DIY mustard trapping belt from pests on trees
Hello everyone! Now, during the flowering period of garden fruit plants, it is more important than ever to protect them from pests: ants, bark beetle, aphids, American women and all other insects that encroach on our harvest.
The Internet is replete with various useful tips on how to make a so-called "hunting belt". Someone waves the trees with used machine oil, someone - PVA glue. But I do not approve of such dubious measures, and therefore I share with you my own recipe for a hunting belt, which catches beetles and does not harm the tree.
Criticism in the comments is welcome: the truth is born in a dispute, so if you write your own way, it will be great!
To make a catching belt you will need:
- mustard powder - 100 grams;
- warm water - 50 ml;
- mustard oil - 30-40 grams;
- cling film in which cheeses and sausages are wrapped;
- harness or rope;
- corrugated cardboard.
The cooking scheme is as follows:
First of all, tightly wrap the PET film around the plant stem. The height does not matter, the main thing is to make a 50 cm gap between the top edge of the film and the crown of the tree.
Then put cardboard on top of the film and tighten it with bundles in 2-3 places. The tighter the better.
I saturate the lower part of the resulting cardboard layer with mustard oil - pests will creep and fly into its smell. Coat the upper part of the belt with a mixture of water and mustard powder.
This is necessary so that those insects that were able to crawl through butter abandon their plans due to the pungent smell of mustard.
Neighbors also use bottle traps for insectsbut I cannot tell if this method works.
How do you get rid of pests on fruit?
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