How to get rid of the bark beetle: tips for gardeners

Summer residents constantly have to deal with various pests on the site, which claim to harvest in the garden and vegetable garden. But there are even more terrible insects capable of not only destroy the whole garden
, but also encroach on a person’s house. It’s about the bark beetle.

The name of the beetle speaks for itself. These small insects of the weevil family reach sizes of no more than 1-1.5 cm. But they do disproportionately much harm. Bark beetle in the garden is very dangerous
, because it spoils both young and adult trees, as well as wooden buildings. It lives under the bark, gnawing patterned holes and passages inside the tree, where the females lay their eggs. The larvae that emerged from them feed on the juices and tissues of the tree, continuing to destroy it from the inside.

How to deal with bark beetle?
Read about ways to prevent and destroy the beetle in our article. Folk remedies protect and treat cuts, cuts, cracks, frost holes and other damage on trees through which bark beetles can get inside.

How to get rid of the bark beetle: life hacks

• Take it as a rule check trees regularly
  in the garden, so as not to miss the very beginning of a bark beetle infection.
• If you found on the bark small rounded holes
  – the places where the beetles penetrate, you need to clean and cut off part of the bark in order to understand how deep the bark beetle has penetrated into the tree. And then get to his moves and larvae and clean them out.
  Bark beetle traces in the garden / Photo: pixabay

• You can also destroy the bark beetle metal wire
  letting her go through the passages that the beetle gnawed through in the tree.
• Then the affected tree should be treated protective insecticidal preparations
  which penetrate the wood and poison the bark beetle.
• After you have cleaned the wound, you need to decontaminate it and cover with garden pitch
  . Melt 600 g of paraffin, add 300 g of crushed rosin, bring the mixture to a boil, add 200 g of vegetable oil and boil the composition for 10 minutes.
  Treat trees with garden pitch / Photo: pinterest

• In order to prevent bark beetle, it is also recommended to regularly spray trees with insecticides
  because after a while the preparations applied to the bark of the tree lose their strength.
• However, if there are a lot of holes on the tree, while the trunk is strewn with drill flour below, and the bark falls off in pieces, it is better cut down and burn the infected tree
  so that bark beetles do not spread throughout the garden.
• To protect trees from bark beetles, you can coat the trunks and bases of skeletal branches. a mixture of clay with humus
  .
• Try your best attract birds to the garden
  , especially woodpeckers, which help to destroy pests. Hang up feeders, feed the birds in winter.
  Attract woodpeckers to the garden / Photo: pixabay

• Another effective pest control method is trap logs
  . At the beginning of the growing season, it is necessary to spread the parts of the trunk sawn into chocks throughout the area. During the summer they are inhabited by bark beetles, and in autumn these pieces and logs are burned along with all the beetles, eggs, cocoons and larvae.
  Make traps in the garden / Photo: pinterest

• It is also important to carry out regular hygiene and sanitary measures in the garden
  : pruning frostbite, diseased and dry branches in which bark beetles can settle, cleaning the bark, disinfecting and sealing wounds and frost holes, whitewashing boles and bases of skeletal branches.
• At the end of the season it is also important to work in the garden
  : collect and burn plant residues after leaf fall, dig up the soil in the near-stem circles, mulch the root circle.

Earlier, we shared country tricks on how to save tomatoes from pests. They also published tips on how to use soap in the garden.