beginning of the summer of butterflies and the appearance of caterpillars. Initially, years passed during the flowering period of dandelions. But now all the deadlines are being shifted and stretched in time. Therefore, forecasting is very important for timely action.
In order not to poison the plants with chemicals, you should first try to remove the scoop with folk remedies.
Attracting natural enemies of the scoop - trichograms and brakon.
Hang bait traps around the garden.
With insufficient effectiveness, biological preparations against scoops are used.
If they did not help to completely get rid of butterflies, connect the "heavy artillery". Fall Armyworm control measures should include chemical insecticides.
Finishing the garden season, it is worth digging deep all over the earth, as the scoops hibernate in the ground. After digging, most of the pests die.

Now you know how to get rid of scoops in the garden. About scoop caterpillars how to fight further. With caterpillars

At the beginning of the season, dig the soil as deep as possible to reduce the number of overwintered pests.
When planting, use the alternation of different crops of plants.
Be sure to eliminate weeds that serve as the initial food base for the larvae.
When the first single specimens appear, they begin to collect them manually.
If the number of caterpillars begins to increase, they select a means to destroy them.
If ineffective, biological products are replaced with chemical insecticides.
After harvesting, deep digging of the site is again used.

Scoop gnawing methods of dealing with it below.

With a nibbling owl

the main measure to reduce the number is digging the soil to a depth of at least 25 cm. It is carried out twice a season - before planting and after harvesting. This procedure will get rid of most of the existing pests in the caterpillar and pupa stages;
after planting, the soil is regularly loosened between rows and beds with a thorough inspection. All found caterpillars are immediately removed and destroyed;
weeds should be eliminated not only in the garden, but also around the entire site;
to lure a butterfly of a nibbling scoop into traps from a drink that ferments - kvass, molasses, beer, compote;
to destroy the larvae that live in the ground, it is necessary to apply soil insecticides.

Some experienced gardeners use a tank mixture of the drug (1/2 of the required dose) with urea (100 g per bucket of water).

Cotton shovel control measures are slightly different, more on that below.

With a cotton scoop

The cotton bollworm is a quarantine pest against which special measures are applied. Scoop how to deal with it further. Quarantine procedures include:

unrelenting control over the acquired seedlings, seedlings and bushes. Particular attention should be paid to cotton, chrysanthemums, tomatoes, corn, roses and eggplants. But at the same time, remember that the cotton scoop is an almost omnivorous pest;
when a pest is detected, the entire batch of acquired sprouts is subjected to fumigation, as well as the container;
widespread and active use of pheromone traps.

Owl how to deal with it? The next fight is:

In compliance with all the rules of agricultural technology in closed greenhouses and in open areas.
Constant monitoring and detection of pests of all stages of development.
Thorough and timely cleaning of weeds with their subsequent burning.
Preventive treatment of suspicious plants with chemical insecticides.

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on potatoes

The fight against the potato scoop is in many ways similar to the measures in the garden. How to deal with the potato scoop next.

Features include:

first of all, when harvesting weeds, pay attention to cereal species;
to destroy the larvae, insecticides are used both for soil cultivation and for spraying plants;
do not plant potatoes next to tomatoes - the potato scoop can move from one favorite crop to another.

Cabbage scoop measures to combat it, read below.

on cabbage

in the fight against weeds, the first to destroy the quinoa, white gauze, nettle. And also watch for their reappearance;
when processing, use mainly biological or chemical preparations.

The drug from scoops on tomatoes can be purchased at a specialized store. Scoop on pepper how to fight next.

On peppers

The algorithm of actions is the same as in the garden in general and on potatoes in particular.

Means of struggle

Biologicals

They are divided into 2 groups - bacterial and avermectins. Bacterial agents contain toxins of microorganisms with a neurotoxin effect on pests.

Avermectins are waste products of the pathogenic fungus streptomycetes. They also kill ticks and nematodes.

Dendrobacillin. A bacterial agent effective against cutworms and safe for humans. Consumption rate - 25-30 g per bucket of water. You can do up to 2 treatments per season.
Bitoxibacillin. The product of bacterial activity, which inhibits the production of digestive enzymes, disrupts the functioning of the intestines. In addition, it has a negative impact on all subsequent generations of scoops. The consumption rate is quite economical - about 20 ml per hundred square meters, pre-dilute in a bucket of water.
Lepidocide. A bacterial agent that acts against any leaf-eating caterpillars, including the scoop. The consumption rate is 25-35 g per bucket. Enough to process 1-2 acres.
Entobacterin. Microbiological remedy for leaf-eating caterpillars. The consumption rate is 3.5 kg per hectare.
Fitoverm. Bacterial preparation against many pests, including all types of scoops. Consumption depends on the type of crop being processed and ranges from 1 to 4 ml per bucket of water.
Agravertin. An agent derived from fungi. It has a long shelf life, is safe for people and the environment, works against most pests. Consumption - 3 ml per liter of water.
Aktofit. An innovative remedy from a number of avermectins. Consumption 4 ml per 1 liter.
Natur Guard. Sophora plant insecticide with neurotoxin properties. Causes paralysis of limbs and death of pests. Consumption 10 ml diluted in 5 liters of water.

Chemicals

They are subdivided into neonicotinoids, organophosphorus compounds and pyrethroids. Modern tools of the latest generations often have a combined composition.

Proteus. A two-component preparation consisting of deltamethrin (a pyrethroid) and thiacloprid (a neonicotinoid). The composition also includes oil, which protects the main substances from rinsing and evaporation. Up to 5 liters of a working solution obtained from 7 ml of the product are consumed per 1 weave.
Zolon. Phosphorus organic agent with high toxicity. It has selective properties, does not harm beneficial insects. Consumption - 2 ml per 5 liters of working solution.
Karate - Zeon. pyrethroid insecticide. Destroys caterpillars and adults. 100 ml of the drug is consumed to treat a hectare of area.

Dursban, Fufanon, Danadim also belong to organophosphorus agents with identical action.

