The first appearances of aphids on roses coincide with the period of appearance of stepsons on tomatoes and arrows on garlic. Therefore, both of these vegetables are an excellent raw material for the preparation of aphid remedies. Enough to fill the green mass with water and insist for 24 hours, then strain and the resulting infusion process roses.

Aphid sucks the juice from the roses, as a result, in the absence of care, the bushes affected by the aphids dry up. They are easy to recognize. They look like this:

How to deal with aphids on roses?

There is a chemical treatment with various chemicals, traditional methods of treatment from pests and mechanical cleaning of aphids. Each method has its own efficiency and technology of influencing pests, therefore, choosing what to splash on roses with aphids, the advantage should be given to those of the methods that have the least negative impact on the growth and development of roses.



Mechanical aphid disposal

The easiest and harmless way to remove aphids. It is recommended to use it at the first appearance of aphids. It is enough to put on gloves designed for working in the garden and crush the creeper with your fingers. Nothing disgusting and complicated in tacos   There is no cleaning. This is just a simple protection of roses from pests. Aphids are such a small insect that a handful of these pests in the palms cannot be distinguished from ordinary dirt and dust.

Aphids are easily washed off with a stream of water from a hose. She is physically so helpless that it is removed when watering. Here it is important to take care not to break the bushes. Washed aphid is usually eaten by garden insects, as it is the food of other insects (wasps, spiders, ladybirds).

Rinse aphids should be a few days in a row to wash off and newly emerging insects from eggs. Often can be seen on the bushes of roses ladybirds or birds. In no case should you drive them away, since they are the ones who eat the aphids while saving the plants from damage.

The most effective remedies for aphids include:

  • Potato infusion from tops.
      0.5 kg of chopped tops of boiling water pour boiling water (5 l), insist 48 hours, strain, add 50 g of soap. Thrice with a break of a week to spray rose bushes, affected by aphids.
  • Infusion of garlic cloves.
    Chopped peeled garlic cloves (about 100 g) pour cold water (3 l), insist 3 hours. Then strain the obtained product, add another 3 liters of water, mix evenly and process the roses. Spraying is carried out once a week for two months with a weekly interval.
  • Tobacco decoction.
      Tobacco (400 g) pour water (9 l). Boil for half an hour, insist 2 days, strain through cheesecloth. Dissolve 40 g of household soap (preferably green) in a liter of water, mix with the prepared tobacco broth. Spray the plants. Such processing should be carried out as needed.
  • Tomato-garlic (bulbous) infusion.
      Grind 400 g of tomato leaves and 300 g of garlic or onion through a meat grinder. Pour the mixture with three liters of water, insist 6-8 hours, strain, increase the volume of liquid to 10 liters, add 40 g of grated soap and spray roses. Repeat the procedure should be carried out only during the new appearance of pests.
  • Cope with aphids will help and husks of onions. It is necessary to fill it with hot water, insist day and process shrubs.

Mechanical disposal of aphids is good only with frequent inspections of plants and early detection of lesions.

How to get rid of aphids on roses with the help of folk remedies?

  Real gardeners have many tricks to deal with aphids on roses. With their help, you can carefully grow roses, protecting plants from pests. The most common way to control aphids is to protect roses with other plants, for example. The peculiar smell of marigolds, cased around rose bushes, repels aphids and protects roses from damage and.

Also popular in the fight against aphids enjoys a soap solution. They should handle the roses as soon as the first signs of infection appear. To prepare such a solution is very simple. You should put a bar of laundry soap in a bucket of water so that the soap dissolves and the water becomes soapy. For the fastest dissolution of soap in water, it is recommended to rub it on a grate. The prepared solution must be poured into the sprayer and the entire surface of the shrubs treated, paying special attention to the affected places.

If the rose bushes are thickly covered with aphids, it is necessary to thoroughly wash the leaves, branches, and flowering buds with a soapy solution. To simplify the work, carefully dip the plant in a bucket of soapy water. This method of treatment will save roses from pests without causing any harm. The only caveat is to take care when processing, so as not to break the stalks of the plant.

To get rid of aphids on roses with the help of folk remedies, it is best to use infusions from potato tops, young shoots of garlic, onion peels, tomato tops, and wormwood. For the preparation, it is enough to insist the raw material poured in with water for at least 24 hours, after which spray the roses.

Aphid chemicals

To get rid of aphids using chemicals should be only if folk remedies and mechanical cleaning did not give positive results. Before splashing onto roses with aphids, you need to purchase certified insecticides. It is advisable to do this in special garden stores.

Choosing a suitable remedy for aphids, it is better to give preference to drugs, which indicate that they are suitable for roses.

