The bedbug-soldier – pest of the garden plant

In summer on the dacha, there are different insects. One of them is bug-soldier. It sucks the SAP from green plants. Larvae destroy the greens in the beds. Spread around the garden in large numbers, insect harm to crops.

Appearance and habitat

The pest belongs to the family of Krasnolobov. The habitat of the bug-soldier is quite wide: North Africa, North America, the Temperate regions of Europe and Northern Palearctic. The average size of the bug is about 1 cm to Notice it only at a very bright red color with black patterns and dots on the back. Sometimes there are yellow bugs-soldiers with similar patterns on the back.

Especially in early spring, large swarms of these insects certainly you can find about fences, woodpile, tree trunks and stumps. In these places the bugs-soldiers just resting, and mating. Red pests do not disdain almost no culture, actively lay eggs in the inner plant tissues, in leaves, stems and eat the plant food. Winters bug-soldier, usually under leaves. And in the spring one of the first creeps to the sun.

How to deal with bed bugs pests?

Safe solutions against the bedbug-soldier: a decoction of onion peel and the aqueous solution of the ash. To prepare the first infusion take 200 grams of onion peel and leave for 5 days in 10 liters of water. Then the broth strain and sprinkle them with plants. For the second solution take 100 grams of ash per 10 liters of water. Some gardeners apply a water solution of mustard sareptana for spraying plants. Per 10 liters of water is taken 100 grams of mustard.

If pests in the garden is not so much, you can just collect them by hand and burn. Apply by spraying only in case of massive invasion of bedbugs.

One of variants of struggle with a bedbug: planting of the plant black cohosh. It is also known as similitude. Bug-soldier not tolerate photoswest aromatic herbs and very soon leaves the area. So, zimkitha saves you from having to handle the toxic garden chemicals. Moreover, black cohosh is in fact very beautiful.

A popular way of dealing with bedbugs is the treatment of garden pesticides. However, this method has several disadvantages. Harmful substances rather quickly accumulate in the soil and plants. And the pests after some time, develop immunity to them.

In order that the bugs didn't bother the trees, cover trunks with solution of lime and dig the ground in tree trunks circle.