Decis is a pro. Works against all types of scoops, including gnawers. It is used to treat the plant itself and the soil around it. To make a treatment solution, mix 1 g of the product with a bucket of water. The volume is enough for 2.5 acres.
Fury. Analogue - Kinmiks. Preparations of the pyrethroid group. Contact-intestinal agent against a variety of pests. Consumption per bucket of water - 1.5 ml of the product.
Bazudin. Granular soil conditioner. Use in wet ground increases its effectiveness. About 20 kg of granules are required to process a hectare of plantings.
Stefesin. Synthetic pyrethroid with enteric-contact route of penetration. Consumption of 1.5 ml of the product per bucket of water for treatment of 100 sq.m. landings.

Folk ways of fighting

Decoction recipes

Sagebrush. Soak 1 kg of fresh plant parts (stems and leaves can be used) in 3 liters of water and boil for 15-20 minutes. This decoction is completely harmless to humans, so it can be used often.
Tops of tomato. Acts against the cabbage scoop and its larvae. About 3.5 - 4 kg of fresh raw materials are taken per 10 liters of water. Cook for 25-30 minutes, filter and dilute with water in a ratio of 1:3.
Red or black elderberry. Flowers and leaves (300-400 g) must be boiled in a bucket of water for half an hour. Add liquid soap to the working solution - 40-50 grams.
Peppercorn (water pepper) is a very effective tool for the destruction of caterpillars. Apply fresh plants cut in June or July. A bucket of water requires 1 kg of raw materials. After 30 minutes of boiling, the broth must be cooled and filtered.
Hot red pepper. You can use both dry (500 g) and fresh (1 kg) raw materials. It must be boiled in 10 liters of water for about an hour. The broth must be infused for at least 24 hours. Before processing, it is diluted in cold water at a ratio of 1 part of the broth to 7-8 parts of water.
Sarepta mustard. Dry powder (50 g) must be boiled in a liter of water, left to cool for a while. Close tightly and insist at least a day. Dilute this volume with cold water in an amount of 20 liters. The decoction is used for spraying affected plants and processing planting material.

Infusion Recipes

Great burdock (burdock). Finely chop the leaves and stems and put in a bucket, filling it to the middle, add water to the brim. Cover and leave for 2-3 days. To improve adhesion, you can add liquid soap - 40-50 grams.
Large-flowered delphinium. Chop inflorescences (100 g) and infuse for 2 days in a liter of water under a closed lid.
Onions or green onions. A quarter of an average bulb is required per liter of water. It is better to grind it, leave it to infuse overnight (10-12 hours), filter it and use it to treat plants. If you feel sorry for the onion, you can use the husk (7-8 g per liter).
Garlic. Infuse a couple of cloves in a liter of warm water for 3-4 days. For spraying, dilute the infusion with 5 parts of water.
Black bleach. This plant becomes most effective during the flowering period. At this time, cut off the ground part, grind and pour water - 10 liters per 1 kg of raw materials. Insist 11-13 hours.

How to process tomatoes from scoops, read on. Other recipes

Wood ash, lime and tobacco powder. The components are mixed in equal amounts and the affected plants are pollinated. Used against scoop caterpillars.
Liquid soap and wood ash. Pour 2 cups of ash and 1-2 dessert spoons of any soap into a bucket of cold water. Used for spraying plants.
Potassium permanganate. Treatment of plants with a solution of manganese has a triple benefit - it works as a means of fighting the scoop, as a fertilizer and a disinfectant that kills bacteria and viruses. To spray bushes and young seedlings, make a glass of a strong dark solution of potassium permanganate and pour it into a bucket of water, stir very well.
Potassium chloride and superphosphate. Also helps with aphids. In a bucket of water, dilute 5 g of potassium and 10 g of superphosphate. The mixture is insisted for about a day, used several times with an interval of 8-9 days up to 3 times per season.

Double effect - destruction of scoop caterpillars and potash-phosphorus fertilizer.

Kerosene. 700-850 ml of kerosene and 350-450 g of soap (better than household soap, but any other is also possible). Dissolve the soap in a liter of hot water, carefully pour kerosene into it in a small stream and add another 9 liters of water. Mix all this and use immediately for processing plants.

To scare away butterflies, you can lay out or hang egg shells between plant beds and rows.

Baits for catching adult scoops are made from sweet drinks that can ferment. These include any syrups, molasses, kvass, juice, beer, liquid jam. Place the bait in small containers such as yogurt jars. Do not forget to remove the scoop that comes across.

Birds are very fond of cutworm larvae, so attracting them will significantly reduce pest populations. Flycatchers, titmouse and sparrows are especially helpful. For them, you can make feeders and hollows. Tits will be attracted to pieces of unsalted lard.

If you plant cilantro and basil next to possible victims, scoops will not approach the plantings, they will fly around them, as they cannot tolerate the smell of these herbs.

Scoops are quite amenable to destruction or scaring away from plants that are attractive to them. The most important thing in the fight against them is not to be lazy and not fold your hands.

Even if some remedy turned out to be ineffective, you can find another. A huge range of various modern preparations of biological, chemical or folk origin allows you to choose the most effective.

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Fighting the scoop: chemicals and folk methods

Among Lepidoptera, the scoop family is the most numerous and has more than 100 species. The most common species are: garden scoop, cabbage, potato, exclamation and common core. Butterflies differ in size and color, are considered harmless to the plants themselves, as they feed only on nectar. Therefore, it is necessary to fight with scoop caterpillars, which eat various parts of plants.

Fighting cabbage scoop

The cabbage scoop is a polyphagous pest, but among vegetable crops it prefers cabbage, peas, lettuce, beets and onions. The brown front wings of the butterfly are decorated with a lighter spot, and darkening along the edges is clearly visible on the gray hind wings. Young caterpillars are light green, then turn brown-brown, oblique dark lines appear on the back.

The caterpillars are active at the end of July and August. Pests eat cabbage leaves, making oblong passages in them, climb inside heads of cabbage, gnaw leaves and spoil the presentation of vegetables.

How to deal with the cabbage scoop:

Early sowing of vegetables in the garden is recommended.
Mechanical method of struggle: manual collection of caterpillars and eggs.
The use of chemicals.
The use of infusions and decoctions to combat caterpillars.