The best proven chemicals for aphids are:

  • Kinmiks;
  • "Decis";
  • "Spark";
  • "Intavir";
  • "Fitoverm";
  • Aktara.

Do not forget that the use of strong chemicals can harm both the pests themselves and the plants and other harmless inhabitants of the garden. It is best to give preference to more benign methods of dealing with aphids.

It is important for flower growers to observe the following rule: bypassing flowerbeds daily, inspect rose gardens, take care of plants as needed, regularly inspect them for damage by aphids.

Healthy intact roses, for which ongoing care and periodic measures against pests, are as follows:

Cons of chemical processing

It is not recommended to use chemicals on garden plots to combat aphids, since after treatment:

  • it becomes impossible to use rose petals for cosmetic and culinary purposes;
  • insecticides used are dangerous for fruits and vegetables growing nearby;
  • pests become addicted to drugs and become immune.

It is more expedient to use environmentally safe means for treating roses, changing and alternating them periodically.

Video: What to do against aphids on roses?


Nothing pleases the florist as beautiful and healthy plants. But, unfortunately, they also like other vegetation in the garden and in the garden, are susceptible to various pests and diseases. On flower culture colonies of green aphids often settle. A large number of insects leads not only to the loss of the normal healthy appearance of roses, but also to complete wilt. In order not to poison the plants with chemistry, getting rid of pests will allow the treatment of folk remedies.

Aphids appear for three main reasons:

  • The ecosystem at the dacha deteriorates from non-compliance with the basic rules of agricultural engineering. These include: untimely removal of weeds, non-compliance with the regime of irrigation and fertilizer, which lead to a general weakening of the plants.
  • Active biological environment in the garden. This means that the site is a large number of insects that eat aphid or its dark sticky substance, which it produces in the course of its life. These predatory insects include: ants, gold-eyed, ground beetles, ladybirds.

Interesting fact!

Ants specifically put aphids on the dacha, so that it feeds on the sap of plants, and they in turn fed them with a sticky substance.

  • Pest prevention is bad or not done at all.

Signs of aphids on roses


It is quite difficult to notice the insect on the flowers at once, their color makes it possible to mask well against the background of green stems and leaves. The first signs of a settlement begin to appear when pests begin to feed on sap of roses. First of all, aphid infects juicy young leaves. You can notice this by the following features:

  • sheet plate begins to lose its structure and shrink;
  • leaves curl and slightly lose their rich green color;
  • a sticky shiny silver or dark patina begins to appear on the leaf plates and buds;
  • colonies of aphids settle on the lower part of the leaves so that rain does not wet them, and they are less noticeable.

Destroying aphids by folk remedies


In order not to harm the roses and insects that pollinate them, it is recommended to use folk remedies. They are no less effective than the processing of chemicals. For spraying flower crops use:

Solution based on liquid soap and dish detergent

Type in a bucket of water, add 10 milliliters of dishwashing liquid or liquid soap. The resulting solution can be used for spraying and sponge rubbing. If there are more than three rose bushes on the site, then it is better to use a sprayer, and if there are several plants, then they can be processed manually.

Tobacco-based decoction

In a two-liter pot pour a liter of water, bring to a boil, pour out a glass of tobacco dust, stir. Boil the mixture for one hour over low heat. If the water evaporates, it must be added to the original state. After boiling, infuse the decoction for 24 hours in a dark place. Then, strain the tobacco infusion through cheesecloth. And already before use, dilute the decoction with 2 liters of water and add 5 grams of liquid soap. Pour the solution into a spray bottle and spray the roses. The frequency of treatments is one week.

Pollination with a mixture of tobacco dust and wood ash


Take in equal proportions tobacco dust and powdered wood ash, mix to a uniform connection of the components.

Application: wear rubber gloves, put a small amount of the dry mixture in your hand, sprinkle the plant with powder and the soil around the bushes. For 2-3 bush it is necessary to use a glass of the ash-tobacco mixture.

Solution based on ammonia

To prepare you need to take: 50 ml of ammonia, 10 liters of water and 20 grams of liquid soap. All components are mixed until a homogeneous consistency. Then, pour the solution into a spray or sprayer and actually process all green mass and buds. Spray need to be once a week, until the insects are completely dead.

Garlic infusion


Infusion prepared on the basis of 10 liters of warm water and 2 heads of garlic. Chop the cloves of vegetable, put it in a bucket with water. Leave to infuse for 24 hours. Strain before use. You can handle every 10 days.

