The animal looks at first glance like a harmless Moth. But he is dangerous and kills Bavaria’s most popular garden plant abound. It spreads rapidly.
Dachau – “Running a citizen of us, who want to know what you can do about it”, explains Siegfried Lex, County Advisor for garden culture and country care in the Landratsamt Dachau. Especially bad is the Problem in the city of Dachau and in Schwabhausen, Hebertshausen and Haimhausen was. “We have a large, strong attack,” said Lex.
The book tree borer lays its eggs on the underside of the leaf of paper. The caterpillars hatch dies and as soon as the temperatures are about seven degrees, they begin to eat the leaves to the paper at some point. In a season of several beetle generations slip. “In China, there are up to eight generations, here in Europe, probably two or three,” explains Lex. He advises that is why all gardeners, to examine your book often and accurately: “the caterpillar of The book tree on the igniter is green, and has longitudinal stripes and dots, and a shiny, black head shield.” Before pupation, they will be around five centimetres long.
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“The infestation happens from the bottom up,” explains Lex. “The larvae feed first in the Inner, and behind the leaves.” If you notice the pest very quickly, could you try the groomers to pick up and kill. “But that’s a lot of effort,” says Lex. “On a length of one Meter, about 100 larvae can be in the book.” Otherwise, it is very hard to be the pest Lord.
This experience is also the gardener of the city of Dachau to make. “The book tree borer has now become a real Problem,” says Moritz, Reinhold from the city building Department. “To fight him is a permanent task, we are actually powerless.” The city is trying, with Bio-insecticides against the Moth to tackle. “So far, the success was rather moderate,” said Reinhold.
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Siegfried Lex refers to insecticides on plant-based: “But it must only be used exactly according to the use requirement,” he says. With cut Bushings, it was also difficult to wet the leaves sufficient. Lex is also carrying out a trial, whether it helps to sprinkle the plants with slaked lime. “But I can’t say whether it will bring something,” he explains.
Otherwise, only damage limitation, as many Gartlern. Here Siegfried Lex points out that free-growing, diseased paper should not be removed completely. “It may be that he casts out again,” he says. “And at the time of types of attacks anyway protection, because birds can nest in the bushes.”
Otherwise, dead green waste for free at the green waste collection of the recycling center could be delivered. The waste economy, but asks to make sure that it is good and a bag Packed is covered, so that on the way nothing is lost, and so additional trees could be infested.
Also on the compost heap, you should not throw the Material Because composting in your own garden, Lex, according to the not-so-high temperatures, could survive the caterpillars and continue to multiply. In the compost bin, however, you can dispose of the green stuff, since the local Material is first fermented in a fermentation plant at very high temperatures, and composted afterwards, earth. Also in the case of a disposal through the recycling center, the Material is chopped small initially and then at a specialist company composted. “Temperatures above 70 degrees, which is not survival of the caterpillars to emerge,” says waste management. The borer could be safely rendered harmless.
for years, another pest from Asia, terrorized the Munich area. For him no tree stands in the East of Munich, some more.