Of the chemical insecticides to combat the scoop, you can advise KinMix, Decis, IntaVir, Zeta, Fas. All drugs are diluted with water in accordance with the instructions. In addition, it is recommended to carry out foliar feeding with superphosphate and potassium chloride.

Biological preparations such as Fitoverm, Bitoxibacillin, Lepidocid are recommended for multiple spraying. At least 1 week must elapse between the last treatment and harvest.

In addition to chemical preparations, it is effective to treat vegetable crops with an infusion of bitter wormwood, bitter pepper, burdock, tomato and potato tops.

Preparations and folk methods against potato scoops

The potato scoop, more precisely, its caterpillars, brings great harm to the plant. During the growing season of plants, caterpillars make moves in potato tops, after which it quickly withers and falls. When damaging a potato tuber, the caterpillars make a small hole, feed on the juice and pulp of the tuber, and then crawl out, making an even greater move and leaving behind waste products. Excrement of caterpillars leads to rotting of tubers.

The potato scoop does more damage to plants and tubers if the potatoes are planted in low-lying places where the soil is always moist. Great damage to the crop is brought by wet years, when there are prolonged rains.

Fighting the potato scoop is quite difficult, as the butterfly is nocturnal. Spraying plants for prevention with chemicals is not entirely justified, because all the work will have to be done late in the evening, waiting for the butterflies to fly out of their shelters. It turns out that you won’t get rid of pests either, and a large dose of chemicals introduced will be absorbed into potato tubers and will be harmful to health. We need to fight the caterpillars.

To reduce the pest population, you should:

Apply mineral fertilizers for planting potatoes.
Destroy caterpillars by carrying out frequent loosening of the soil in the aisle.
Carry out timely weeding, destroy weeds, wheatgrass, cereals, timothy.
Plant potatoes earlier.

In addition, during the planting of potato tubers, Bazudin in granules should be introduced into the aisle. On a plot of 1 ha, you will need 15 kg of bazudine. The application of the drug is recommended to be carried out in humid weather, so you can achieve a greater effect.

There are also safe methods of fighting the scoop: attracting butterflies to fermenting molasses.

Pests like such a treat and numerous individuals flock to its smell. To do this, dilute the molasses with water in a ratio of 1: 3, add yeast and pour the prepared drug into bottles, jars or other containers that should be placed near the plantings. From time to time, add water and add yeast.

During fermentation, a specific smell is released, on which scoops flock and drown in this liquid. You can replace molasses with fermented jam, beer wort or beer. When using sugar syrup to catch scoops, the efficiency of the process will be markedly reduced. Those scoops that have tasted fermenting molasses become barren.

Garden scoop - methods of struggle

The most dangerous insect, harms many plants, but prefers tomatoes, radishes, swedes and cabbages. Bicolor butterfly wings are decorated with gray and yellow spots. Caterpillars are brown or green.

Why is a garden owl dangerous? The fact is that the female lays eggs in almost all cultures. She climbs under the leaf and lays eggs on the inside of the leaf plate. The emerging caterpillars feed on young leaves and fruits.

Methods of dealing with garden shovel:

Collecting pests by hand.
Installation of baits around the perimeter of the site.
Clearing the site from weeds: swans, nettles.
The use of chemicals and folk methods to combat the scoop.

In spring, insecticides are used to treat plantings: Decis, Proteus, Karate, Fury. In the summer, it is required to carry out treatment with preparations containing phosphorus, ash, fufanol. During the dilution of chemicals, one should start from the form of preparations: they are produced in powder form, in the form of granules, there are concentrated emulsions. The dosage should not be exceeded.

The preparations are absorbed into the vegetables, so the treatment is carried out no later than a month before harvesting.

During the growing season, it is allowed to carry out a double treatment. Fitoverm, Aktofit and Agrovertin are biologically harmless drugs that are also used to combat the cutworm.

Piggy bank of folk wisdom: recipes for decoctions and infusions

Many gardeners do not use chemicals to control certain pests. There are a number of folk recipes for infusions and decoctions that help fight scoops in a way that is completely harmless to humans.

Decoction of wormwood. Pour 3 liters of water into a container, add 1 kg of chopped wormwood and boil for 15 minutes. The broth must be given time to brew, then strain and process vegetables 2 times a week. Between the first and subsequent spraying should be 1 week.
Infusion of onion skins. Scoop butterflies do not tolerate the smell of onions, so to scare them away, you can prepare an infusion of onion husks. To implement the method in practice, you need to take a liter jar filled to the top with onion peel, pour 2 liters of boiled water into it and let it brew for 2 days. Strain the resulting infusion, pour into a container and add water to the contents until 4 liters of the product are obtained. For better adhesion of the infusion to cabbage leaves, laundry soap should be added during cooking, at the rate of 25 g per 4 liters of water.
Burdock infusion. Grind the leaves of the plant, fill them with a 10-liter bucket to half, pour water to the top and leave for 3 days. Before spraying, the infusion should be filtered. To ensure long-term protection for plants and for better “sticking” of the infusion to the foliage, it is recommended to add laundry soap to the product, at the rate of 40 g per 10 liters of water. In a similar way, you can prepare effective infusions from potato tops, tomato leaves, yarrow, pharmacy chamomile, dope, aconite, milkweed.

In the daytime, it is almost impossible to fight the scoop. Due to the fact that she leads an active image at night, during the day she sleeps quietly and peacefully in the trees or in the grass, merging with the vegetation with the color of her body. The gardener has no choice but to fight caterpillars and larvae. Timely processing of vegetable crops from garden, cabbage, potato scoops will help preserve the harvest.

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Scoop - methods of struggle

All cutworms, their butterflies and larvae, are active only at night. According to the method of nutrition, they are divided into:

leaf-eating (cabbage, alfalfa, garden) live on the ground;
gnawing (winter, swamp, gnawing, wild) lead an underground lifestyle.

Methods of dealing with scoops

Gardeners in the fight against armyworm use different methods for each state of the armyworm: butterflies, caterpillars and pupae.