Coniferous infusion

For the preparation of infusion need 2 liters of boiling water and 500 grams of pine needles. Pine needles in a bucket or other container, fill with boiling water and leave to infuse for 7 days. At the end of time, strain the infusion and dilute with 2 liters of clean water. Spray once a week.

Resistant varieties to aphid attacks


The resistance of roses to the attacks of aphids is manifested in the density of leaflets. The rougher they are, the harder it is for insects to bite through them, which means that the plant is safe. These are mainly hybrid varieties of flower crops:

  • "Karina" is a hybrid variety of tea rose, with pronounced pink petals. Leaves are dense, covered with a wax raid. Bushes low up to 1 meter. It blooms several times per season;
  • “Fae” is a polyanthus rose that has resistance to aphid attacks. Flowers of small size, collected in a brush;
  • "Leonardo da Vinci" is a blooming variety of hybrid roses. The leaves are thick and rough. Bushes grow tall and razlohie. Terry flowers, small size, 7-10 centimeters in diameter.

  1. Observe the constant care of roses. In time, remove the weeds from the flower bed, inspect the plant for the presence of pests.
  2. Planted near plants that emit strong odors that are unpleasant for aphids. These include: mustard, dill, marigold.
  3. Do not wait until the pests settle on flower bushes; make preventive spraying with folk remedies.
  4. In time, destroy the ant colonies, which bring aphids to the site.

How to get rid of aphids, these tiny creatures who love to suck the juice from the buds and leaves of your roses?

Do you know that there are 10 safe folk remedies for aphids that can save roses? But before discussing how to deal with the pest in the country, let's see who we are dealing with.

Aphids on roses how to fight folk remedies

CONTENT

  10 best folk remedies for aphids on roses.

  How to spray roses?
  Choosing the right neighbors roses in the country
  Fighting aphids: what does the enemy look like?
  Aphid is a very small pear-shaped creature that appears in large numbers at the tips of pink stems in May and early June.

Most of them are light green at this time, so they are almost imperceptible on the stem.

The pest can quickly multiply, suddenly appearing out of nowhere - as if a huge army made an invasion of your garden overnight.

Aphids are very clever. By grabbing the plant, it causes the leaves to curl inward to protect themselves from spraying. If you do not fight it, it attacks the delicate young shoots, the emerging leaves and even the sprigs of roses.

The pest loves juicy young shoots, therefore we protect, first of all, the shoots of this year.

Covered with aphids shoots, look weak, dry, leaves are covered with "rust". Public remedies for aphids on roses

Do you know that ants “care” about aphids?
Ants love the dark sticky substance that aphids release. Therefore, ants will diligently bring insects to your rose bushes and “graze” there. (It is very interesting to observe the work of ants, although you may not want to look too long and start saving your roses).

If you notice ants running up and down the stalks of roses, check for aphids and get rid of both before your flower gardens turn into “pastures”.

10 best folk remedies for aphids on roses.
  Just chill her.
  If the infection is small, you can shake the larvae on the ground with your gloved hands.

Do not neglect the simplest method - the use of water pressure. Directing a stream to the places of congestion, simply flush them to the ground. This treatment is carried out 2-3 times a month until the insects disappear completely.

Soap - an effective folk remedy
  A popular folk remedy is soap or any soap solution. The soap itself does not possess any disinfectant properties, the mechanism of action is as follows:

A soap remedy, like an alkaline solution, penetrates deep into any surface.
  Penetrating, alkaline "sticky" soap molecule envelops any small particles, as if separating them from the surface.
  The cohesion of particles with the surface decreases, and water easily washes away everything.
  How does it work with aphids? The soap washes away the wax film from the insect, it gets a sharp dehydration and dies.
Soap solution from aphids on roses:
  Household or soapy (200 g) rub on a grater and stir in a bucket of warm water (10 l). Instead of soap, you can take 5 tbsp. spoons of washing powder or dishwashing detergent.
  In fact, the proportion is simple, the soap solution should be like for washing.

Spray the solution with stems, buds and leaves of a rose. Repeat the treatment every week until the complete disappearance of pests. It is worth noting that with this tool you can sprinkle the plants or simply wipe them with a soapy sponge.

Combating aphids folk remedies: ammonia
  Soap is a good tool, but not the only, its main advantage is that it is always at hand. But soap works like any alkaline solution, such as ammonia.

Do processing ammonia alcohol  There is an additional advantage - getting into the soil, the drug acts as a nitrogen fertilizer, contributing to the violent flowering of roses. If you spend time spraying, then let the flowers get the maximum benefit.

Ammonia from aphids:
  mix ammonia 50 ml with a bucket (10 l) of soapy water.
The resulting solution is sprayed with leaves, stems and rosebuds. Perfect at the stage of the appearance of buds and blooming roses. We process 1 time in 2 weeks, and in order to prevent - monthly.

