Butterfly-hawthorn: innocent, but very harmful ...

On hearing the butterfly-hawthorn seems to the inhabitantsome kind of stranger. However, this is not the case! Hawthorn is the most famous butterfly in Russia. In the summer it can always be found in our gardens. It is an insect of medium size with pure white wings, penetrated by black veins. All its activities consist of flights from one flower to another. Externally, the butterfly-haw is a very sweet and innocent creature. In principle, this is in part true. Why partly? Read our article and find out!

The cycle of life

The larvae of this butterfly, like all the others,are caterpillars. These are very gluttonous creatures that inflict enormous damage on cultivated plants! In the middle of summer, the butterfly-butterfly lays its eggs on the apple-tree leaves. A group of 60 piles are formed. Surprisingly, one such butterfly is able to postpone up to ... 500 eggs!

After 10-12 days from the eggs appear caterpillars. They immediately eat out the flesh from the leaves, causing loss to gardeners. In autumn, they fasten dry damaged leaves with a special spider web, arranging their winter nests in them. These "houses" can be seen on the branches of the apple tree - they hang there like cocoons. Although, why "like"! Inside these leaves there are real cocoons, which the caterpillars weave themselves!

In spring these insects come out and eat buds andkidneys, and then - leaves and flowers! First, the pests are grouped, and then they creep in different directions. These gluttonous creatures inflict damage on such fruit trees as rowan, pear, apple, bird cherry, cherry. When they are fattened, they pupate ...

In early summer, a winged insect flies out of the pupa, which, in turn, lays the testicles onleaves. In other words, everything starts anew ... Here is such an interesting mechanism of transformation, which is of exceptional interest for biologists. However, this can not be said about gardeners ... They have one sadness in their hearts! Friends, in order not to upset you, we will now talk about how to deal with the hawthorn.

Methods of combating the butterfly-hawthorn and its larvae

In winter, the collection and burning of caterpillarsnests hanging in the trees. This event is conducted in order to destroy the pupae at the time when the fall fall begins. You can put some kind of litter under the trees and just shake the pests down.
Bring in your garden insectivorous birds! They will do all the work for you - they will destroy all nests of apple fruiting.
Fighting caterpillars of hawthorn is produced by chemical (bacterial) preparations, for example, "Lepidocid" or "Bitoxybacillin".
In the spring the trees are sprayed before floweringinsecticides. A good solution of chlorophosic solution in the following ratio: 20 g per 10 liters of water. Excellent means are Metafos, Gardona, Antio, Zolon, Carbofos, Metation, Nexion, Nitrafen and others.
But, even taking into account insecticide-treated trees, you need to look at the leaves from time to time, destroying the residual caterpillar nests found.
It should be ensured that your garden is not a breeding ground for weeds, since the butterfly-haw is still that lover of collecting pollen on flowering weeds.