Earwigs or diplura devour seedlings. What to do?

Threat to your seedlings diplura, is about to start shooting. In the summer it brings many benefits, devouring your enemies, plants such as aphids, mites, then the spring for these predators eating is exactly the seedlings of tomato, pepper, cucumber, cabbage and other, even germinating flowers on your site.

The main disappointment for the gardener - it's losing the seedlings for the cultivation of which is spent both money and time and effort. That's how you get up early in the morning and discover the young plants lying, as if they were cut with scissors. Newcomers to the holiday business, may not understand the reason for this disaster. But experienced gardeners know that it is the work of earwigs.

these very specific insects. Their appearance in many disgusted. They look really very threatening, it's probably due to the tail, resembling a crab claw. Here, many might think that this was the claw cut the stems of seedlings. But this is not the case, they gnaw the stems, as well as other pests.

What can we do to protect the seedlings from attack dvuhvostok? There are many methods described in the Internet, but they are powerless, if not eliminate the cause of the insects in the house or in the garden area. The fact that earwigs are found where humidity and a lot of decaying organic matter, such as wood and leaves. Priority to get rid of the undergrowth and grass in the area around the house. Remove, and even better to burn all the unnecessary rotten boards, rags, twigs. Eliminate sources of moisture, if any. Perhaps this is a leak in the sewer or water system.

Only after this work can proceed to exterminate insects and protect the seedlings. I try to avoid the use of chemicals to combat pests, so my advice is simple and accessible to everyone.

1) It is necessary to impose Boxes with seedlings or cotton adhesive tape for catching flies. Obkladyvayut tight enough to leave no passage. Insects do not feel comfortable touching wool, so try to get it.

2) diplura are exclusively nocturnal, morning they hide in dark and cool enough place. Given this, it is possible to arrange a kind of trap. To do this, we expand on the windowsills, wet newspaper or rags. Will only throw a trap insects with bated it.

3) Earwigs love sunflower oil and various fats. You can take advantage of it. For example, pour a little oil into a saucer, add the melted fat or lard. Insects, rushing for a treat, get stuck in oil and can not get out of it.

These three simple tips will help to get rid of dvuhvostok, thereby save the seedlings from death. But do not forget that they will be effective only if the full elimination of favorable conditions for their existence. In the presence of damp rotting leaves and wood in the area and close to the house, insects and will go and see you for the seedlings, and then to bed.

Despite the troubles that give us diplura, have them and use. They eat not only grass. For the most part they are predators. Therefore, with great pleasure that eat aphids, mites and other soft-bodied insects. So if you manage to save them from the seedlings in the spring, in the summer in the garden, they will not harm, but on the contrary, have a significant help. Just them a reasonable amount in your territory better control.

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