The best folk remedy for aphids on roses: ash.
  If you want to pamper roses, be sure to select the ash. The alkaline solution of ash is rich in “tasty” microelements, and your rosebush will surely become more beautiful.

Aphid Ash:
  250-350 g of wood ash, mix with a bucket of water, insist 15 hours. Before use, add 1 tbsp. spoon of soap detergent.
  IMPORTANT. Do not use the preparation of ammonia and ash in the second half of the summer - they enrich the soil with nitrogen and stimulate the active growth of roses, and it is time for them to prepare for winter.

Soda from aphids on roses.
  At the end of the summer you can take to fight soda. This should be food, and not soda ash, which can harm delicate shoots.

Why so many processing options? Maybe enough to fight the best one? The pest adapts to your spraying, therefore it is necessary to change the methods. With this solution you can sprinkle plants at the end of summer.

Aphid Soda:
  3 tbsp. spoons of soda on a bucket of soap solution.
  Video how to deal with aphids on roses.

  Small comments: the rose does not need to be processed in advance from aphids. All folk remedies act only on the insect.

5 herbal infusions for the treatment of rose bushes.
  Home remedies from plants with a pronounced aroma are well saved from aphids. When preparing these infusions, do not exceed the dosage, so as not to cause burns of young shoots.

aphid rose treatment

Recipes tinctures (use 2-3 times per season):

Tobacco. 0.5-1 glass of tobacco fall asleep in the bottle, and pour boiling water. Insist the solution for 24 hours, then filter through gauze.
  Pine. 1 kg of pine needles pour 4 liters of boiling water, insist week and filter. Dilute with water before use.
  Tomato / Potato. Potato tops or tomato finely chopped, to get half a bucket, pour boiling water to the top of the tank, and insist for 24 hours.
  Pepper. 1 kg of young, or 250-300 g of dry bitter pepper cut into pieces, put in a bucket of water, and insist 24 hours. Before use we dilute in proportions of 10 parts of water to 1 part of tincture.
  Garlic 180-200 g of garlic insist in a liter jar of boiling water for 5 days. 2 tbsp. spoons of the resulting solution is mixed with a bucket of water.
  For better results, you can add 1 tbsp to herbal tinctures. spoonful of soap shavings.

The best cure for aphids

How to spray roses?
  The fact that traditional methods apply natural ingredients does not mean that you should not be careful with them.

Wear a tight long-sleeved shirt and gloves to protect yourself from spikes. At the sprayer set the mode of wide spraying, rather than a narrow jet. Although a strong jet can knock some insects off the plant, you need to wet the pest. On roses, colonies are often collected on the buds and the underside of the leaves, so carefully spray these areas.

Spray the liquid from a distance of 30 cm, starting from the lowest point where you noticed the larvae and move up the rosebush.

Apply every 5-7 days until the bushes are clean. The best time to spray is a windless evening, so you will not harm the bees and other beneficial insects.

First, try a home remedy selectively on one branch so that the plant responds well to it.

struggle with aphids folk remedies liquid ammonia

Choosing the right neighbors roses in the country
  Plants that attract aphids.
  Some wild trees and shrubs intensively attract pests to themselves, so it is not recommended to plant them in the garden or near it.

Plants that attract aphids:


  viburnum;
  Linden;
  bird cherry;
  mulberry;
  What is bad company? Wild-growing trees wake up earlier, throwing out their delicate green shoots and flowers, and hungry insects rush to them from the whole neighborhood, starting their life cycle. At the time when your roses wake up, the pest has already created a large population and is moving to your flower garden and garden. And in this situation it is difficult to fight only with folk remedies.

In addition, there are popular flowers that also attract pests. Of course, compared to shrubs and trees, they do it on a much smaller scale.

Flowers that attract aphids:
  Petunia
  Nasturtium
  Begonia
  Cosmea
  Poppy
  Mallow
  aphid on roses than it is better to handle the Plants-allies against aphids
  Let's look for helpers in our struggle among the plants. You can plant fragrant spicy herbs and flowers that the pest doesn’t like on the plot next to the roses.

Aphid repellent plants:

mint, lavender, sage, thyme, dill, parsley and fennel.
  clover, lupine or canola.
  marigolds and daisies.
  How to destroy aphids? Beneficial insects
Unlike the ants that spread pest larvae throughout the garden, ladybugs help fight it. One such insect destroys in nature about 700 aphids. Attract a ladybird to the site tansy, dill or chamomile.

