Who eats seedlings of cucumbers in a greenhouse in the garden: what to do, how to process

Before the new planting season, it's good to talk about who eats cucumber seedlings in the greenhouse. Not only we, people, eat crispy cucumbers with pleasure, rodents, insects, and worms like to feast on this plant. You can lose all the seedlings in one night and still not know who did it.

Who eats cucumber seedlings in the garden

Greenhouse owners will agree that the main pests of cucumbers that affect adult plants and seedlings are the whitefly, wireworm, mole cricket, slugs, caterpillars of the winter scoop.

How to protect cucumbers from Medvedka

Cucumbers suffer from Medvedka both in the open field and in greenhouses. The pest is especially common in the central zone of the Russian Federation. It is possible that you have got a bear if the seedlings of cucumbers or already grown plants dry out.

Mature individuals - adults - hibernate deep in the ground. In early spring, the pests wake up and lay their eggs in the nests. In one clutch there can be up to 500 pieces. Cucumber roots are damaged by adults and their larvae. Moist loose soil attracts them to cucumber beds with seedlings, pests make many moves in the ground. During the day, the pest sits in holes, and at night it eats the roots of cucumber seedlings.

To prevent the seedlings from being eaten by the bear, traps are made from manure. Fresh manure is a favorite delicacy of this pest. Trapping holes measuring 50 by 50 cm are dug in the fall and filled with cow dung. When the negative temperature is set, the manure is taken out and scattered on the ground. Medvedki sleep at this time, so they do not move and freeze.

You can protect newly planted cucumbers from pests with kerosene. To scare away the pest, heaps of branches or boards are laid out around the ridge and watered abundantly with kerosene.Medvedka goes away from the fragrant beds. For those who prefer chemicals to protect seedlings, insecticides are suitable: Thunder, Phenaksin, Grizzly. They are used to make baits.

Who cuts seedlings

The problem faced by many summer residents: cucumber seedlings, which were briskly green in the greenhouse yesterday, have disappeared today. Hemp sticks out of the ground, and cotyledon leaves lie nearby. Unknown pests gnaw through the stalk, bite right at ground level.

It is difficult to determine who ate the cucumber shoots, since it could be a wireworm or a cockchafer larva. Young stalks of cucumbers are often gnawed by gray scoop caterpillars, they can be found if you dig up the ground next to a dead plant.

May beetle larvae should be collected while digging the ridge before planting cucumbers.Treat the ascended plants with onion or garlic infusion, the worms do not like them. Chemical preparations are more reliable means for pest control (beetle). To get rid of it, you can safely recommend drugs to summer residents:

• Nemabakt;
• Aktara;
• Anti-crunch.

Wireworm

Wireworm is found in most regions located in the temperate climate zone. The wireworm is called the larva of the click beetle, living in the soil for a long time (2-5 years). The larva in the second year of life eats the roots of the plant, leading to its death.

Wireworm, thanks to its dense chitinous cover, can easily penetrate into the stems of adult cucumbers. The main lash of the cucumber, in which the wireworm has settled, bends over time and gradually dries out.

You can reduce the number of pest larvae with the help of traps. Arrange them in the spring in the thawed earth, season with chopped vegetables. To save the cucumbers, the drug "Bazudin" is instilled along the perimeter of the ridges, it is released in the form of a powder.

Winter Owl

Winter scoop - a large (up to 2 cm) butterfly with a wingspan of about 5 cm, lays eggs on any plants, including cucumber seedlings. If the seedlings have a stalk at ground level that has become thin or a stump sticks out of the ground instead, it means that young cucumbers in the greenhouse are being destroyed by the caterpillar of the winter scoop.

Caterpillars can reach a length of 5 cm, they are brown or dark gray (almost black) in color. Voracious pests live in the soil, eat the underground parts of plants, and primarily damage the root. To protect the root part from the scoop, you need to add one of the preparations to the wells before planting cucumbers:

• Initiate;
• Zemlin;
• Bazudin.

As a preventive measure when digging the soil, select and destroy caterpillars and larvae. Removal of weeds is also an effective preventive measure against winter armyworm and its larvae.

Who eats seedlings

The whitefly has become a real scourge of greenhouses - a butterfly with a pale yellow body 0.9-1.1 mm long, the surface of two pairs of wings is covered with white pollen. Butterfly larvae eat seedlings, their flat-round body is covered with small spikes.

Female survives winter at -12°C. During the season, 10 or more generations of whiteflies can appear from one individual. The pest destroys cucumber seedlings and depresses adult plants: the larvae suck the juice, the adults carry a fungal infection.It is very difficult to destroy the whitefly.

