Despite its tiny size, the aphid is one of the most common and dangerous pests in the garden. How could I not love these little insects. In one year they have completely ruined my whole crop of cherries, so I began looking for the present effective methods of fighting.
Earlier, I removed the aphids simple soap and water, but it is not particularly helped. Insects appeared again, and spend the whole summer on the manual removal of aphids, I could not with leaves.
After going through several methods of struggle, I came across a rather original way. His point was not to allow the aphids to the leaves of trees, of which she is drinking juice.
That this method was the most effective, so I will only discuss it.
Aphids spread through the trees with the help of ordinary garden ants. It is they who are spreading these small insects throughout the site. Ants on the branches fall on the trunk of the tree, climbing on it as the climbers. Our task is to block their path, thereby allowing ingress of aphids on a branch. This is done very simply.
Make a trap aphids and ants
Nothing complicated here is not present, it takes me about 15 minutes to create a trap.
Step 1.
At a distance of 20-30 cm from the ground on a tree trunk in several layers of wrap food film or regular plastic bag. It can be mounted with tape or rope.
Step 2.
Departing from the top and bottom of the food film of 2-3 cm, the barrel tightly wound cloth. Best fit the old bed sheet or pillow case cut into strips.
Anchoring rag conventional string or fishing line. Do not use the wire, it can damage the bark of a tree.
Step 3.
Is usually applied to the cloth sticky solution for rodent control. It is sold in any gardening store for 130 rubles in iron tubes. We need the cheapest, since ants will be a fairly simple sticky mass, which does not dry out.
As a result, we must have here is an obstacle:
Ants are not able to climb through such barricades that will give them the opportunity to transfer the aphids on a tree branch. However, you need to make sure that at the time the trap is no longer a tree is infected with aphids. Otherwise they will be useless.
Here's a simple method to help me get rid of the ants and aphids on all summer.