How to get rid of a butterfly owl?

hang pheromone traps or containers with fermenting kvass or molasses at a height of 1 meter (then be sure to add a little water and fermenting liquid);
destroy weeds, especially flowering ones, which leads to the depletion of scoop butterflies due to the lack of nectar for food.

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How to get rid of armyworm caterpillars: common methods and precautions

Back in 1969, the moth was brought to the American continent for industrial purposes to breed silkworms. But attempts to develop this area failed, and the delivered insect, as a result, became the main pest in most of the United States and Canada. Every year there are more and more new methods of dealing with this problem. These pests include the scoop, which causes significant harm to gardeners every year.

Scoops - who are they, and what is their harm?

This family contains about 100 species. They are butterflies of various colors - gray, brown, often dark. Scoop butterflies do absolutely no harm to the plant, since they feed exclusively on their nectar. But their offspring - caterpillars - eat everything that comes in their way.

Depending on the feeding method, these insects were divided into two groups:

Gnawing scoop feeding on underground fruits of plants. Its species includes: potato, exclamation and winter scoop.
The leaf-eating scoop eats fruits and plants that are on the surface of the earth, and leads a terrestrial lifestyle. This species includes: alfalfa, cabbage and garden scoop.

Both species are active only at night. Both butterflies and larvae hide during the day and are in a stationary phase until dark. Let's take a closer look at each pest separately.

potato scoop

This insect breeds on ordinary non-chernozem soil. This species leads to enormous crop losses of potatoes, onions, rhubarb, sorrel and other plants. I would especially like to note the reproduction of scoops on tomatoes. Its appearance on a plantation with tomatoes is very common, leading to almost 100% yield loss. The butterfly of this species is characterized by large grayish-yellow wings with a red or brown tint. Its caterpillar is bright yellow or red in color with a longitudinal stripe on the back reaches a size of half a centimeter.

Laid eggs of the potato scoop successfully endure wintering, and already in May begin their revival.

The initial food for young caterpillars are leaves and stems of cereals. Already adult insects move to larger plants, damaging the stems and root system on their way. The period of transformation of caterpillars into pupae is carried out at the beginning of summer right in the soil near the affected plants. The adult butterflies that have bred fly out and lay new eggs on wild plants, such as timothy grass and wheatgrass, until mid-autumn. Eggs can also be laid on potato and rhubarb leaves. This species reproduces only one generation.

How to destroy

Methods for combating this pest are the destruction of all plant residues after harvest, as well as the disposal of all weeds belonging to cereal varieties. Such measures are often used to destroy many other pests.

exclamation owl

The exclamatory scoop reproduces very successfully and is distributed almost everywhere. This species affects the root crop of the crop. The insect got its name due to the presence of color in the form of an exclamation mark on the surface of the wings. The caterpillar has a gray-brown color with a yellowish tint and reaches a size of half a centimeter. Mature caterpillars tolerate cold well and hibernate in the soil at a depth of about 30 cm, where the pupation process takes place in the spring.

Eggs are laid in small groups on the leaves of weeds, sometimes just on the ground. The viability of the caterpillars comes in a week.

At first they lead an open lifestyle, and then hide, but after dark they crawl out for reinforcements. Young insects gnaw out juicy green leaves of plants to the very veins, then bite into root crops, roots, eat embryos and seed sprouts right in the soil. During the summer period, only one generation of this pest has time to breed.

The methods of dealing with the exclamation scoop are as follows:

Careful destruction of all weeds that serve as food for young caterpillars;
Treatment of cultures with a solution of lepidocide. It is necessary to dilute 2-3 grams of the substance in 1 liter of water.

cabbage scoop

Another harmful insect, common almost everywhere, is the cabbage scoop. Her favorite crops are cabbage, peas, beets, lettuce and onions. This is a butterfly with brown wings with a kidney-shaped gray spot on the surface. Initially, its caterpillar has a juicy green color, then it changes to a brownish-brown hue with dashes on the back.

The pupae of the cabbage scoop, like other species, hibernate in the soil, burrow to a depth of no more than 4 cm. At the beginning of summer, butterflies fly out and lay their eggs on the inside of the leaves of plants growing in areas with high moisture. The mass appearance of caterpillars falls on July-August. Wet and cold environments are favorable conditions for their reproduction. They penetrate into the head of cabbage and eat through the root crop from the inside. Eaten leaves to holes are a sign of the appearance of this pest. The cabbage scoop is especially dangerous because it can breed in several generations over the entire summer period.

How to destroy?

But fortunately, there are methods to combat this insect:

In order to avoid damage to the crop by a scoop, early planting of seedlings is recommended.
As an option - manually collecting caterpillars and eggs of the pest.
Implementation of foliar feeding of plants with potassium chloride and superphosphate.
A very effective method of spraying cabbage with insecticidal infusions based on burdock, wormwood, potato tops.
Not a single application of lepidocide, phytoverm 5 days before the harvest.
Spraying is also effective, according to the instructions of Zeta, Inta-vir, Fas.

All these measures are really very good. But, nevertheless, experts are developing new ways to deal with this harmful insect, since every year the scoop adapts to existing drugs.

pith scoop

One of the most popular pests that affect both root crops and plants that produce fruits on the surface is the common heartworm. Potatoes, tomatoes, rhubarb and about three dozen more plants that are affected by this type of pest. The butterfly has a bright and two-tone color of the wings of rusty yellow and brown-violet hues. Its caterpillar is large in size, reaching up to 0.5 cm, and has a yellow, sometimes off-white color.

Eggs successfully endure winter at the bases of plants, as well as at elderberry bushes. Especially dangerous are young caterpillars in the active phase. They penetrate the stems and gnaw them from the inside. Such plants no longer have a chance to recover, they break down and simply dry out. At the beginning of summer, mature caterpillars descend along the passages made in the stems and gnaw holes for the butterflies to fly out, after which they successfully pupate. One plant can be affected simultaneously by several caterpillars.

The methods of dealing with this scoop are the same as for the destruction of the potato scoop.

garden scoop

The most dangerous for almost all cultivated crops is the garden scoop. It is distributed almost throughout the territory of the countries of the former Soviet Union. The list of plants affected by it includes about 40 crops. But most of all she prefers turnips, tomatoes, cabbage and radishes. The butterfly has bicolor wings of brown and red hues with two spots of yellow and gray on the surface. Caterpillars are both green and brown.

