The vineyard is a wonderful decoration of the site, besides bringing a tasty and healthy harvest. But we all know that the plant, unfortunately, does not belong to unpretentious and requires constant monitoring and care. One of the common problems that gardeners face is how to deal with wasps in a vineyard. After all, these pests appear just at the time of ripening and can cause damage to the crop.
Who spoils the grapes?
If the question arises at the end of the summer, then the answer is unequivocal: these are wasps. With these pests be sure to fight. A single individual that survived the winter on a bush can bring a huge offspring to your summer cottage and cause a lot of problems.
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Imagine a wasp wintering, and with warming it began to build a nest and laid eggs. Soon at least 6 more pests form, and the uterus continues to lay eggs and multiply. This leads to a huge swarm is formed, which is able to destroy the grapes. 
In fact, before the formation of grapes, no one thinks about the fact that these insects can cause some kind of damage, because up to this point they are playing the role of orderlies and protect the shrub from other pests.
Important! Wasps eat bugs, caterpillars and slugs, thereby protecting the plant, but during the ripening of the grapes, they reincarnate into pests and can destroy the harvest.
How to protect the berries?
We offer to figure out how to protect the grapes from wasps, and find out what measures need to be taken so that the pests do not disturb your plants.
Destruction of nearby nests
Fortunately, the fight against wasps on grapes can be productive and effective. There are many ways, one of them - the destruction of nests. In the morning or in the evening it is necessary to calculate where the "houses" are located.
To do this, you just need to see where the insects fly from or where they are returning. When the location is known, it is necessary to wait for the late evening, when all able-bodied pests are in place, and spray insecticide into the nest.
Be sure to worry about their safety in advance. Insects, of course, do not like this procedure, and they will become aggressive, so dress so that there are no open areas of the body. 
Be sure to protect your face and eyes.. As for insecticides, it is necessary to give preference to those drugs that are designed to combat wasps, although you can use chemical preparations from various flying insects.
Use traps
Another option for how to protect the grapes from wasps is traps. For their manufacture will need plastic bottles and some honey, jam or sweet compote. The bottle is cut in half, sweetness is laid on its bottom, and then covered with the second half so that the neck is directed downwards.
The insect will fly to eat, and will not be able to fly out of the trap. This method is considered effective. The only "but" - these traps need to make a lot and place them around the vineyard.
Did you know? Virtually all wasps are predators. They feed offspring with small insects and various protein foods.
Poison bait
The next way to protect grapes from wasps is to arrange insecticide bait. Such a struggle begins before the appearance of bunches of grapes. To do this, mix the chemical with berries or fruit and place the molds with the mixture away from the vineyard.
Insects that arrive for a tasting, having tasted a treat, will give a signal to the rest of the wasps. There should be a lot of such baits, it is necessary to place them around the whole site where the shrub is planted.
Grapes can also be attacked by other pests: scutes, itchs, leafworms, mealybugs, aphids, mites, thrips, cycads.
Plants from pests
It is possible to fight off harmful insects with the help of plants whose smells absolutely cannot tolerate wasps. So that these uninvited guests do not appear in your vineyard, it is enough to plant basil, mint, lemon balm, wormwood or geranium not far from it. All these plants have a pronounced aroma that repels insects. 
Protective bags
Another method to save grapes from wasps is very humane, but rather laborious. It lies in the fact that it is necessary to sew bags of tulle or other suitable fabric. Each bunch is placed in such clothes, and berries will be reliably protected from pests. The most important thing is to fasten the fabric well, so that insects would not have a chance to get inside. This can be done with wire, rope or clothespins.
Important! Wasps do not tolerate the smell of bitter red pepper. You can hang its fruit on the shrub and thus protect the crop.
Planting fruit around the vineyard
It is believed that if you plant a shrub near fruit trees, the wasps will give preference to fruit, and thereby you just turn their attention. But the reliability of this method is not the highest, because it may happen that the year will be low-yielding, and insects will still absorb grapes.
Practice also planting simple varieties of shrubs near the elite. Argued that ordinary grapes attract insects much more. And choosing from two options, they will give preference to small, inconspicuous berries.
Smoke bomb
You can smoke insects from nests with smoke bombs. With all the reliability of this method should not be forgotten that acrid smoke, due to which pests and leave your site, can be absorbed into the leaves and fruits of plants. And later, before eating berries, they will need to be washed for a long time and thoroughly so that chemicals do not enter your body. 
Are there varieties that do not eat wasps?
Fortunately, there are varieties of grapes, totally unappealing to insects. Such varieties include Blagovest, Maritsa, Talisman, Cardinal of Moldova, Anniversary of Kherson Summer Resident and New Zaporizhia Gift. Just imagine how many problems you will lose by giving preference to these varieties that are not to the taste of winged pests.
Did you know? A wasp sting can cause terrible allergies and even provoke anaphylactic shock in both humans and animals.
The struggle with the wasps in the country with simple folk remedies also takes place. It is believed that the usual table vinegar with its pungent smell is able to scare them away. Experienced gardeners recommend spraying the bushes and clusters with vinegar. The substance is very easily washed off, and also, importantly, it is not toxic. 
The effectiveness of this method of struggle can not be called too high, but safe for humans and plants - definitely possible.
Exterminate wasps in the vineyard is quite difficult, but definitely possible. By choosing the right method and spending some effort, you will be generously rewarded with an excellent harvest of sweet ripe berries, which you will not have to share with annoying pests.