And if you have dandelions on the plot, they will attract gold-eyed, wasps, ground beetles, riders who eat the pest and its larvae.

We install poultry houses for sparrows, tits, kings and so on. The birds feed on these larvae and feed their chicks with them. Save the rose from aphids

Toads will save roses from aphids and ants


  The presence of toads in the garden is a wonderful method: aphid and ants will simply disappear. Toads love these insects and will hunt them. As long as there are toads in the garden, you can simply forget about fighting the pest.

To attract toads, place a bowl of clean water in the shade under the trees - they need to have a drink. This method is used in the largest rosaries of the world.

Changing methods of control keep insects from resistance to a specific toxin.

Alternate all the ways you know how to control pests of roses. If one method is used predominantly, the surviving individuals transfer their qualities to the new generation, creating a more sustainable population.
  Usually, after the first aphid invasion in May-June was successfully repulsed, natural predators such as ladybugs, wasps and toads help keep the number of insects in the garden under control.

What do you use folk remedies for aphids? Do you think that all purchased products are more harmful?

Even the best folk remedies can lead to dehydration of the rose leaf surface (they wash off the moisture-retaining waxy bloom from it as well as aphids) and can harm beneficial garden inhabitants, for example, bees. Therefore, treat only those areas where there is aphid, and sometimes it is more efficient to just wash the larvae with a sponge and soap than mindlessly spraying the whole rose bush.

In April, not only garden flowers wake up, but also the main enemy of plants - aphid. Green insects are crawling around the dacha in search of food. The victims of bugs are fuchsias, carnations and, of course, roses. The shrubs that are chosen by aphid weaken: the leaves become yellowish and twist, the buds are deformed and do not bloom. Pests will destroy folk remedies, and if they are powerless, roses will save chemicals.

Water and soap

Plants that have symptoms of aphid infestation are wiped with a damp sponge. It is moistened in a concentrated solution of household or antibacterial soap:

  1. 5–6 l of water is heated on the stove.
  2. 250–300 g of solid soap shavings are thrown into a hot liquid or 200 ml of liquid are poured.
  3. Cook the solution for 5 minutes, then cool and stir well.
  4. Wear thick rubber gloves on your hands. They will protect your palms and fingers from scratches and protect weakened roses from bacteria.
  5. Sponge soaked in soapy water, squeeze, and then wipe each leaf and the base of the bush.
  6. The surviving bugs are crushed with their hands, and then the treated roses are poured over the hose to flush away the residuals.

The flowers are bathed in the evening so that the moisture will evaporate until morning. Water droplets attract the sun, which leaves burns on the leaves.

Biological attack

Ants are one of the main causes of aphids. Black and red insects protect the pests and transfer them from one bush to another. To defeat the green bugs, you need to destroy the ants:

  1. Place double-sided tape or paper treated with non-drying glue around the rose bushes.
  2. Place the bait with poison, for example, minced with borax or honey with boric acid.
  3. Treat ant trails with unrefined sunflower oil, elderberry or wormwood tincture. Scatter dry or fresh peppermint sprigs.
  4. Saturate the ground around the bushes with essential oils. Suitable eucalyptus, mint and tea tree.
  5. Sprinkle the roots of the plant with cinnamon or lavender powder. You can treat the ground with semolina or millet.

When the aphid has no defenders left, it is necessary to draw ladybirds into the garden. Spotted insects like the smell of some plants:

  • dill;
  • marigolds;
  • tansy;
  • calendula;
  • clover;
  • mustard;
  • coriander;
  • yarrow;
  • clover.

It is not necessary to plant marigolds or tansy around roses. You can hang around the bushes a few sprigs of fragrant plants and wait until the ladybugs arrive on the smell. Some gardeners specially collect spotted insects and bring them to the site. If you plant at least one ladybird on a bush that was attacked by green bugs, in 2-3 days there will be nothing left from the pests.

Aphids are destroyed by small songbirds: tits, linnets, robins, sparrows and blood beetles. Birds hunters lure feeders with bread crumbs and grain, drinkers with water and nesting boxes.

Titmies and sparrows will clean the roses from aphids and other harmful bugs in a matter of days. The way has a minus, because birds, unlike the ladybirds, eat all insects. Both bad and useful.

Folk remedies

Natural decoctions and infusions destroy aphid colonies in 1–1.5 weeks. They are safe, do not harm pets and birds.

Sagebrush
  Yellowed roses are sprayed with a decoction of wormwood. Prepare a deterrent from 2 kg of raw or 700 g of dry raw materials. Grass is poured over 10 liters of water, boiled for 15 minutes, infused for 4–5 hours. Broth does not need to be diluted. It is filtered and immediately poured into a bottle with a spray. Liberally sprayed leaves, buds and roots of bushes. The treatment is repeated after 7 days. Aphids disappear after the second or third procedure.