The garden scoop can give two generations in the southern regions and one in the northern ones. Corn, millet, sugar beets are the first crops that begin to infect young caterpillars. Then they move to cereal and melon plants. Successfully enduring wintering at a depth of up to 25 cm, the caterpillars rise to the surface and, with the onset of heat, pupate. In mid-June, butterflies appear, the life span of which lasts until August. The laying of eggs by females is carried out on the inside of the leaves on absolutely all nearby plants. The emerging caterpillars gnaw through the leaves of plants, and also infect unripe tomato fruits.

How to destroy?

Use different methods to combat this pest:

Catching butterflies for bait.
Collecting caterpillars during the harvest.

Destruction of all weeds, especially deaf nettle, quinoa, white mari, on which the scoop especially loves to lay its eggs.

Spraying with compounds used to destroy cabbage scoops.

All these measures to combat the armyworm are very effective, the main thing is that they must be carried out in a timely manner and according to the instructions. Then the plants will be healthy and give you a wonderful harvest.

Related articlesAt the beginning of summer, when vegetable crops have already been planted, loosen the aisles more often. When damaged plants appear, rake the topsoil - for sure you will find a gray thick caterpillar. Therefore, careful loosening of the row spacing can be considered one of the methods of dealing with caterpillars of the winter scoop.

Scoops - who are they, and what is their harm?

Also, I read that you can pour sawdust around the perimeter of the beds, and deepen them a little. But I didn’t do it myself, so I can’t advise.

How often gardeners are in for an unpleasant surprise! They had just planted seedlings of tomatoes, cabbages, the seedlings had already begun, started to grow, cucumbers began to grow, and suddenly, here and there, the plants wither and fall, as if cut down. What is the reason?

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Scoop is a pest of tomatoes and not only tomatoes. How often do pests attack crops? It seems that you take care of the plants, but no, anyway, some bug will find a loophole to feed on your crop. The scoop caterpillar is one of the most common pests, which is also quite difficult to get rid of. What is most striking is that the owl is not particularly picky about its food and eats almost everything - tomatoes, eggplant, corn, peppers, beans and many other plants. But she still gravitates with special love to tomatoes, which suffer from the expression of her love more than all other cultures.

potato scoop

Collecting caterpillars during harvest.

All these measures are really very good. But, nevertheless, experts are developing new ways to deal with this harmful insect, since every year the scoop adapts to existing drugs.

Another harmful insect, common almost everywhere, is the cabbage scoop. Her favorite crops are cabbage, peas, beets, lettuce and onions. This is a butterfly with brown wings with a kidney-shaped gray spot on the surface. Initially, her caterpillar has a juicy green color, then it changes to a brownish-brown hue with dashes on the back.

How to destroy

The laid eggs of the potato scoop successfully endure wintering, and already in May they begin their revival.

exclamation owl

Try to keep track of not only your beds. Mow roadsides and the area around your property regularly. Flowering weeds are a source of nutrition and oviposition of butterflies of the winter scoop.

My helpers in the fight against the bear are cats. As soon as we started living with two cats and a cat, I noticed that all my plants remain in place. My cats generally catch everything that moves in the summer: flies, butterflies, grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars.

The first and most famous garden pest - the bear - is a rather large insect that leads mainly an underground lifestyle.

This year, for the first time in my life, I saw this caterpillar scoop, ate a lot of tomatoes in the greenhouse, and most importantly, I could not understand who was eating, they ate both green and red, thanks now I will know.
A modern drug for combating scoops, which has excellent efficiency, is Proteus (the consumption rate of the drug for tomatoes is 7 ml per 3-5 liters of water per 1 weave). First of all, this drug has two active ingredients - a contact-intestinal and systemic drug. And secondly, it adheres very well to the leaves and stems of plants, which even have a strong wax coating. Tank mixtures of organophosphate and pyrethroid preparations are also effective: for example, Zolon - 1 l / ha + Karate - 0.2-0.25 l / ha, Decis pro - 0.04 l / ha + Zolon - 1 l / ha. The use of such tank mixtures allows you to increase the period of their protective action up to 20 days.

cabbage scoop

With such a "guest" in your garden, you must immediately start fighting. But let's take a closer look at the pest itself before moving on to the methods of fighting the scoop on tomatoes.

Destruction of all weeds, especially deaf nettle, quinoa, white mari, on which the scoop especially likes to lay its eggs.

How to destroy?

The pupae of the cabbage scoop, like other species, hibernate in the soil, burrow to a depth of no more than 4 cm. At the beginning of summer, butterflies fly out and lay their eggs on the inside of the leaves of plants growing in areas with high moisture. The mass appearance of caterpillars falls on July-August. Wet and cold environments are favorable conditions for their reproduction. They penetrate into the head of cabbage and eat through the root crop from the inside. Eaten leaves to holes are a sign of the appearance of this pest. The cabbage scoop is especially dangerous because it can breed in several generations over the entire summer period.
The initial food for young caterpillars are the leaves and stems of cereals. Already adult insects move to larger plants, damaging the stems and root system on their way. The period of transformation of caterpillars into pupae is carried out at the beginning of summer right in the soil near the affected plants. The adult butterflies that have bred fly out and lay new eggs on wild plants, such as timothy grass and wheatgrass, until mid-autumn. Eggs can also be laid on potato and rhubarb leaves. This species reproduces only one generation.
Every year there are more and more new methods of dealing with this problem. These pests include the scoop, which causes significant harm to gardeners every year.
Traps with a fermenting drink are effective against the winter scoop butterfly: compote, beer, kvass.
And if the bear moves to the trees, then to health: let it continue to plow the expanses of its native area, improving soil aeration.
During the time I began to engage in gardening, I almost thoroughly studied the habits of the common bear. At first I didn’t want to believe that she was on my site, then there was a phase of despair and wild horror, from the fact that I met her nose to nose and finally made sure that she was a bear! Now - I just know that it exists, and let it live for itself, you can’t argue with nature. The disappearance of one species entails other, sometimes unpredictable consequences.

