Thrips on houseplants. Great harm from small pests

Without exaggeration, we can say that roomplants have long adorned people's lives, and many are happy to grow them, arranging wonderful green corners in their home. Inhabitants of balconies and window sills please us with the freshness of the leaves, the beauty and fragrance of the flowers, if they are healthy, beautiful and well developed.

Alas, together with your favorite flowers on the windowsillsoften uninvited guests - pests of houseplants: thrips, aphids, whiteflies and many others. Weakened by improper care, plants become their prey. In the dry and warm air of the apartment pests reproduce with unheard-of speed.

All pests are divided into two groups: sucking and gnawing. "Rodents" eat leaves and flowers, and suckers, without violating the integrity of tissues, feed on cell sap. It is these insects that most annoy plant plants. They are so small that sometimes they can not be seen with the naked eye. Symptoms of the lesion are not detected immediately, but only when the pests are well popyrovav and multiplying, moved their "disco" to neighboring healthy plants.

The most intrusive pests are thrips. On indoor plants they settle in entire colonies, settling on the lower surface of the leaves. These are very small (1-1,5mm), but extremely gluttonous and mobile insects, leading a hidden way of life. They are barely noticeable, you can consider them, except that armed with a magnifying glass, and preferably a microscope.

Adult insects and larvae keep together, and"Harmful", too, together. It happens that the carriers of viruses are also thrips. On indoor plants, they can develop year-round. By sucking out the cell sap, insects damage the tissues of the leaf. They get both buds and flowers, the plant weakens and completely loses its decorativeness. In this case, thrips are polyphagous and almost any indoor flower can suffer from them. A sure sign that triplets on houseplants have settled long and long: on the underside of the sheet are visible silvery, like mica windows - the consequence of filling the air with devastated plant cells. On the upper side there are many bright points and strokes, whitish spots.

Unfortunately, to destroy thrips at roomplants is not so easy, this enemy does not give up easily. Moreover, I would like not only to get rid of unexpected invaders, but also to preserve the flower, to restore to it health and beauty. It is recommended to isolate the infected plants where possible, and carefully clean the place where they stood. Before processing, the plant needs to be washed under the shower with the use of laundry soap.

If the plant is infected slightly, you cantake advantage of the folk remedies and use the broths of the mustard mustard, the creeping bitter bitter, the tobacco of the present, the chilli pepper, the celandine of the large, the yarrow, and others. If these miraculous means do not manage lime thrips on indoor plants, the struggle continues. In the course is heavy artillery - Intexicides (preparations "Fitoverm", "Vertimek", "Decis", "Agravertin", "Actelik", "BI-58", "Karate", "Confidor" and others). Treatment is performed at least 2 times with an interval of 7-10 days.

And the last. Trips - a very persistent enemy, and many of the toxicides are toxic to humans (some of them are even dangerous). Fascinated by the struggle with pests indoor plants, do not hurt yourself!