Beetles against bugs
  Voracious insects scares the smell of tomatoes. The leaves or tops of tomatoes are soaked in water. On a ten-liter bucket of liquid take 4–5 kg of fresh raw materials. Put the pot with the workpiece on medium heat, boil for 15 minutes. When the solution has cooled, it is poured into a bottle and sprayed with roses. In a decoction of tomatoes moisten a soft sponge and wipe the leaves of flowers, soak the buds.

In the potato tops contain a toxic substance - corned beef. It destroys aphids and protects flowers from other insects. In a bucket or barrel mix 1.5 kg of potato tops and 11 liters of cold water. Capacity cover, leave the sun. Filter in 4 hours, sprayed the bushes and the ground around them.

Ash and milk
  Scare away green pests wood ash. It will take 300 grams of ash and 1 liter of warm water. The ingredients are stirred and infused for several hours. When the ash settles to the bottom, the solution is carefully poured and diluted with 5 liters of water. The result is a concentrated product, which is sprayed with buds and rubbed leaves.

Mix 1 l of this milk with 10 l of distilled water. Fill the solution with 20 drops of iodine. Harvesting destroys aphids and provides roses with nutrients, helps the flowers to recover.

Onions and Tobacco
  The weakened bushes, on which a fungus or mold appeared because of the aphids, are sprayed with solutions containing volatile production. Substances present in onions and garlic. Products made from such products have a persistent and rather unpleasant odor that repels insects.

Several peeled onions or garlic heads are crushed and rubbed with laundry soap. Suitable liquid antibacterial or tar. Take 10 g of each ingredient, pour 1 l of water and insist until the soap dissolves. Strain the onion liquid through cheesecloth, spray the roses. It is desirable to process and healthy bushes that the aphid did not have time to capture.

The ground around insect-infested flowers is sprinkled with tobacco dust. Bugs do not like the smell of the product, so they leave the garden. Tobacco is used to prepare a solution:

  1. Pour 1.5 kg of dust 10 liters of water.
  2. Heat to 80 degrees, but make sure the liquid does not boil.
  3. The solution is infused overnight, and in the morning they filter and abundantly moisten the roses with concentrated liquid.

Delicate varieties of plants are sprayed with an onion peel. Pour 2–3 kg of billet into the pan, pour 5 liters of water. Boil until liquid turns reddish. Strain the broth to cool, mix with 2 spoons of liquid soap. Spray the roses once a week.

Kerosene and Lemonade
  Coca-Cola removes rust from iron and flowers from aphids. Pour 3 tablespoons of liquid soap into a soda bottle, shake it several times, and when the foam settles, attach a spray bottle and process the bushes. Instead of Coca-Cola use cheap lemonade.

Sprayed with liquid ammonia. Mix 60 ml of product with a liter of water. Aphids after treatment disappears for 1-1.5 weeks, then you need to repeat the procedure. Pests repels vodka and ethyl alcohol. Alcohol is diluted with water in a ratio of 1 to 3.

Destroys aphid kerosene emulsion. The composition of the repelling solution includes:

  • grated laundry soap - 100 g;
  • boiled water - 100 ml;
  • kerosene - 200 ml.

Stir the billet to dissolve the soap. Add 10 liters of warm water. Roses are sprayed with kerosene emulsion once a week, preferably in the evening. After 24 hours, the bushes are plentifully watered with ordinary water, which should wash off the remaining solution from the sheets and buds.

Chemicals

If the aphids are too much, and folk remedies do not help, it is advised to buy insecticides. Green bugs do well with pyrethroids:

  • Decis;
  • Cypermethrin;
  • Hostavik;
  • Karate;

Gardeners celebrate the drug Fitoverm and Bi-58. Helps Alatar, Bankol, Aktar, Konfidor Topaz.

For the prevention of aphids, the roots and the ground around them are poured over with a solution of urea: 500 g of substance for 10 liters of water. Do it in early spring before the first leaves. A week later, the soil is sprayed with blue vitriol: 200 g of product per 10 liters of liquid.

If there are few roses, each shrub is treated with ordinary Dichlorvos, a plastic bag is put on top. Leave the plastic cover for 30 minutes. Adults die. Aphid larvae can hide on the inside of the leaf. They are washed off with water or crushed by hands.

Important: A person working with insecticides must wear rubber gloves, long-sleeved clothing and a respirator.