Ludmila Vzyatysheva

pith scoop

Proponents of organic farming can treat their tomatoes with Aktofit (at the same time, this will reduce the number of leafhoppers, a carrier of mycoplasmal diseases), but due to low toxicity, it does not always have the desired effect on this pest. Proper agrotechnical measures are of great importance for prevention. Do not forget about crop rotation, i.e. do not plant tomatoes and other nightshades in the same place earlier than after 3-4 years.

In order to defeat the enemy, you need to carefully study it, find out its weaknesses and strengths, so let's take a closer look at what kind of caterpillars are those who love to feast on your harvest.

Spraying with compounds used to destroy cabbage scoops.

garden scoop

But fortunately, there are methods of dealing with this insect:
Methods for combating this pest are the destruction of all plant residues after harvest, as well as the disposal of all weeds belonging to cereal varieties. Such measures are often used to destroy many other pests.

How to destroy?

Insecticides can be used against winter scoop caterpillars: Decis, Bazudin, Arrivo, Sherpa. Moreover, these drugs can be effectively used in the following mixture - half the consumption rate of insecticides according to the instructions and 100-120 g of urea per 10 liters of water.
If the bear is very annoying to you, then in the fall, when everything is removed from the garden, and frosts have already begun on the soil, dig several holes up to 50 cm deep, cover it with a film and put manure there. These are the traps into which the bears should crawl for the winter. In the morning, check the holes every day, at this time the bears are slow and easy to destroy. In my opinion, this is the most real way to deal with a bear.

Medvedka common is distributed throughout the European part of Russia. The natural habitats of the bear are the banks of rivers and streams. It prefers moist loose soils. In vegetable gardens, he prefers planting cabbage, compost heaps, manure, especially horse manure.

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How to deal with a tomato scoop?

Scoops overwinter in the pupae phase in the soil, but in early June, butterflies “hatch out” from the pupae, which literally three days later begin to lay eggs on the leaves and stems of tomatoes or any other cultivated plants. Caterpillars most often appear from eggs after three days, but this directly depends on the air temperature. This is followed by caterpillar development, which usually lasts two to three weeks. During this period, the caterpillars, so to speak, eat everything that catches their eye. They damage the leaves, stems of plants, but most of all, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers suffer, the fruits of which the caterpillars eat with great appetite. The fruits gnawed by the scoop rot, but even if this fact is not taken into account, the caterpillars cause so much damage to the fruits that it is simply not possible to eat these vegetables.

The methods of dealing with this scoop are the same as for the destruction of the potato scoop.

In order to avoid crop damage by a scoop, early planting of seedlings is recommended.
The exclamatory scoop breeds very successfully and is distributed almost everywhere. This species affects the root crop of the crop. The insect got its name due to the presence of color in the form of an exclamation mark on the surface of the wings. The caterpillar has a gray-brown color with a yellowish tint and reaches a size of half a centimeter. Mature caterpillars tolerate cold well and hibernate in the soil at a depth of about 30 cm, where the pupation process takes place in the spring.

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Scoop on tomatoes - how to fight?

Depending on the method of feeding, these insects were divided into two groups:

When digging up the soil or when making compost, many gardeners have encountered fat white or off-white worms. These are the larvae of the May beetle (Khrushcha).

Scoop - caterpillar pest

Winter scoop - night butterfly. I call it: big fat moth. The butterfly itself is not as dangerous as its caterpillar - thick, large, gray, but can also be light brown. It depends on the type of scoop, because there are a huge number of them - for almost every plant there is a corresponding type of scoop. On the ground, the caterpillar is hard to see. In color, it merges with the top layer of soil.

To determine its presence on the site can be determined not only by cut plants. At the beginning of summer, especially after watering in the morning, winding, blasted soil areas are clearly visible on the beds. These are the surface moves of the bear. It is difficult to predict where it will crawl tomorrow. Running after her with a bucket of some kind of nastiness is also not a pleasure. Some gardeners sit at night, guarding when the bear comes to the surface in order to destroy it. Some gardeners buried three-liter cans of water in the path of the bear, so that they would fall down there, but they could not get out. I remember how I laughed when I read somewhere that you can fight with a bear if you drive in aspen stakes all over the garden.

Svetlana Lokhina (Ulyanova)

How to deal with a scoop on tomatoes?

Causes great harm to tomatoes. If you don’t want to use pesticides, then you can deal with it as follows: - plant the area where the tomatoes grow around the perimeter with calendula - it scares off the scoop and the tomatoes grow without damage; - spray the tomatoes with garlic on the counter once every two weeks. Pour a bucket of garlic arrows with water, cover with a lid and leave for a week in the sun. Then 1 liter of infusion in a bucket of water (10 liters), you can add a matchbox of urea - this is both top dressing and protection from pests.

So, how to process tomatoes from scoops?

The fight against the scoop on tomatoes and other crops is hampered by the fact that one generation of caterpillars is soon replaced by another, and this happens all summer, as well as the beginning of autumn.

As an option - manually collecting caterpillars and pest eggs.

Eggs are laid in small groups on the leaves of weeds, sometimes just on the ground. The viability of the caterpillars comes in a week.

Gnawing scoop feeding on underground fruits of plants. Its species includes: potato, exclamation and winter scoop.

The larvae of the May beetle first feed on particles of humus, then they begin to eat up the roots of plants. In the European part of Russia, the May beetle prevails with a 4-year period of development. The most tangible damage to plants is caused by larvae of the second and third years of development during the growing season. Plants with badly damaged roots can die. The caterpillar of the winter scoop is the worst agricultural pest. She does not disdain anything, almost omnivorous. The caterpillar can damage cereals, potatoes, beets, onions, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage. In the daytime, caterpillars can hide from sunlight under the leaves of plants or in the upper soil layer, and crawl out to hunt at night.

