Tiny spider mites, which can only be seen under a microscope, can cause colossal damage any cultivated plants.
Among their gastronomic preferences are eggplants, tomatoes and bell peppers. If they grow in the garden or in the greenhouse, they will be the first to suffer from the invasion of ticks - vegetarians. How to fight with spider mite, what methods to use?
Will consider methods and measures to combat spider mites in greenhouses and on sites. Having found traces of the destructive activity of pests, one should immediately start their extermination. Several methods have been developed that effectively and reliably eliminate tick populations.
Methods and control measures
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Chemical
It consists in the use of various chemicals.
Against ticks can be used acaricides and insectoacaricides.
How to get rid of spider mites chemicals? Chemical measures include:
- spraying plants working solutions of drugs;
- fumigation greenhouses and greenhouses by burning chemicals;
- soil treatment around the plants.
Events can be held both individually and in combinations with each other, combining them.
Biological
It implies the use of various means of biological origin. Plus this method in complete security for all creatures, excluding ticks. Measures of this method include:
- Using natural enemies ticks - phytophagous. These are predatory mites that feed on vegetarians. They effectively reduce the number of colonies without damaging the plants.
- Application biopreparationsthat harm only ticks. After preparing the solution, the plants are sprayed following the instructions.
Agrotechnical
It consists of various measures aimed at creating conditions unfavorable for the existence of a tick. To effectively use it, you need good to know habits and preferences pest. Measures include:
- soil treatment;
- destruction of plant waste;
- increased air humidity;
- planting plants that repel ticks.
This method does not require financial investments, are used. only physical effort plant breeding.
Spider mite on tomatoes (tomatoes) - photo:
People's
Includes use improvised means to kill the pest or its scaring.
Measures are divided into:
- using food;
- the use of affordable and cheap medicines, such as iodine and potassium permanganate;
- spraying infusions and decoctionsmade from various plants.
Fighting spider mite on eggplants, tomatoes and peppers
How to deal with pests? Tomato, Pepper and Eggplant Processing generally not different from each other. All possible nuances we have taken into account and described. If you have any suspicions about the invasion of ticks on your vegetables, you need to follow this step-by-step instruction:
- Carefully inspect the damaged bushes in search external lesions. Numerous small bright spots on the leaves, Availability fine spiderweb on the inside, "Marble drawing" surfaces. In addition, ticks can be detected using a strong magnifying glass.
- Spider mite on eggplant - how to fight? Remove all weed plants around eggplants and to burn them to reduce the number spider mites.
- Cut off all badly damaged leaves and shoots, not pitying them, since they still fall off themselves. Burn them immediately.
- Spider mite on pepper - how to fight? To cook soap solution from laundry soap with water. If possible, wash all affected plants using a sponge. This reduces the number of pests and removes their webs on the leaves, which interferes with the penetration of drugs from ticks. This item can be used only for processing pepper.
- Decide which means You will use to process plants from ticks.
- Spider mite on tomatoes - how to fight? Buy the drug and prepare a working solution the selected means, immediately process all bushes, following the instructions. For spraying tomatoes and eggplants concentration should be increased 1.5 times. Since they are not exposed to bathing.
- A few days later, inspect the plants again to assess their condition and the effectiveness of the drug. The emergence of new points and cobwebs on the leaves indicates drug failure.
In this case, it should be replaced by another, choosing a tool from another group. For example, if you used biological acaricide, you need to choose a drug chemical origin. In order to get rid of the entire population of ticks, treatment should be carried out repeatedly.
- If plants are affected in greenhouses, the plants are treated with bleach in a concentration of 2%. In addition, carry out the fumigation of the premises, burning briquettes sulfur.
- After getting rid of pests, you should regularly assess the condition of the plants, look for traces of their presence and actively carry out preventive actions to prevent their new invasion.
Spider mite on eggplants - photo:
If you have tried several different tools, and the result is negative, should call professionalsthat will accurately kill ticks and find the true cause of the problem.
Spider mite on peppers - photo:
How to process plants?
Chemicals
Subdivided into 2 groups:
- Acaricides specific. They act only on ticks - vegetarians and do not work against insects. These include Sunmite, Omite 30 and 57, Neoron, Apollo, Borneo, Envidor, Flumayt, Nissoran, Anticlesch, Floromite.
- Insectoacaricides. Toxic activity is manifested to ticks and insects. Possessing an extensive range of effects, most often universal. Among them, the most famous and effective Oberon, Actellic.
Biological preparations
They contain streptomycete fungi and their activity products that have neurotoxic qualities. These include Akarin, Vertimek, Agravertin, Fitoverm, Aktofit, Kraft, Kleschevit.
Folk remedies
Refer to gentle methods getting rid of ticks, completely harmless to any animals and people. The most popular infusions of garlic, onion, bitter pepper, tobacco, horsetail, dandelion and potato tops. Other drugs and detailed recipes can be found in our article "Folk remedies to combat spider mite."
Diseases developing in pest attack
Spider mite not only sucks the juice and weakens these plants, but also suffers numerous diseases. First of all it gray rotto which all vegetables are subject as well viral diseases.
Eggplant suffer from mosaic - cucumber, tobacco and speckled, stolbur, viral necrosis and necrotic spotting. On pepper, thanks to ticks, lucerne, tobacco and cucumber mosaics, mycoplasmosis (stolbur) can attack. On Tomatoes seedlessness (aspermia), several varieties of mosaic, strick, spotted wilt develops.
Mosaic on eggplants - photo:
Summary
Do not be lazy and neglect preventive measures and the fight against spider mites. Otherwise, you are likely will be left without harvest. You can select the appropriate drug using the article "Spider Tick Controls".
