Content
- Common pests on barberry - an overview
- Important Barberry Pests - Tips for Natural Control
- Sauerdorn-Bohrfliegen fights barberry by its own power
- Tips
The barberry sawdust loves to nibble on barberries
Common pests on barberry - an overview
Thorns and poisonous ingredients do not protect barberry from pests. This guide covers the most common insects that make life difficult for a pest. Learn more about how the wild fruit trees defend against the rabble on their own.
Important Barberry Pests - Tips for Natural Control
Home gardeners complain primarily about voracious caterpillars on barberries. Moreover, various sucking insects make their way over the leaves and shoots. The most important pests with tips for biological control read here:
Apart from the larvae of the barberry sawdust, various species of butterflies have chosen ornamental and wild fruit trees as a kindergarten.In this case, you should only consider fighting if there is a high level of infestation. In the face of global insect killing, fluttering butterflies are a rarity in our gardens.
Sauerdorn-Bohrfliegen fights barberry by its own power
A close relative of the dreaded cherry fruit fly has specialized in the infestation of barberries. The Sourthorn Drill Fly (Rhagoletis meigenii) lays an egg in each berryberry berry in the summer so that the larvae feed on the seed.
Of course, the pests have made the bill without the host. Researchers found that Berberis vulgaris kills the infected seeds along with the maggots. In this case, a sour spike specifically distinguishes between berries with one or two seeds. In order not to impair the chances of reproduction, berries with only one seed are spared from the control strategy.
The task of the gardener is in this case in a careful care of his barberry, so that the shrubs are equipped for fighting on their own.
Tips
If no insects or caterpillars are found on a weakening barberry even with a magnifying glass, the shrub suffers from an illness. Typical symptoms are curled leaf margins, yellowish to reddish-brown leaf spots or pustules on the undersides of the leaves. A strong pruning into healthy wood is the first step for a successful treatment.