Potato moth – the wrecker of potatoes and vegetable cultures

In article the damage caused to quarantine wreckers – a potato moth is described. Cultures which are damaged by a potato moth are listed. Recommendations about fight methods with these the wrecker are provided.

Now to us inhabitants of villages and the settlement, zadavayavopros What to do with potatoes infected with a potato moth how with it to fight address? The potato moth damages not only potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes, pepper, eggplants, but also a dope, a nightshade and other wild-growing paslyonovy cultures.

The caterpillar harms. Damages leaves, chereshka, stalks of plants, potatoes tubers. A butterfly of a potato moth grayish, small, wingspan of 12-16 mm (at a male – 10-14 mm). One female can postpone from 100 to 300 eggs. The caterpillar has four age. Winters potato molv stages of a mature caterpillar or a doll. Develops in four generations, depending on conditions. The wrecker is capable to breed as in the field, and in warm storages. Transfers low temperatures, flies on considerable distances.

Before landing potatoes in storages touch and vybrakovyvayut with signs of damage and use only healthy seed material. Landing proizvodyatv optimum early terms.

In vegetation regularly survey and reveal the mines formed by caterpillars on leaves. For prevention of an ogoleniye of tubers bushes okuchivayutsloy lands not less 5sm. Skashivaniye and destruction of a potato tops of vegetable for 5-7dnsj to its usykhaniye. A crop clean in a short time. The dug-out tubers quickly take out from a zero, preventing an otkladka butterflies of eggs. Destroy the damaged potatoes and the vegetative remains, carry out fight against self-sowing and other paslyonovy weeds the tubers of potatoes Infected with a potato moth, fruits of tomatoes, eggplants are liable to destruction, or fumigation bromine methyl in special chambers but to the developed and approved norms.

In kartofelexranilishhax it is expedient to burn komovy sulfur (50ú/m3), perniciously operating on butterflies and caterpillars or to process fruits during 3-5minut 1 %-y water suspension bitoksicilina, lepidocida, or dendrobacilina with norm of an expense of 0,5 kg on 1 ton of potatoes. For processing of plants in vegetation use preparations according to the List of pesticides and yadoximikatov resolved in Ukraine, the confirmed Ukrgoskomissiyey of Cabinet council of Ukraine (Arrivo, 25 % to. e. (0,16½/hectare); BI-58, 40 % to. e. (1, 5-2,0½/hectare); Ashes of 35 % to. ye. (1,5-2,0½/hectare). Processing carry out right after identification of a butterfly of the wrecker. Repeated processings are carried out with an interval of 10-15 days.

On the basis of the Law of Ukraine About quarantine of plants the enterprises, farms and individuals in which territory there are centers of a potato moth, hold quarantine events at the expense of own means. And the otvetstvennostzavypolneniye of such actions in settlements lies on local government bodies.

L.Solovyyov, inspektornizhnegorsky rajonnogopunkta on quarantine of plants, I.ZLOBINA, a nachalniknizhnegorsky rayonnoystantsiya on protection of plants.