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- The bamboo lice and their most effective opponents
- Why aphids and ants attack the bamboo together
- Where scale insects hide
- Wool and lice prefer Fargesien
- Tips & Tricks
The bamboo lice and their most effective opponents
Again and again the same bamboo lice and aphids, the leaves and stalks of the bamboo plants are attacked from March. Learn more about the most common types of lice and how to reliably get rid of them on bamboo plants:
Why aphids and ants attack the bamboo together
Aphids with their sweet excrement attract ants, who like to feed it. For this, the ants protect the aphids and breed them eagerly. For this purpose, they transport the sucking insects to still uninjured bamboo leaves and stalks.
Aphids tap the pathways of plants with their proboscis. This deforms the leaves and causes discoloration. In extreme cases, parts of the bamboo are dried up and die. On the excreted honey dew usually settle down soot throats. They cover the leaves with a black coating. It is recommended to destroy the bamboo to protect other plants from the virus.
Where scale insects hide
Scale insects are invisible to the naked eye. Because they hide under their brown shield. They mainly attack the bamboo stalks and suck out the sap. The robust bamboo plants only react visibly when so much plant juice has been sucked off that plant parts die off.
Conventional sprays do not reach hidden shield lice under their protective shield. Only remedies such as plant protection sticks, which are put into the soil and distribute their active ingredient through the roots, also work where no spray is coming. Dried up signs point to dead scale insects, on the other hand avoid living ones.
Wool and lice prefer Fargesien
Like all bamboo lice and aphids, wool and lice also suck the juice from bamboo plants. What sticky juice remains on leaves and stalks prove. In addition, they form whitish cotton balls, which are found on the petiole. Especially at Fargesien one discovers the white, light brown patterned lice under the Halmscheiden.
Regular preventative measures help to prevent bamboo pests and bamboo diseases. One of the most effective and natural lice killers is the settlement of useful opponents in the bamboo garden such as:
Also important: shower the bamboo regularly with a stream of hard water on the undersides of the leaves and thus wash away the vermin.
Tips & Tricks
Organic louse killer recipe - Fill the bucket with horsetail or stinging nettles, cover with water and leave to soak. After a day, the biological lice killer is finished. Distribute undiluted on the bamboo with a plant syringe. Repeat application frequently.