At the very initial stage of growing eggplants, namely, seedlings of amateurs will face difficulties in the form of many pests.
To successfully deal with them in the coming season and be protected in future, read our article.
Eggplant seedlings pests photo
Aphid
Aphids are one of the most common pests. as eggplant seedlings, and adult plants. It causes significant damage to the plant, feeding on its juices. As a result the plant may die.
Spider mite
Often found in greenhouses. The tick on the underside of the leaves lives, feeds and develops. Differ in that their very difficult to withdraw, sometimes you have to make titanic efforts to clean the greenhouse from this pest.
First, the leaf is covered with barely noticeable whitish dots and pimples. Then they get bigger and the leaves dry and fall off. Causing great harm to plants, mite actively developing throughout the summer season. For the development of one generation takes from 15 to 30 days.
Whitefly greenhouse (greenhouse)
It causes enormous damage to vegetable crops and eggplant seedlings are no exception. They feed on plant sap, resulting in leaves curl, dry and fall off. When massive clusters can cause significant harm to pepper seedlings.
Wireworms
These are the larvae of click beetles. They hit the roots of seedlings eggplant and pepper. They can also go outside and eat up the lower leaves. Damaged by this pest plants lag far behind in growth, which affects the yield.
Medvedka
This is a large insect up to 5 cm. Paving the way underground, Medvedka damages the roots of a plant. Thereby causing great harm, both young shoots and adult plants. It prefers to live in moist, rich with overflowing soils.
Slugs naked
Harm to plants both in greenhouse and film shelters, and in open ground. Eat leaves of seedlings, because of what she is dying. The most active time for slugs is evening and night.
Colorado beetle
it the worst enemy of all the bushes. Eats the leaves of eggplant seedlings, lives on pepper less often. Larvae are especially dangerous of the Colorado potato beetle, they are characterized by an excellent appetite and can destroy young shoots entirely, this can be a real disaster. Eggplant seedlings are particularly affected.
Gnawing scoops
There are several types of this pest, potato, marsh, cotton and yellow. This is a butterfly caterpillar.. Eat leaves and the thinnest stalks of seedlings. Their fertility is very high, one female is able to lay up to 1000 eggs, of course, not all survive, but this is very much.
Pest control measures
Next, let's talk about how to treat eggplant seedlings from pests?
Aphids on eggplant seedlings, what to do?
For those who do not want to use chemicals on the site, you can use natural remedies. Spraying seedlings with decoction of wormwood and tansy will be very effective..
This solution is simply sprayed with young shoots. The pest does not tolerate this smell and dies, and those who survive will go away.
Read more about how to deal with aphids.
Fight against spider mite
Prevention measures in this case are primarily. After the season, the greenhouse must be disinfected with bleach. Remove the remnants of all previous landings.
This will help protect against this pest invasion. If the seedlings were attacked by a spider mite, then the same means are used as in the fight against aphids.
Read more about the fight against mites: chemicals and folk remedies.
Measures to combat whitefly greenhouse
Watering seedlings can wash off the larvae, while they sink and die. A more effective way, especially with a large defeat, is drugs "Confidor" and "Intavir".
Here lies the danger of seedling overflow, which can cause other problems. With a small lesion, you can also use the old reliable soap solution.
How to get rid of the whitefly on the plot and in the greenhouse?
Fighting wireworm
To combat this very dangerous pest use special traps. To do this, take sliced roots: potatoes, beets or carrots, stumble them on thin wooden sticks.
Then they are inserted into pre-prepared wells and sprinkled with earth, leaving 3-5 days. After that they collect the insects trapped and burn them.
Watch a video on how to make wireworm traps:
How to deal with Medvedka?
In order for the pest not to get to your area where eggplant seedlings grow, you need to make small grooves between the rows and fill them with sand soaked in kerosene or mothballs. Medvedka will not come close to you, and if it does, it will run away very quickly.
Read more about how to combat Medvedka: effective tools and folk methods.
Slugs and fighting them
Zolirovanie soil, powder tobacco dust will be very effective measures to combat this pest.
Also, as a preventive measure, one should not overmoisten the soil and regularly air the greenhouse.
Fighting the Colorado potato beetle
Zhukov and their larvae collected manually. To facilitate this process, you can lay out the bait. If there are a lot of them, it is advisable to resort to the means of chemistry, drug "Prestige" will be very effective.
Learn more about all methods of fighting the beetle, including folk methods.
Methods of dealing with scoops
To successfully combat this pest need to get rid of weeds, they are the nutrient medium where scoops breed.
Also for habitat disturbance necessary weeding and enhanced watering of seedlings.
Read more about fighting the scoop.
When growing eggplant seedlings, the diseases and pests of which we described in the article, the novice and even the experienced gardener face many unpleasant surprises.
It is not easy to fight them, but it is quite capable. Just follow the instructions. Good luck and good harvest!
Useful materials
Read other articles about growing and caring for eggplant seedlings:
- Different methods of cultivation: in peat tablets, in a snail and even on toilet paper.
- All features of sowing according to the lunar calendar.
- Golden rules for growing from seed.
- Features of cultivation in different regions of Russia: in the Urals, in Siberia and the Moscow region.
- Councils for the preparation of seeds before sowing, the correct feeding and picking of seedlings.
