Pests and control of lilies

Before you buy a lily for your plot,Consider each bulb of it. After all, lured by the label, you can buy an unhealthy plant. The lily bulb must be firm and firm. It should not be mold. The roots of a healthy specimen in length are at least five centimeters. But, in addition to plant diseases, beginner lovers are also awaited by lily pests. About them will be discussed in this article, as well as how and what to fight with them. Pest lilies in their numbers exceed a dozen species. These include greenhouse and lily aphid, thrips, bulbous rattle, hoverfly, leaf beetle bulbous and other harmful insects.

Lily pests: red beetle

The most dangerous and common enemy of lilies is visible on the plant with the naked eye. Going to the flower, you can easily notice how he sits on the leaves and eats them.

He is called first when ailments are listed.lilies (pests). The red lily beetle, it is a bulbous rattle or a beetle beetle. Sometimes people call it “fireman” - the red color is to blame. But he got the nickname "rattle" because if you press it, the insect is capable of making characteristic sounds. Of particular danger are the voracious larvae of this beetle. They have a pink color, and the surface of the body is covered with lumps of mucus of a green-brown shade. Such pests of lilies (red beetle and its larvae) eat leaves almost completely.

If enemies were discovered, then the question arises - how to treat lilies from pests? As soon as the larvae were found on the leaves, the flowers should be sprayed with insecticide.

Onion leaf beetle

What other pests can attack lilies?The red lily beetle in this regard passes the baton to the onion leaf beetle. This specimen is known for nibbling leaves at the edges, or creating oval-shaped holes in them. And its larvae leave one “skeleton” from the leaves. The adult beetle has an orange color and an oval-shaped body. His abdomen is black and his legs are red. The larvae are covered with mucus, which has a blackish tint. These pests of lilies hibernate in the soil, surface at the end of April and lay eggs. The hatched larvae live for about twenty days, and then pupation occurs. In general, one generation is formed.

Pest lilies and the fight against them, though similar, buthave certain differences. In this case, in addition to the treatment of plants with insecticides, it is necessary to regularly destroy weeds and collect beetles by hand.

Aphid

This pest is very small and forms whole colonies on the leaves. It greatly weakens the plant, and also tolerates a large number of infections of viral origin.

To grow on your site and flourishedbeautiful and healthy lily, pests (beetle, aphid and others) must be mercilessly destroyed. In particular, aphids can be defeated with the help of "Karbofos", "Fitoverma" and other insecticides.

Onion mite root

This pest damages a lot of bulbous plants. Its length is not even one millimeter. Mite feeds onion scales, with the result that causes rotting of the bulb.

Лилия, пораженная клещом, останавливает свой рост.Its leaves turn yellow and gradually fade. A weakened plant is exposed to various other diseases and eventually dies. The tick spreads through the soil along with planting material or through a tillage tool.

Before treating lilies for pests,it is necessary to establish which of them struck the plant. When inspecting the bulbs affected by the mite, you can find a lot of passages and cavities in which the brown powder is located. Such bulbs should be removed after scooping. All plant residues are carefully collected and destroyed. If the presence of this pest is suspected in the planting material, then all the bulbs should be held in the solution of Karbofos for fifteen minutes or peppered with chalk. Sticking to the body of mites chalk leads them to death from the desiccation. If the pest has been identified during the growing season, then the lilies should be sprayed with a solution of rogora, but it is better to destroy all the diseased specimens. If your site has been infected, then it is impossible to grow bulbous plants on it for four years.

Lily pests. Flies

Larvae cause great damage to the bulbs.flies, who got their name for the ability to freeze in flight, while emitting a characteristic sound. In the bulbs, they eat the moves up and down. From May to June, these lily pests lay their eggs in the soil. Here there are gluttonous larvae that wait winter in the bulbs of plants. As a result of this “settling” in the spring, a weakened lily grows. The leaves of such a flower are ugly and have a yellow color.

Fighting them is digging up the soil.in the fall. And it should be done quite deeply, wrapping the layer. It is possible to interfere with egg laying by mulching the ground with peat or dusting it with “Basudin”. Also come to the aid of garlic, which should simply be planted around the perimeter of the garden.

Medvedka

We have already considered many pests of lilies and the fight against them. But in this list it is impossible to bypass the medvedka ordinary. This large insect has a brown color.

Medvedka settles nests in the soil at depthabout 10 cm. So that they are better ventilated, this pest destroys all the plants around, gnawing the underground part of the stem. In the area where the bear lives, you can find a huge number of holes in the soil. Especially well seen after the rain.

Бороться с этим насекомым можно несколькими in ways. The first is the destruction of nests. They are simply dug up, and the larvae and eggs are thrown to the top, where they die. To surely destroy all the nests, you need to dig a lot deep enough.

Another method is the placement of traps.In the spring on beds are laid out sheets of slate or plywood. Under them, Medvedka climbs to bask. It remains only to check the traps with a certain frequency and exterminate the pest. And another way - the creation of dung holes in the fall. Depths of half a meter filled with manure, in which the bear is arranged for wintering. As soon as the cold comes, the pits are cleaned and the contents are distributed throughout the area. As a result, insects die.

Nematodes

These are small round worms. They live in the soil, and the development of individuals occurs inside the plant.

Due to their vital activity on the leaves andstems form growths and tumors. You can suspect the presence of this parasite, seeing cracks in the trunk or deformed flowers. In addition, nematodes are capable of carrying various viral diseases.

The fight against these worms is to disinfect the soil, as well as the extermination of affected plants.

Potato scoop

Lily pests such as scoops, eat out the trunksplants from the inside. As a result of such damage, the flower breaks or fades. The caterpillar has a reddish-purple color and a bright red line stretching along the back. Eggs of these caterpillars spend all winter time on wild cereals, and in the summer they move to flowers and other cultivated plants. Pupation occurs in the soil near the damaged plants at a depth of five to fifteen centimeters.

To prevent the scoop invasion of lilies, it is necessary to thoroughly clean your area from weeds, as well as from all sorts of plant debris. All this must be collected and destroyed.

Thrips

In some cases, small insects having an elongated shape parasitize on the root system of lilies. They are called thrips. Their oral organs look like a proboscis.

These pests pierce plant tissue andsuck the juice out of it. The plant then weakens greatly, and its appearance loses its attractiveness. But the most dangerous thing is the thrips transmission of various viral diseases. For the year, these parasites can form from three to eight generations. It all depends on the type of pest, as well as on the temperature and humidity of the environment. The number of generations becomes much less if the ambient temperature drops. This is primarily due to the increase in the duration of the life cycle.

You can fight these insects withany insecticide systemic species. This may be, for example, "Karbofos" or "Fitoverm". Begin to process plants with the arrival of spring. Further processing is done every ten or twelve days.

All pests of lilies, photos and descriptions of whichpresented in this article are the most common and common in garden plots. But this does not mean that our list is exhausted. In addition to the considered insects, there are also others that infect these plants less frequently and also carry various diseases of viral and non-viral origin. But this is not a reason to despair and refuse such beautiful flowers on your site. The main thing is to study the available information and carry out preventive and curative measures in time. Then your daylily will look wonderful and delight your eyes with bright and healthy colors.