Aphid is very tenacious and quickly gets used to synthetic and natural preparations. They recommend constantly changing means and solutions so that insects do not have time to adapt. It is necessary to lure into the garden of ladybirds and birds, to fight with black and red ants. Thanks to the prevention and timely treatment of roses, they remain healthy and beautiful, delight gardeners with luxurious buds and pleasant aroma.

Video: how to destroy aphids on roses

How to get rid of aphids, these tiny creatures who love to suck the juice from the buds and leaves of your roses? Do you know that there are 10 safe folk remedies for aphids that can save roses? But before discussing how to deal with the pest in the country, let's see who we are dealing with.

Fighting aphids: what does the enemy look like?

Aphid is a very small pear-shaped creature that appears in large numbers at the tips of pink stems in May and early June. Most of them are light green at this time, so they are almost imperceptible on the stem. The pest can quickly multiply, suddenly appearing out of nowhere - as if a huge army made an invasion of your garden overnight.

Aphids are very clever. By grabbing the plant, it causes the leaves to curl inward to protect themselves from spraying. If you do not fight it, it attacks the delicate young shoots, the emerging leaves and even the sprigs of roses. The pest loves juicy young shoots, therefore we protect, first of all, the shoots of this year. Covered with aphids shoots, look weak, dry, leaves are covered with "rust".

Do you know that ants “care” about aphids?

Ants love the dark sticky substance that aphids release. Therefore, ants will diligently bring insects to your rose bushes and “graze” there. (It is very interesting to observe the work of ants, although you may not want to look too long and start saving your roses).

If you notice ants running up and down the stalks of roses, check for aphids and get rid of both before your flower gardens turn into “pastures”.


10 best folk remedies for aphids on roses.

Just chill her.

If the infection is small, you can shake the larvae on the ground with your gloved hands. Do not neglect the simplest method - the use of water pressure. Directing a stream to the places of congestion, simply flush them to the ground. This treatment is carried out 2-3 times a month until the insects disappear completely.

Soap - an effective folk remedy

A popular folk remedy is soap or any soap solution. The soap itself does not possess any disinfectant properties, the mechanism of action is as follows:

  1. A soap remedy, like an alkaline solution, penetrates deep into any surface.
  2. Penetrating, alkaline "sticky" soap molecule envelops any small particles, as if separating them from the surface.
  3. The cohesion of particles with the surface decreases, and water easily washes away everything.
  4. How does it work with aphids? The soap washes away the wax film from the insect, it gets a sharp dehydration and dies.

Soap solution from aphids on roses:
Household or soapy (200 g) rub on a grater and stir in a bucket of warm water (10 l). Instead of soap, you can take 5 tbsp. spoons of washing powder or dishwashing detergent.

In fact, the proportion is simple, the soap solution should be like for washing. Spray the solution with stems, buds and leaves of a rose. Repeat the treatment every week until the complete disappearance of pests. It is worth noting that with this tool you can sprinkle the plants or simply wipe them with a soapy sponge.

Combating aphids folk remedies: ammonia

Soap is a good tool, but not the only, its main advantage is that it is always at hand. But soap works like any alkaline solution, such as ammonia. Treatment with liquid ammonia has an additional advantage - getting into the soil, the drug acts as a nitrogen fertilizer, contributing to the violent flowering of roses. If you spend time spraying, then let the flowers get the maximum benefit.

Ammonia from aphids:
mix ammonia 50 ml with a bucket (10 l) of soapy water.

The resulting solution is sprayed with leaves, stems and rosebuds. Perfect at the stage of the appearance of buds and blooming roses. We process 1 time in 2 weeks.

The best folk remedy for aphids on roses: ash.

If you want to pamper roses, be sure to select the ash. The alkaline solution of ash is rich in “tasty” microelements, and your rosebush will surely become more beautiful.

Aphid Ash:
250-350 g of wood ash, mix with a bucket of water, insist 15 hours. Before use, add 1 tbsp. spoon of soap detergent.

IMPORTANT. Do not use the preparation of ammonia and ash in the second half of the summer - they enrich the soil with nitrogen and stimulate the active growth of roses, and it is time for them to prepare for winter.

Soda from aphids on roses.

At the end of the summer you can take to fight soda. This should be food, and not soda ash, which can harm delicate shoots. Why so many processing options? Maybe enough to fight the best one? The pest adapts to your spraying, therefore it is necessary to change the methods. With this solution you can sprinkle plants at the end of summer.

Aphid Soda:
3 tbsp. spoons of soda on a bucket of soap solution.

Video how to deal with aphids on roses.

Small comments: the rose does not need to be processed in advance from aphids. All folk remedies act only on the insect.

5 herbal infusions for the treatment of rose bushes.

