To get a good harvest of apples very often prevent pests of apple trees, which she has a lot of. Therefore, all those who grow apple trees in the garden, it is important to know all about pest control of this tree.
How to protect the apple tree from the sawfly
Apple pests and control are difficult because it is difficult for an inexperienced gardener to recognize a specific pest in order to choose an effective measure to eliminate it. In particular, if you notice an insect pest of apple trees, it can be a sawfly.
Recognize sawfly can be by damage: it affects only the young ovary of the fruit, of which rapidly eats the core. The external characteristics of this apple pest are similar to a bee, but only in length it rarely reaches 0.7 cm. 
The sawfly without problems experiences even the most severe winters in the soil under garden trees, and already 5 days before the garden blossoms its larvae get out and start laying eggs in the buds and blossoms of the apple tree. To effectively control sawflies, you need to consider the following facts:
- the pest does not extend to neighboring trees, therefore, it is necessary to process only the affected;
- The main harm is caused by adults, who lay eggs and with whom it is necessary to begin the fight before the garden begins to bloom;
- the larvae can be effectively destroyed only after the ovaries form on the tree.
So that the pest could not hit the tree in principle, it is important to regularly loosen the soil under the fruit trees. In the winter and early spring, it can be digged up with a complete overturning of the layers of the earth in order to limit the access of air to the larvae.
Measures to combat apple bloom
Flowerbird - This is a brown-brown bug, which has a small size but is distinguished by a long proboscis. It appears much earlier than the sawfly and can infect the buds and buds of the apple tree, which then do not bloom. 
If he really hit your garden, juice will begin to stand out from the buds, and the buds and leaves will remain in a dried state. The flower beetle is dangerous because it winters in fallen leaves and bark of fruit trees, and after a kidney damage it can live on the tree for another month, feeding on already spreading leaves.
therefore for the prevention of pests in the autumn it is important to remove all the leaves from under the tree and burn them. Also worth taking care of whitewashing trunks.
What is to spray the apple from the flower beetle? For this purpose it is recommended to use Chlorofos solution stirred at 0.2%.
But effective spraying will be only if they are carried out after bud break. But if you managed to notice the pests earlier, they are recommended to be shaken from the tree to the canvas and the collected bugs drown in water. One such procedure will be small, so they should be repeated 3-4 times until the temperature rises above +10 ° C.
Important! It is important to prevent the appearance of pests on apple trees, since even a successful spraying will not help save part of the crop. Therefore, it is important to timely cultivate the soil around the trunk, whitewash it, treat wounds and remove the affected parts of the bark. Also do not forget about pruning branches.
How to protect the trees from the codling moth
Probably the most dangerous pest of the apple crop is codling moth, which strikes and destroys apples, preventing them from even reaching maturity. 
The caterpillar moths hibernate under the bark, and by the time the ovaries grow on the apple tree, they manage to survive the butterfly stage (it is characterized by the color of the wings of a light black color) and again become a pink caterpillar. Only one individual apple codling moth is able to destroy up to 3-4 apples.
The most unpleasant thing is that it is simply impossible to fight the moth at the stage when it is already striking the fruit. Therefore, it is important to process wood from it in early spring before the buds swell and lay eggs. To do this, it is important to clean all the dead bark from the trunks of the tree and burn it.
Already after flowering the apple tree will need spraying arsenic acid calcium, 30 grams of which must be mixed with 40 grams of lime and diluted in 10 liters of water.
But those fruits that have already been damaged, must be buried in the ground. If the damage is minor, then the apples can be consumed, having previously treated with boiling water. Caterpillars of the Coddle Moth it is also effective to catch into pieces of cloth dipped in apple compote, kvass or cheese, and hung along branches.
How to deal with the apple shield
Such a pest as apple shchitovka, harms not only the fruit, but also the tree itself, because this small insect is a pest of the apple tree trunk, sucking the juice out of it. As a result, the apple tree is weakened and begins to hurt with black cancer; bark beetles also begin to torment it.
This pest practically does not leave its shelter on the bark of an apple tree, and in early spring solid shields can form on the tree, which actively destroy the tree.
In order to prevent spreading of the apple tree, measures to combat it must be applied at the stage when the larvae are just waking up. At that time the tree is sprayed with Karbofos or Metaphos (at a concentration of not more than 0.2%).
But since this will not allow the eggs to be removed, until the buds have managed to blossom on the apple tree, it also costs additionally sprinkle "Nitrafen" at a concentration of 2% (you can also use a solution of 1% solution of "DNOC").
What to do if the apple tree was attacked by the hawthorn moth
Externally hawthorn moth resembles very small butterflies, with a wingspan of no more than 0.6 cm and a body length of no more than 0.5 cm. Its danger lies in the fact that the diet of this pest are the green leaves of the apple tree.
Moth pupae overwinter under fallen leaves and in the damaged bark; therefore, they can also be considered pests of the apple bark, which they no less intensively destroy.
To prevent the reproduction of the hawthorn moth, even before flowering is important spray wood with insecticides, which will fit:
- Cyanox;
- Zolon;
- "Malathion";
- "Metathion";
- "Metaphos";
- "Nexion";
- "Phosphamide".
Important! In fact, all of the above preparations for combating the hawthorn moth show efficacy only in the fight against young caterpillars, which is why it is so important to carry out spraying as early as possible. If you notice a pest still in the state of a butterfly and the buds on the tree have not yet dissolved, use "Nitrafen", "Oleocuprite" for processing. It is also important to destroy the arachnids, which the caterpillars form on the back of each leaf.
Ways to combat apple moth
This pest manifests itself in the fall, when gardeners usually forget about them. Apple moth represents butterflies, whose wings are 3 cm in size and have a gray-yellow color (only male differs in this size, females are smaller in size).
