How to get rid of aphids on indoor plants

Aphids enter the house during airing, or with new plants bought in the market. Pest eggs can hide in the soil, which is used to transplant an indoor flower. The emergence and reproduction of the insect contribute antsliving on window sills.

Signs and threats

The leaves of a plant occupied by aphids are first deformed, and then fade and fall. Pests suck juice from indoor flowers, create favorable conditions for the propagation of the fungus. An adult female lays up to 25 eggs per day, so insects quickly spread to other indoor flowers.

Aphids are grouped at the bottom of the plant. If a colony of small bugs and eggs is found on the inside of the leaves, it’s time to start pest control. There are special chemicals that kill insects in 1-2 sprayings, but you can use old and safer methods.

initial stage
If you carefully monitor indoor flowers, you can see when the first pest appears. It is enough to crush the female, destroy the eggs that she managed to lay, and carefully examine the remaining plants.

Sometimes it is necessary to prune damaged sprouts to prevent aphid reproduction. But this procedure will not harm the flowers, because they are quickly restored. If time is lost and there are too many insects, it is necessary to resort to more radical methods.

How to get rid of aphids folk remedies

If there is a smoker in the house, you can ask for help from him:

• Cover the flowers with a plastic bag without holes.
• Blow a little smoke inside.
• Tie a bag tightly, and leave for several hours, or better - all night.
• In the morning it will remain to cut leaves with eggs, and wash the plant in the shower to remove the remains of dead insects.

Killer scent
You can prepare the first option from the shag, or buy a pack of cigarettes in the nearest store and cut out tobacco from them. It will take 40 g of dry ingredient, which is soaked in a liter of boiling water, and insisted for at least a day. The filtered solution is sprayed with flowers. It is advisable to use a spray gun, so that the liquid falls on the lower sheets and roots.

The second recipe consists of chopped garlic in an amount of 30 g and a liter of water. Soak the spice for a day, pour the filtered infusion into a container with a spray. Onion is used instead of garlic: 1 medium or 2 small ones per liter jar of water. Close with a nylon cover, hold for about 8 hours. The onion method eliminates not only aphids, but also spider mites.

Heavy artillery
Celandine destroys both warts and pests. In a liter jar, put fresh raw materials (300 g) or dry (100-150 g is enough). Top up with water, keep in the refrigerator for a day. Spray flowers affected by aphids or thrips.

Was there a few hot peppers in the house? Excellent, because with their help you can quickly and effectively destroy insects. Just cut the product into small pieces, add water, and to a slow fire. Boil for 50-60 minutes, insist another day, and pour into a bottle for spraying. In order not to burn the flowers, it is advised to dilute the concentrated infusion with water: 10-15 ml is enough for 1 liter. To enhance the effect, you can use household soap: grate a small piece, and dissolve the chips in pepper liquid.

An elementary solution from aphids
Sometimes it is enough to wash indoor flowers, affected by aphids, in the shower.

• Wear rubber gloves, arm yourself with a soft washcloth or rag.
• Buy a piece of laundry soap, dissolve in water.
• Moisten the leaves with the prepared product, if necessary - the buds, gently rub them with a washcloth.
• Rinse under clean water, being careful not to damage the plants.
• The flowers should dry in the sun, the procedure can be repeated several times until the aphid disappears.

Oranges versus Aphids
In winter, to combat bugs, you can use the peel of any citrus. For example, lemon or orange. Soak the dry ingredient in an amount of 100 g in 1 liter of water, keep in a warm place (can be near the battery) for 3 days. Strain, generously spray the plants.

Effective mixture
It will take onion husks, crushed garlic and tomato tops. Mix the components thoroughly, steam in boiling water. Spray flowers no more than 1 time in 7 days, because the tincture is concentrated. The procedure is repeated for three consecutive weeks until all the aphids disappear.

Spruce help
There will be applications for an old Christmas tree or pine tree lying on the balcony. Soak 50 g of needles, you can, together with sprigs, in 2 liters of liquid. The product should be infused for at least a week, after it is filtered, and diluted with water. Proportion 1 to 7. Conduct processing every 3-4 days.

Dandelions and Marigolds
The aphid does not tolerate the aroma of some plants. This weakness can be used to combat arrogant pests.

