These pests attack your bamboo

• Aphids Aphidoidea
• Scale insects
• Mealybugs and mealybugs

Why aphids and ants attack bamboo together

With their sweet excrement, aphids attract ants, who like to eat them. To do this, the ants protect the aphids and breed them zealously. To do this, they transport the sucking insects to the bamboo leaves and stalks that have not yet been infested.

With their proboscis, aphids specifically tap into the pathways of the plants. This deforms the leaves and causes discoloration. In extreme cases, parts of the Dried up bamboo and die. Sooty mildew fungi usually settle on the honeydew that is excreted. They cover the leaves with a black coating. It is advisable to destroy the bambooto protect other plants from the virus attack.

Where scale insects hide

Scale insects are bare with eye not recognizable. Because they hide under their brown protective shield. They mainly attack the bamboo stalks and suck out the sap. the

robust bamboo plants only react visibly when so much sap has been sucked out that parts of the plant die off.

Conventional pesticides do not reach scale insects hidden under their protective shield. Only remedies like pesticide sticks that are in the Earth are plugged and distribute their active ingredient over the roots, also work where no spray can get there. Dried up signs indicate dead scale insects, but give way to those who are still alive.

Mealybugs and mealybugs prefer Fargesia

Like all bamboo lice and aphids, mealybugs and mealybugs suck the sap from bamboo plants. What sticky sap residues on leaves and stalks prove. They also form whitish cotton balls that can be found on the leaf stalk. The white, light brown patterned lice under the straw sheaths can be found especially on Fargesia.

Regular preventive measures help Bamboo pests and Bamboo diseases to avoid. One of the most permanently effective and natural lice killers is the establishment of useful opponents in the Bamboo garden how:

• Ladybug
• Catchy tunes
• Hoverflies
• Lacewing
• Parasitic wasps

Also important: regularly shower the bamboo with a hard water jet on the underside of the leaves and thereby wash away the vermin.

Tips & Tricks

Organic lice killer recipe - fill the bucket with horsetail or nettles, cover with water and let it steep. The biological lice killer is ready after a day. With a Plant sprayer Spread undiluted on the bamboo. Repeat the application several times.