But they inflict their main harm from early spring, although it is not so easy to notice them. They move very easily between the leaves and gradually gnaw leaves, buds and flowers. But if the defeat is massive, only leaf skeletons can remain on the apple tree.
After the apple tree blossoms, the caterpillars usually descend into the soil where pupae are created, and only by September butterflies begin to fly out from the shelter.
As a fight with peppered moth recommended collect caterpillars from the tree, and process even before the bud breaks from pests of an apple tree - "Nitrafen" or "Olekupkrit". In the later stages, karbofos, mathion, nexion or chlorophos can be used.
Still in the autumn on the trunks of apple trees important leave trap belts which will not allow the peppered moth to leave the eggs high in the crowns of the tree. If they set it aside only on the apple tree trunk, in the spring they will be easily destroyed by treating the solution from nitrophene.
Green aphid on apple tree, what to do
Green aphid it is very difficult to notice in the early stages of a lesion, since this pest is very shallow. But this does not prevent him from destroying the entire garden, especially young trees, and these pests of the apple tree are the most active and dangerous in the spring.
The first signs of aphids are twisted and dried leaves of the tree, as the aphids feed on the sap of the buds and young leaves. In this case, the pest multiplies very rapidly and can change 20 generations in one summer season. Every second is able to grow wings and move to a new tree.
Important! Aphid vectors are garden ants, which must also be actively fought.
To reduce the impact of aphids and try to completely remove it from the tree, all the apple trees will need to be washed with water from a hose. It is recommended to carry out such procedures daily. If we are talking about undersized varieties of apple trees, then they can spray with soapy water (for the solution, use 1 liter of water and 200 grams of liquid soap).
Did you know? In the fight against aphids on apples and other garden trees, you can be helped by natural defenders, such as syphid flies, ladybugs and gold-eyed. To attract these insects between the trees, it is recommended to sow oats and alfalfa. When you notice a lot of beneficial insects, planting grass needs to be burned so that they start looking for shelter and food in the trees with aphids.
How to protect the apple tree from the barnyard?
Mediankathat hits apple trees, also called leaflet. From early spring the adult insect has a yellowish-green or bright green color, but by the autumn it becomes red. It is extremely difficult to notice the verdigrisus, since its length is only 0.3-0.4 cm.
But the danger for apple trees is flat orange larvae of the medyka, which over time can become green-blue. They actively feed on the juice from the leaves, which have not even had time to blossom, and leave sticky droplets at the lesion sites, which stick together leaves and buds. These drops also cause the development of fungus.
When reincarnating into an adult plant, the creeper scatters throughout the garden, but by the autumn it still returns to the apple tree in order to lay eggs.
In the fight against vermin, very effective tinctures made from bitter pepper. Fumigation of the garden with tobacco smoke also helps. To do this, spread around the garden moist straw and tobacco leaves on top of it and set it on fire in calm weather. Since the straw will only smolder, fumigation can last up to 3 hours.
From such a procedure, the fishworm will simply fall down, which is why it is so important to dig up all the soil under the apple trees at the end in order to prevent the pest from recovering.
Ways to fight with leaflets
Sheet worm many called apple moth butterflybecause most of its life the insect is a small butterfly with dark gray wings.
But the danger is not butterflies, but dark-headed yellow-green caterpillars that feed on apple leaves. One summer season allows you to safely change the slice of 4 generations of moths, which is extremely dangerous for an apple orchard.
It is possible to destroy the moth by chemical means, but such treatments severely damage the tree and the fruits. Therefore it is best to use wormwoodfrom which you can prepare an infusion or decoction for spraying:
- For the infusion wormwood must be very finely chopped, filling half a bucket of 10 liters. All this is filled with cold water and infused only 24 hours. After this, the liquid, along with the wormwood, is boiled, filtered, diluted twice and used for spraying.
Dry tea is pounded for broth, which requires only 1 kg for boiling in 10 liters of water. After 15 minutes of boiling, the liquid must be cooled and can be used for spraying. Procedures should be repeated three times during the week. To enhance the broth, you can add 40 grams of soap or 1 kg of litter, infused 2-3 days.
Dry tea is pounded for broth, which requires only 1 kg for boiling in 10 liters of water. After 15 minutes of boiling, the liquid must be cooled and can be used for spraying. Procedures should be repeated three times during the week. To enhance the broth, you can add 40 grams of soap or 1 kg of litter, infused 2-3 days.Did you know? Garden plots, around which grows bitter wormwood, are much less likely to be affected by apple leafworms, since even the smell of this plant scares off insects. In addition, infusions of wormwood are effective in the fight against moths, shovels, moths and sawflies.
How to destroy the apple moth?
Molwhich affects apple trees, is very similar to a regular mole and measures up to 2 cm. The main danger that it poses is the gnawing of the flesh of the leaves, which inevitably leads to their death. Also shoots sprouted with cobwebs may not even blossom.
If the garden does not come to the rescue, it can remain bare, and only shreds of cobwebs will hang on its branches.
To combat moths on apple trees, it is effective to collect its cocoons and burn them, and in early spring it is important to remove brown leaves from the tree, which also hides the cocoon. You should also spray the apple with a solution of red pepper and shag, for which you will need:
- bag (10 g) of ground red pepper;
- pack of shag;
- a bottle of potassium permanganate;
- garlic and onion peels;
- 10 liters of water.
In the pest control of apples and apple trees, it is very important to spray the garden in time to prevent them from spreading. Even if you did not notice the traces of an attack in your garden, you should not abandon preventive measures, as many flying insects can hit your apple trees in the middle of the season, arriving from a neighboring garden.