You can determine that your whitefly is eating your cucumber by the following signs:

• white dots are visible on the leaves;
• sticky discharge visible on stem surface;
• cucumbers have twisted leaves;
• larvae resembling scales are visible on the lower surface of the leaf plate of cucumbers;
• when the cucumber whip is shaken, white moths will appear.

How to protect seedlings from whiteflies

Protection of seedlings begins long before planting them in the greenhouse. Every autumn, after harvesting, it is necessary to process the soil and greenhouse structures with the help of sulfur checkers, having previously cleared the ridges from plant residues. It is better to set fire to checkers at night.Remove the top layer of soil (5-7 cm) from the greenhouse together with the pest larvae.

You can speed up the destruction of the pest on cucumbers with the help of hand-made traps, for this you need to have the following on hand:

• castor oil (1 hour);
• rosin (1 hour);
• honey (1h);
• Vaseline (1 hour).

Add the remaining ingredients to the heated rosin and mix everything. When the mixture has cooled, spread it on long strips of paper, hang the resulting ribbons in the greenhouse. The pest control system can be expanded with folk recipes or chemicals.

From folk methods, recipes for infusions are useful, the active component of which can be:

• garlic;
• dandelion roots;
• yarrow.

To prevent the pest from eating the fragile stems of cucumbers, infusion treatments should be carried out at least once every 10 days. For those who do not trust folk methods, chemistry will come to the rescue. Summer residents fight whiteflies with drugs:

• Actellik;
• Fufanon;
• Biotlin.

Slugs on cucumber seedlings

In the humid climate of greenhouses, slugs breed well, they can be found in almost any region of the European part of the country. The insect has no limbs, its surface is covered with mucus, it looks like a snail without a shell.

The active life of the pest begins at night, during the day it hides at a depth of 8 cm.At night, slugs gnaw through the lashes and leaves of cucumbers, first of all, tender, young shoots suffer. The pest is very voracious, eating most of the leaves. When the fruiting period begins, the slugs eat the ovaries, and begin to gnaw on large cucumbers. Because of the slugs, you can lose a large percentage of the crop.

What to do to reduce the number of slugs in the greenhouse, each summer resident decides individually. Some people prefer to place baits from tomato tops, lettuce leaves and cucumbers from pests along the perimeter of the ridge. Plant residues are periodically destroyed along with slugs and replaced with new ones. Some pests can be removed by hand.

The pest has a very delicate belly, they will not climb onto the beds with cucumbers if around them around the entire perimeter you fill with any material from the list:

• sawdust;
• needles;
• coarse-grained sand;
• nutshell;
• broken shells.

From chemical preparations, the "Thunderstorm" remedy is popular against slugs, it is valid for 3 weeks. At least 2 treatments will be required from pests during the season. Another drug "Slug-Eater" is used once during the summer, its effect is shorter and lasts only 2 weeks. The preparations are in the form of granules, they need to be laid out not only along the border of the ridge, but also between the bushes.

Aphid

Seedlings can die due to the fault of aphids, if soil taken from the garden was used for planting, it was not treated from pests and diseases. Aphids are very prolific, up to 20 generations of the pest appear during the summer. The optimal conditions for active reproduction of the pest are high humidity and air temperature from 25 ° C.

Aphids suck the juice from the leaves, petioles and stems of the cucumber. You can fight the pest with folk methods. When the seedlings of cucumbers are still small, they can simply be washed with soapy water. It is difficult to wash adult bushes, so they prepare an herbal infusion with the addition of soap and spray the leaves and bushes from pests.

Who eats seeds

The larva of the sprout fly causes great damage to cucumbers. All cucurbits are affected by this pest. Many summer residents complain about poor germination when sowing seeds. In some cases, the problem is in the seed, but if it is impossible to find its remains in the hole, this means that someone eats all the cucumber seeds.

Eat the seeds of the sprout fly larvae. This insect is colored gray, the body reaches 5 mm in length, the years of the pest begin in the spring. The fly makes clutches in damp places, prefers to lay on manure that is poorly embedded in the soil.Larvae appear after 10 days, during the summer up to 3 generations of the pest may appear.

To prevent the spread of the sprout fly, simple measures are enough:

• dig the soil deep;
• muck carefully into the ground.

On the advice of experienced gardeners, the Ant preparation can neutralize the larvae, when you plant seeds, you need to mix it with the soil and sprinkle the surface of the hole with it.

Information about pests and how to deal with them will help you take the necessary measures in time to save cucumber seedlings.

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