I tried planting seedlings in cut plastic bottles. But she refused it. Tomatoes are still nothing, they have grown, but the cabbage grew very poorly in these cropped bottles. During weeding, a little touching the edges of the bottles, my cabbages flew out of the ground. They could not catch on the edge of the root in the ground. We don’t have such filth..Text hiddenexpand 0 Published

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You are now familiar with the enemy, so it remains only to learn how to deal with it. As it has already become clear from acquaintance, protecting tomatoes from scoops is a rather complicated matter, since getting rid of this pest is still very difficult due to the fact that there are a lot of caterpillars and they multiply quickly. In addition, it is extremely inconvenient that caterpillars crawl out to “hunt” at night, and during the day they hide in the ground near plants. This is due to the fact that scoops are generally nocturnal butterflies. In general, in the fight against these pests, it is necessary to connect "heavy artillery" - chemical treatments for pests. Pest controlTomato scoop, indeed, causes irreparable and severe damage to tomatoes. The garden scoop can give two generations in the southern regions and one in the northern ones. Corn, millet, sugar beets are the first crops that begin to infect young caterpillars. Then they move to cereal and melon plants. Implementation of foliar feeding of plants with potassium chloride and superphosphate. At first they lead an open lifestyle, and then hide, but after dark they crawl out for reinforcements. Young insects gnaw out juicy green leaves of plants to the very veins, then bite into root crops, roots, eat embryos and seed sprouts right in the soil. During the summer period, only one generation of this pest has time to breed. The leaf-eating scoop eats fruits and plants that are on the surface of the earth, and leads a terrestrial lifestyle. This species includes: alfalfa, cabbage and garden scoop. There is a biological way to deal with the larvae of the Maybug - introducing a culture of nematodes into the soil. You will get rid of the larvae of the May beetle, you will acquire nematodes: horseradish is not sweeter! In addition to the introduction of nematodes, there is a measure to prevent the spread of May beetle larvae: during autumn and spring digging of the soil, it is necessary to manually collect and destroy the May beetle larvae. The damage caused by the caterpillar of the winter armyworm is akin to the damage caused by the mole cricket. By the way, I saw a trimmed fallen onion. I thought the bear came out. I raked the ground around the gnawed onion and saw a gray caterpillar. This is the caterpillar of the winter scoop. She, just like the bear, cuts young plants at soil level or simply gnaws the petioles of leaves, gnaws whole hollows in potatoes, beets, carrots and other root crops. In order not to increase the number of bears in a single area, I advise you to get rid of boards, logs - buried or lying on the ground. Also make sure that the water containers are not leaking. Try not to bring manure from unknown places where there may be a bunch of bears. If you only have to purchase manure or humus, try not to put it on the ground, isolate it from the ground so that the bears do not crawl around the garden. Prepare a special container. In such a container, you can spill all the humus or manure with pesticides. Also isolate compost heaps from contact with the ground.

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Medvedka, scoop, Maybug - garden pests.

Medvedka, scoop, Maybug - "invisible" pests of the garden

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Fighting a bear in the garden

If, when examining your beds, you find scoop eggs or caterpillars among tomatoes, then spray the plant with one of these products - Citkor, Decis, Spark, etc. You can ask the store about the products suitable for processing tomatoes from scoops, where you can be advised which drug is better to choose. A week after the first spraying, it is necessary to carry out a secondary treatment.

If you would avoid using toxic chemicals, then you can follow similar methods:

Successfully enduring wintering at a depth of up to 25 cm, the caterpillars rise to the surface and, with the onset of heat, pupate. In mid-June, butterflies appear, the life span of which lasts until August. The laying of eggs by females is carried out on the inside of the leaves on absolutely all nearby plants. The caterpillars that have appeared gnaw through the leaves of plants, and also infect unripe tomato fruits.

A very effective method of spraying cabbage with insecticidal infusions based on burdock, wormwood, potato tops.

The methods of dealing with the exclamation scoop are as follows:

Both species are active only at night. Both butterflies and larvae hide during the day and are in a stationary phase until dark. Let's take a closer look at each pest separately.

Also, do not add fresh manure to the soil. May beetle larvae will probably start in it. To apply to the beds, use only rotted humus, and carefully examine and shake it before applying: it is better to prevent the larvae from getting into the beds than to look for how to deal with them later.

The caterpillar of the winter scoop is capable of destroying seeds and seedlings in the soil, which is why seedlings are very rarefied, bald spots appear in continuous plantings. In our gardens, caterpillars of the first generation of winter cutworms harm, damaging vegetable crops at the very beginning of summer. Caterpillars of the second generation "specialize" in winter crops. How to deal with the winter scoop?

What to do with the beds where the bear is operating? At the beginning of summer, in June, the bear is looking for a warm sunny place in order to build a nest and lay eggs. The nest protrudes somewhat from the ground and resembles an ordinary hummock. Unusually, nothing grows next to this bump within a radius of 20-30 cm. It is around its nest that the bear cuts down all the grass or other plants so that they do not obscure the nests. Medvedka often comes to her nest, checks if everything is in order. Destroying the tussock-nest, you can see a lot of gray-yellow eggs a little smaller than a pea. This is the laying of the bear. This is exactly how my meeting with the bear happened: I examined the laying of eggs, and she also came to visit them. From horror and numbness, my legs were paralyzed, and when she saw me, she quietly began to back away, closing herself with a claw. What a terrible thing she is! The only thing I want is to never see her again. So, the conclusion suggests itself: loosen the soil more often and do not neglect deep autumn and spring digging.

scoops - small whitish moths that resemble domestic moths and feed on garden crops. Moreover, it is not butterflies that damage plants, but their larvae - caterpillars. We will tell you how to deal with scoops on tomatoes, what remedy for scoops on tomatoes is considered the most effective, what folk remedies for fighting scoops are, and what chemicals will help get rid of this pest in tomato beds.

Scoops: description

Scoops are sometimes called night bats. The first scoops were described at the beginning of the 19th century, and now about 35,000 species of these insects are known, but not all of them are garden pests.