Option one: in a liter of hot water, steam 40 g of leaves and roots of dandelions. Wait 2 hours, strain. Spray the infusion on all indoor flowers, repeat in a day.

Second suggestion: put pots with marigolds next to infected plants, or prepare a spray mixture from dried buds and leaves. Pour a handful of raw materials with three glasses of water, wait 2 days. Add shavings from laundry soap, pour into a spray bottle.

Ash and mustard
In the stove you need to burn some firewood from any kind of tree. Do not mix with charcoal. Collect ash and dissolve in water. It will take 2 tablespoons of the workpiece per 1 liquid plus a spoonful of laundry soap. Stir thoroughly to dissolve the components. Spray with a brush because ash particles can get stuck in the spray gun.

You will need 10 g of powder from white mustard seeds. Take a liter of water for such an amount of dry ingredient. The solution should stand for 2 days, after it is filtered. In order not to damage the plants, it is advised to dilute the tincture with water. In advanced cases, it is allowed to use a concentrated agent.

Medicinal plants against aphids
Nettle (100 g per 1 liter), yarrow (80 g, boil in boiling water), dope flowers (crush with laundry soap, and only then dilute with water) can destroy aphids. Effective mustard: put in a liter jar 50 grams of plants, close the lid. Before use, combine with 3 tablespoons of soap shavings.

Tops and fish scales
If you are lucky enough to get the leaves and shoots of tomatoes, they should be chopped, and 300 g of the plant boiled in a liter of water. Before use, mix with laundry soap, and generously spray not only affected, but also healthy flowers. Tomato infusion is safe for pets and their owners.

Does the husband love fishing? You can take advantage of his addiction to prepare an effective decoction against aphids. Clean the fish, collect the scales, and dry it a little. Mix the workpiece with chopped onions, add water, leave for 5 hours. Per liter of liquid, 7 g of fish component and 15 g of vegetable.

Unpleasant neighborhood
They do not like harmful bugs and the aroma of geraniums. If you settle next to the infected flowers of this neighbor, the aphid will quickly leave its "home". Instead of geraniums, pelargonium is used.

If bugs attacked indoor plants in the winter garden, you can try to lure here ladybugs, wasps or lacewings. Some prefer to protect flowers from parasites using predatory entomophages. These include predatory gall midge, lysiflebus and aphidius.

How to get rid of aphids with chemicals

Often tinctures from garlic and other natural ingredients are powerless, or the aphid disappears for several weeks, and then returns again. In such situations, you can not do without insecticides.

They recommend trying Aktara or Confidor, Aktellik or Agravertin. Indoor flowers can be treated with Fitoverm, Iskra, Kinmiksom or Karate. Destroys aphids "Neoron", "Decis" and "Inta-vir."

Key recommendations:

1. Carefully read the instructions, and observe the indicated dosage. Insecticides for indoor plants are not volatile, but when working with them you need to wear gloves and a gauze bandage or mask.
2. During processing, children should be taken out of the room, pets should be closed in other rooms.
3. Spray affected and healthy plants, because you can skip several aphid eggs, and she will return again.
4. If the pests do not disappear after the 2nd use of the drug, you should buy another variety. Aphids quickly get used to insecticides, and become insensitive.
5. Before processing with a chemical agent, the flowers can be wiped with a rag dipped in soapy water.

Prevention is the best way to fight

Small greenish bugs are quite tenacious, therefore it is better to prevent their appearance in the house than to try to get rid of an unpleasant neighborhood.

1. New flowers should be quarantined for a week. It is advisable to treat them with water with the addition of flea shampoo or green potash soap, and only then relate to the rest of the plants.
2. Ants need to be destroyed. They grow and protect aphids. It is advised to cut off yellowed leaves and dried branches in time, do not forget to water green friends. The room where the plants are located should be warm.
3. The flower that the aphids have almost eaten should be thrown away without regret. After the destruction of the parasites, it is advised to replace the earth, thoroughly wash and disinfect the pots. It is better to buy soil in specialized stores.

If you monitor the sick and weakened flowers, regularly inspect the leaves and buds, you can destroy the aphids at the initial stage, until she has time to occupy and eat all the plants in the house. When the first signs of pest infection appear, it is advised to use alternative recipes, but do not abandon the idea of ​​insecticides if decoctions and infusions are powerless.

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