Home remedies from plants with a pronounced aroma are well saved from aphids. When preparing these infusions, do not exceed the dosage, so as not to cause burns of young shoots.

Recipes tinctures (use 2-3 times per season):

  • Tobacco.  0.5-1 glass of tobacco fall asleep in the bottle, and pour boiling water. Insist the solution for 24 hours, then filter through gauze.
  • Pine. 1 kg of pine needles pour 4 liters of boiling water, insist week and filter. Dilute with water before use.
  • Tomato / Potato. Potato tops or tomato finely chopped, to get half a bucket, pour boiling water to the top of the tank, and insist for 24 hours.
  • Pepper. 1 kg of young, or 250-300 g of dry bitter pepper cut into pieces, put in a bucket of water, and insist 24 hours. Before use we dilute in proportions of 10 parts of water to 1 part of tincture.
  • Garlic. 180-200 g of garlic insist in a liter jar of boiling water for 5 days. 2 tbsp. spoons of the resulting solution is mixed with a bucket of water.

For better results, you can add 1 tbsp to herbal tinctures. spoonful of soap shavings.

How to spray roses?

The fact that traditional methods apply natural ingredients does not mean that you should not be careful with them.

Wear a tight long-sleeved shirt and gloves to protect yourself from spikes. At the sprayer set the mode of wide spraying, rather than a narrow jet. Although a strong jet can knock some insects off the plant, you need to wet the pest. On roses, colonies are often collected on the buds and the underside of the leaves, so carefully spray these areas.

Spray the liquid from a distance of 30 cm, starting from the lowest point where you noticed the larvae and move up the rosebush. Apply every 5-7 days until the bushes are clean. The best time to spray is a windless evening, so you will not harm the bees and other beneficial insects.

First, try a home remedy selectively on one branch so that the plant responds well to it.

Choosing the right neighbors roses in the country

Plants that attract aphids.

Some wild trees and shrubs intensively attract pests to themselves, so it is not recommended to plant them in the garden or near it.

Plants that attract aphids:

  • viburnum;
  • linden;
  • bird cherry;
  • mulberry;

What is bad company? Wild-growing trees wake up earlier, throwing out their delicate green shoots and flowers, and hungry insects rush to them from the whole neighborhood, starting their life cycle. At the time when your roses wake up, the pest has already created a large population and is moving to your flower garden and garden. And in this situation it is difficult to fight only with folk remedies.

In addition, there are popular flowers that also attract pests. Of course, compared to shrubs and trees, they do it on a much smaller scale.

Flowers that attract aphids:

  • Petunia
  • Nasturtium
  • Begonia
  • Cosmea
  • Mallow


  Allied plants against aphids

Let's look for helpers in our struggle among the plants. You can plant fragrant spicy herbs and flowers that the pest doesn’t like on the plot next to the roses.

Aphid repellent plants:

  • mint, lavender, sage, thyme, dill, parsley and fennel
  • marigolds and daisies.

Plants that distract me from self:

  • clover, lupine or canola.

How to destroy aphids? Beneficial insects

Unlike the ants that spread pest larvae throughout the garden, ladybugs help fight it. One such insect destroys in nature about 700 aphids. Attract a ladybird to the site tansy, dill or chamomile.

And if you have dandelions on the plot, they will attract gold-eyed, wasps, ground beetles, riders who eat the pest and its larvae.

We install poultry houses for sparrows, tits, kings and so on. The birds feed on these larvae, and also feed their chicks with them.

Toads will save roses from aphids and ants

The presence of toads in the garden is a wonderful method: aphid and ants will simply disappear. Toads love these insects and will hunt them. As long as there are toads in the garden, you can simply forget about fighting the pest.

To attract toads, place a bowl of clean water in the shade under the trees - they need to have a drink. This method is used in the largest rosaries of the world.

Changing methods of control keep insects from resistance to a specific toxin. Alternate all the ways you know how to control pests of roses. If one method is used predominantly, the surviving individuals transfer their qualities to the new generation, creating a more sustainable population.

Usually, after the first aphid invasion in May-June was successfully repulsed, natural predators such as ladybugs, wasps and toads help keep the number of insects in the garden under control.

What do you use folk remedies for aphids? Do you think that all purchased products are more harmful?

Even the best folk remedies can lead to dehydration of the rose leaf surface (they wash off the moisture-retaining waxy bloom from it as well as aphids) and can harm beneficial garden inhabitants, for example, bees. Therefore, treat only those areas where there is aphid, and sometimes it is more efficient to just wash the larvae with a sponge and soap than mindlessly spraying the whole rose bush.