The wingspan of an owl usually reaches 45 mm, although there are much larger specimens in the family. The scoop is painted in a discreet grayish color. She spends the winter in the pupa phase in the upper layer of soil, and in the spring she flies out and lays her eggs on the leaves of garden plants on the 4-5th day. After about seven days, caterpillars emerge from the eggs, and after three weeks they become adults. It is during these three weeks that the caterpillars cause serious damage to tomato beds. They devour the leaves, stems and fruits of tomatoes, from which the bushes wither and die. But during the summer, scoops produce more than one generation of caterpillars.

Measures to combat the cutworm on tomatoes

Agrotechnical methods of combating the scoop

There are several ways to get rid of scoops. You can use folk remedies that are gentle and non-toxic to the environment in the fight against the pest, or you can use potent chemicals, but they can give an undesirable side effect. It should be remembered that it is easier to prevent a problem than to get rid of it later, therefore it is so important to carry out preventive measures and comply with agrotechnical requirements:

regularly destroy weed grass in the beds, especially quinoa, nettle and white gauze, since it is these weeds that serve as the initial food base for scoops, and from these grasses they subsequently move on to tomatoes;
plant plants such as calendula, basil or cilantro around the perimeter of tomato beds and between rows of tomatoes - usually scoops do not approach such plants;
after harvesting and removing all plant debris, it is imperative to dig the garden to a depth of at least 20 cm in order to extract the larvae wintering in the soil to the surface: they will die at the first frost. At the beginning of the season, you should also dig deep into the soil on the site;
remove pests mechanically, while they have not yet had time to spread throughout the site.

Folk remedies for combating scoops on tomatoes

From folk remedies, with more or less success, vegetable and organic decoctions and infusions are used. We offer you recipes of the most famous remedies.

Decoctions :

Boil 350 g of black or red elderberry leaves in a bucket of water for 30 minutes, then cool and add 40 g of grated soap to the decoction;
Soak 1 kg of crushed leaves and stems of wormwood in 3 liters of water and boil over low heat for 15-20 minutes. This decoction, completely harmless to humans and animals, can be used frequently;
Boil 1 kg of water pepper (pepper mountaineer) cut in June or July in a bucket of water for 30 minutes, cool and strain;
Boil 500 g of dry or 1 kg of fresh hot red pepper for an hour in a bucket of water, then leave for a day, then strain and add 1 part of this decoction to 7-8 parts of water to process tomatoes;
Boil 50 g of dry mustard powder in a liter of water, spread for at least a day, then dilute with 20 liters of water and apply to treat planting material and affected tomato bushes.

infusions :

filled up to half with crushed leaves and stems of burdock (large burdock), pour a bucket to the brim with water, cover and leave for a couple of days. Before use, strain the infusion and add 40-50 g of liquid soap to it;
Grind 100 g of large-flowered delphinium inflorescences, leave for 2 days in 1 liter of water under the lid and apply to the processing of tomatoes;
chop a quarter of an average onion, pour in a liter of water, insist for 12 hours, then strain and apply. Instead of fresh onions in the same amount of water, you can infuse 7-8 g of onion peel;
Crush 2 cloves of garlic, pour 1 liter of warm water and leave for 3-4 days. Before use, dilute the infusion with water in a ratio of 1:5;
cut off 1 kg of the ground part of the black henbane during flowering, chop, pour 10 liters of water and leave for 12 hours.

Other folk remedies :

equal parts of lime, wood ash and tobacco powder are mixed and dusted with this composition on bushes affected by caterpillars;
2 cups of wood ash and 1-2 dessert spoons of liquid or grated soap are added to a bucket of cold water;
a glass of a strong dark pink solution of potassium permanganate is poured into a bucket of water, thoroughly stirred and sprayed with tomato bushes: this remedy destroys not only the scoop, but also dangerous bacteria and viruses;
10 g of superphosphate and 5 g of potassium are diluted in a bucket of water, the solution is infused for about a day and the plants are treated by leaves. Apply this insecticidal and at the same time nutrient up to three times per season with an interval of 7-10 days;
400 g of grated laundry soap is dissolved in 1 liter of hot water, then carefully, in a stream, 800 ml of kerosene are added to the soap solution, after which this composition is mixed with 9 liters of water and immediately used for spraying.

You can also make baits for catching adult scoops from fermented liquids - syrups, molasses, compotes, kvass, beer, juice or liquid jam. They are poured into small jars and placed in the garden. Don't forget to destroy the trapped butterflies.

And if you place drinking bowls for tits and sparrows around the site, then soon not a single scoop larvae will remain on your beds.

Chemical preparations against scoops

Industrial insecticides against scoops are divided into 2 groups - bacterial and chemical. Bacterial preparations contain toxins of microorganisms, they are considered less dangerous for humans and animals.

Most Effective biological preparations :

Dendrobacillin- a drug that can be used 2 times per season;
Bitoxibacillin- a product of bacterial activity that disrupts the intestinal function of scoops and negatively affects their reproductive function;
Entobacterin- microbiological preparation from leaf-eating pests;
Lepidocide- preparation against leaf-eating pests;
Fitoverm- bacterial insecticide against many pests;
Agravertin- a preparation that is safe for people and the environment, obtained from fungi and has a long shelf life. It is effective against many pests, including cutworms;
Aktofit- a new strong drug derived from fungi (avermectin);
Natur Guard- an insecticide from sophora, which has a neurotoxin effect: it causes paralysis of the limbs in pests, from which they die.

From chemicals most often used:

Proteus- a two-component agent, which includes an oil that protects the insecticide from washing off and evaporation;
Zolon- a highly toxic organophosphorus agent with selective action: it affects only harmful insects;
Karate-Zeon- a pyrethroid drug that destroys both adults and caterpillars.
Decis Profi- an insecticide that destroys all scoops, including those that gnaw;
fury- pyrethroid contact-intestinal action;
Bazudin– granules for soil treatment of wet soil;
Stefesin- synthetic pyrethroid of enteric-contact action.

In addition to those described, the preparations Kinmiks, Fufanon, Dursban and Danadim do well with scoops. However, one should resort to chemical preparations only when the occupation of tomato beds by scoops has reached alarming proportions. With a small number of caterpillars, try to get by with herbal insecticidal infusions and decoctions. If they don't help much, try biological treatments that aren't as toxic as strong chemicals.

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