Apples without worms - advice to summer residents.

Hello, apple lovers!

Holes in apples are a real disaster! Of course, not critical) But I don't want to share the harvest with the gnawers. Joke! With a grain of truth. You get upset when you see a beautiful apple with a shiny peel on the ground, you inhale its aroma, and then... you turn it over and see it - a hole. Perhaps even with an inhabitant.

My husband jokes that this is more high-calorie and nutritious - how, with meat! Oh, these men's jokes. And as a perfectionist and a woman with a quivering soul, such surprises are not to my heart

Fortunately, there are effective preventive measures to keep the percentage of spoiled apples in the orchard to a minimum. After reading my note to the end, you will learn effective prevention methods and you will be aware of how to stop sharing the harvest with gnawing 🌳

Let me first bore you a little with the theory) In fact, the fruits are not gnawed by worms. And caterpillars of a butterfly with an eloquent name - apple fruit fruit.

In the spring, the pest has the most active period in the life of active procreation. So to speak. As a result, they lay on apple leaves, and this happens about a week after the flowering of their favorite tree.

A caterpillar hatching from eggs wants to eat and soon moves into ovaries full of nutritious seeds. Migrating from one apple to another, the pest spoils the pulp and causes the crop to fall at the feet of the summer resident. It's a shame! And then the caterpillar hides from the autumn cold in the bark and fallen leaves in order to become an adult butterfly in the spring and repeat the cycle indefinitely.

But it is in our power to interrupt it in simple ways!

I will not write about spraying trees. Yes, it's effective, but very time consuming. Especially if you have big apple trees like mine. Now there are safe, cheap biological preparations, but I can't even imagine how and whether it is worth spraying a three-meter apple tree ...

1. But we can catch flying butterflies. It is easy to do it in the spring, and you need to be proactive. As soon as the apple trees bloom and 2 more weeks after the end of flowering.

Make a simple fixture: a sugar apple syrup trap. The recipe is simple:

• Boil a handful of apple slices (dry or fresh), add granulated sugar and boil for 2 hours;
• Add some dry yeast to attract the fermentation smell to the butterfly;
• Pour into a wide-mouth jar.
• Leave in the garden overnight: the apple moth is a nocturnal butterfly.

Our calculation is simple: the butterfly will sit on the "fragrant" surface and stay there forever. Before it gets to your apple tree!

2. Required close up cracks in apple trees and promptly clean them of old bark. And, remember: the carrion must be collected immediately, before the caterpillar has time to crawl to the apple tree again and find a new food item 🦊

3. Stick to the tree trunk sticky trapping beltso that no caterpillar can get off the ground.

These three tips will help save a good portion of the apple harvest from the moth. Please put "Thumbs up" in response, if it was helpful, and subscribe to the channel! I also advise you to read:Arends' saxifrage - plant one day and fall in love