Beetles on lilacs: how to deal with lovers of fragrant flowers

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Fragrant lilac marks the beginning of the warm season. In May, an active movement of various insects begins, which also like to get out into the sun. And on the lilac, bright green bugs and inconspicuous flies are often noticeable.

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Lilac pests
green beetles
Other lilac pests
How to deal with lilac pests
- Traditional recipes
Conclusion

Lilac pests

In early spring, many hungry animals wake up that love to feast on the young parts of the plant. If there are many types of pests that eat different parts:

kidney;
shoots;

trunk;
leaves;

flowers;
branches.

There are many types of pests, which are conventionally divided into types according to dietary preferences and lifestyle characteristics.

green beetles

It is the green beetles on the lilac that first of all attract attention. This is not the most numerous category, but the most noticeable. Especially when you consider that these pests love bright white flowers. There are the most common beetles.

This is a beetle, a member of the blister family. It has a long body with a bronze or blue sheen, dark paws and soft wings. The defense mechanism is the terrible smell between decaying carrion and rat excrement. One option for planting protection is manual collection. But because of the toxicity, it is necessary to carry out the procedure with gloves and then wash your hands well with soap and water. Before flowering, chemicals are used to protect the inflorescences.

Greenish bugs that are small in size. The body is narrow, elongated, covered with emerald scales. In the spring, the green pest elephant gets out of its hibernation places and actively eat young foliage. They prefer birch, olives, lilacs. An oblong beetle with a powerful proboscis feeds on various plants. To prevent infection, it is necessary to use trapping belts, shake off and manually collect in the spring. It is also necessary to trim and clean the trunks, remove diseased and damaged parts.

These are one of the greatest aesthetes among pest beetles. They are very fond of light flowers, which are very juicy. In some years, they can massively destroy flowers. Most members of the family are green in color. The larvae are not pests, they live in the trunk circle or rotten stumps. By themselves, adults are not dangerous to humans, they do not bite. In flight, they make loud noises, like bombers. And if you touch them, they fall, pretending to be dead.

Other lilac pests

There are species of beetles and insects that like to feed on different parts of the trunk and leaves.

Pest name	Description
leaf cutter bees	They are good pollinators, but can also be harmful. To build their nests, they use parts of cut leaves, which can harm a large number of green parts.
Sawflies	Some types of sawflies harm leaves. They make many holes in them, which significantly reduce the immunity of the tree.
Bark beetles	Several species of these beetles settle on the trunks and in the roots of lilacs. But they usually affect already damaged plants.

How to deal with lilac pests

The main rule for maintaining a healthy type of lilac is the good immunity of the shrub and the entire garden. Moreover, after the flowering of this type of delicacy, they will actively move to others.

Timely work in the garden.
Autumn cleaning of trunk circles, loosening.
Bronze on lilac.
Feeding plants to strengthen the immune system.
Manual collection of beetles that are inactive early in the morning or during rainy weather.
The use of chemicals on the bushes themselves and in the near-trunk circle.
The use of trapping belts as a prevention of the appearance of pests.
Planting in the near-stem circle of plants that repel beetles and other pests with their smell.

Traditional recipes

They are based on the effects of decoctions and infusions. They are safe for humans, cheap and easy to prepare. They help not only from various beetles, but also from moths, codling moths, moth caterpillars and other insects.

Sagebrush

You need 100 grams of dry grass per bucket, leave to insist for a day and strain. For spraying trees, dilute 1:1 with clean water.

Celandine

Dry grass needs 1 kg. Insist 30-36 hours in a bucket of water and strain. Spray plants with soap

Plant

Use potato or tomato. You need 2 kg of fresh grass or 1 kg of dry grass. These proportions are used in a bucket of water, insist 4 hours.

Conclusion

Bright and fragrant fragrant lilac flowers attract many different beetles. Often large oblong or rectangular green bugs are visible on the inflorescences. But it also happens that various bark beetles and sawflies settle on the shoots and trunk.

Beetles in lilacs