flower pots?flower pots can be got flies. How to get rid of uninvited insects, without waiting for them to spread to all plants, and what measures to take to prevent re-infection - these issues should be resolved quickly and competently. And then the home flower garden will again delight strong healthy shoots. What kind of flies can be started in flower pots
With garden soil, a huge number of different pests can get into the flower pots. But most often insects of three species start and multiply in them:
- fruit flies - fruit or fruit flies, in appearance similar to small flies;
- sciarides - the so-called mushroom mosquitoes;
- whitefly - they look like very small butterflies with two white wings.
Drosophila in nature are ubiquitous, they feed on plant sap, decomposed plant residues. Fruit flies have a short life cycle and extraordinary fecundity.
Sciarides are relatively poorly understood and include up to 20,000 species. The most famous are mushroom, cucumber, potato, greenhouse. In this species, adults do not feed, and the larvae eat mushroom mycelium, the roots of higher plants, decaying plant tissues.
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Whitefly or aleurodid, live on the underside of the leaves and feed on plant sap. Some of their species are dangerous quarantine pests.
How flies get into
flower pots These blackflies can lead in a pot in different ways:
- can end up in purchased or garden soil that has been poorly disinfected;
- fly through an open window in the summer and lay eggs in the damp earth of a flowerpot;
- get together with vegetables or fruit and multiply, and then migrate to the flowers.
The excessive reproduction of blackflies in flower pots is facilitated by excessive soil moisture. In warm and humid conditions, the larvae hatch quickly from their eggs and begin to actively feed. Soon it becomes noticeable on the unhealthy type of houseplant - it languishes, the leaves wither and fall, despite the abundant watering.
At the initial stage, plant infection is difficult to determine. You should carefully examine it - the top layer of soil and the underside of the leaves.
If insects are seen on the leaflets, and small white larvae are in the ground, it is necessary to take urgent measures until the pests have settled everywhere.
Folk recipes for dealing with the fly
At first, you can try to get rid of the midges in pots using popular methods and start with the least traumatic for the plant.
First, let the ground dry at least two centimeters and slightly rustle its top layer. In such conditions, the larvae find it difficult to survive, as they need a moist environment. Then catch all the flying insects. Do it with glue traps.
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The simplest are a kind of a box from a rectangle of thick paper on a toothpick. The paper is coated with chalk or molasses and stuck into the ground among the leaves. Traps are replaced as necessary. Watering the plant all this time should be very moderate, so that the top layer of soil does not get wet. This is best done by placing the pot in a large container with water. The window sill and the surface of the earth are vacuumed without a brush. It easily draws any flying insects.
After processing, the disposable bag must be discarded, the usual empty outside the apartment and disinfected with dichlorvos.
After the destruction of adult blackflies in indoor pots, it is necessary to occupy the land, in which a large number of larvae still remain. The dried up and loosened earth is poured with a solution of one of the proven popular recipes:
- Garlic Infusion. One head of garlic is crushed and 0.5 liters of water is poured. Infusion stand for several hours, then plentifully watered the earth, sprayed the whole plant, and the remnants of garlic pulp mixed with the upper layer of the earth.
- A solution of potassium permanganate. Weak pale pink solution process the plant 1 time per week.
- Soap solution. In one liter of warm water dissolve 20 g of soap. The resulting soapy water is watered and sprayed on a sick specimen weekly.
- Preparation from worms for pets. It is bred in a dosage suitable for the treatment of cats and puppies and watered the affected plant every week.
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Folk remedies help with a low degree of infection.
It is also convenient to remove black flies from flowers in pots using a plastic bag of such a size that it fits the whole plant. It is important to arrange the package so that not a single branch is accepted. Dichlofos is sprayed under the bag and quickly tied with a rope in the middle of the pot. In such a greenhouse, all insects die within a few hours. It is necessary to remove the package in another room, where the flowers did not stand, and in the same place to carry out the treatment with a vacuum cleaner and place glue traps. After two weeks, the plants treated with dichlorvos return to their place.
Chemicals from the flies
If the folk remedies did not help get rid of the flies in a flower pot, the achievements of modern chemistry cannot be avoided. Strongly infected land must be changed completely, freeing the roots from it. Then the whole plant together with the roots is treated with one of the special insecticides."Fitoverm", "Aktellik", "Bazudin", "Aktara" will be suitable for the destruction of pests.
For the prevention of re-infection, only steamed or insecticide-spilled soil should be used and watering should be followed, avoiding excessive soil moisture in the pot.
Ways to combat flower flies - video
