His name sounds beautiful and unusual - Palomena prasina, but, despite the unusual name of this name, this is a well-known insect - the tree bug. It is familiar to every Russian, because it is widespread on the territory of our country almost everywhere, preferring to settle near water bodies.
But the memories of meeting him are not always pleasing. What kid hasn't eaten freshly picked raspberries? Many bugs from the Shchitnik family are also lovers of this berry. Perhaps the one who has seen, and maybe even accidentally tasted a green bug will never forget the annoyance, disappointment, the characteristic unpleasant odor and bitterness in the mouth.
But it happens that people go to the raspberry patch not for fruits, but for bedbugs. From time immemorial, a recipe for getting rid of drunkenness has come down to us - vodka infused with green bugs.
What does a woody buzzard look like?
The green arboreal bush bug (Palomena prasina) is a true bunch of bunch. This family unites bedbugs with a characteristic body structure. If you look at such an insect from above, you can see a wide scutellum and pronotum on its back. These are two distinct parts. It is thanks to the shield that this family got its name - the scutellids.
Body size up to 3.5 mm. The shape of the body is oval, elongated. The oral apparatus has the form of a piercing-sucking proboscis. It is intended for feeding with vegetable juices. There are two sensory antennae on the head for catching odors.
Body coloration varies with the season. In spring and summer, when there is a lot of greenery around, the bug has a bright green color, and webbed brown wings are visible only at the end of its body. With the onset of autumn, when the leaves change color, the woody buzzard also changes its color to match the environment. The wood bug becomes dark brown in color.
Did you know? The arboreal shield bug rarely uses its wings. Flying for a bug turns into a large expenditure of energy. Since it is difficult for the membranous wings to lift a rather heavy body into the air. The arboreal green bug flies only if there is readily available food ahead of it.
Woodbug shit bug. Summer coloring
The tree bug shitnikov that has changed its summer color to autumn
Protecting the site from guests
Everyone knows that, instead of removing insects, it is easier to prevent their appearance. Tree bugs do not like strong odors. Therefore, it is useful to plant such plants as wormwood, tansy, mustard around the perimeter of the site. The cimicifuga works most effectively. Cover all windows with special screens.
Think carefully about the landing pattern. For example, it is better not to plant raspberry bushes near the house, especially under the windows. Otherwise, residents run the risk of frequently discovering intruders. Therefore, it is better to plant raspberries along the fence. And it doesn't hurt to coat windows and doors with a solution of water and onion husks, since the pungent smell will scare off bedbugs.
You can also plant herbs such as basil or oregano.
Lifestyle
Bed bugs lay eggs twice during the summer season. One clutch contains about 100 eggs. The oviposition is light green in color, located on the underside of the leaves. The eggs have a peculiar lid, which is held on special teeth.This device helps mature larvae to easily get out of the eggs. The eggs ripen up to a month. But under favorable conditions, this time is reduced to one week.
The hatched larvae are similar to the adults except for their small size and lack of wings. Before becoming an adult insect, they survive 15 molts. If the larva cannot throw off the shell, which has become small for it, it dies. Hibernates hibernate in fallen leaves. The bug spends all winter in a kind of stupor (suspended animation), fleeing from lack of heat and lack of food. With the onset of the warm season, they come out of hibernation and begin to eat heavily. If there is not enough food in their natural habitats, they move to orchards, vegetable gardens, agricultural land.
The tree bug shitnikov and its oviposition
Arboreal Green Buckworm Larva
Dangerous species and their prey:
- "Harmful turtle" - one of the most dangerous for plants representatives of the species, feeding on young shoots of cereals. Despite the "slow" name, the turtle can fly long distances and cause significant damage to seedlings.
- The dwarf shrimp and its larvae, extracting the juice necessary for nutrition, pierce the fruits, stems and leaves, leaving light specks at the site of the bite. The result of the subversive activity of bedbugs is disease and the gradual death of the plant. Cereals that have just begun to grow and develop, if they do not die immediately, give a depleted crop. Wheat and rye fields especially suffer from the harmful activity.
- Cruciferous bugs of blue and green colors with metallic reflections, feeding on the juice of vegetable crops, weaken the plant, which will soon die.
- Berry woodworm is the most famous bug in the territory of the Russian Federation. It was he who became widely known for the unpleasant odor that the insect emits when it is frightened. He eats berries, especially raspberries. Sucking the juice from foliage and fruits, it harms the full growth of the crop.
Harmfulness of the green tree bushbug
The woody shit bug has a detrimental effect on the plants in which it settles. Small dark brown specks indicate that the bug fed on the plant. But the harmfulness of the bug will not be so noticeable to large trees and shrubs.
Often tree bugs leave the forest and move to nearby garden plots, where they feed heavily. An invasion of large numbers of such insects can severely damage the crop. The bug especially loves to eat raspberries. It leaves behind a trail of scent glands on the berries, which spoils the taste of the berries.
Sometimes, with a lack of food, the bug moves to agricultural crops (cereals) and feeds on them.
Very often, tree bush bucks end up in apartments. They get there through open windows, vents, doors. The mouth apparatus of the bug bug is not able to bite through human skin, so you should not be afraid of these insects.
Feedback:
When we had forest fires in our region, these shit bugs moved to apartments. At first I was scared when I saw so many insects in the house, then I read on the Internet that they do not harm a person. I had to collect them with a vacuum cleaner every day and throw them out the window. The most unpleasant thing is the smell of bedbugs, which spreads around the apartment if you accidentally crush one! Then the bugs disappeared completely with the onset of cold weather.
Valeria, Khabarovsk
What harm does the little shield bearer do?
There is a misconception that, in general, bedbugs are blood-sucking parasites that choose people as their prey. There are only a few species in the large family of bugs that feed on the fluids of small animals, which sometimes "make mistakes" and choose real human blood as food.
Of course, a bug bite is an unpleasant phenomenon, but in fact, bed bugs are considered pests because of the negative consequences that they cause to crops.
Do I need to deal with the tree shit bug?
You should not fight with tree shit bugs if not necessary. If these insects are in your apartment, do not panic and poison them with chemical insecticides, as you can harm your health. Better to just let the bugs out into the street.
It is worth fighting bedbugs only if they abundantly populate your garden or vegetable garden. In this case, several treatments with a special insecticide will be enough. To combat bedbugs, contact type pesticides are suitable.
Berry bug
Description:
- An adult bug is quite large, up to 10 millimeters;
- Transverse yellow stripes on antennae and sides;
- In summer it is reddish-brown or gray, by autumn it is brown;
- Found on berry crops. Prefers raspberries, currants and gooseberries.
Its presence can be recognized by brown spots on the leaves, the berries dry up and smell unpleasant.
Berry duckweed (bug):
- As a preventive measure - destroy weeds, dig up the soil next to berry crops;
- Spraying with a decoction of alder bark and fresh leaves (2 kilograms per bucket of water). Ingredients are poured with water in the evening and left to infuse overnight. In the morning, boil for 60 minutes and cool.
Fight against wood buzzard without chemical pesticides
If, all the same, the shield bugs attacked your site, and you want to get rid of them, you can apply a number of effective folk remedies. All of them are natural and do not pose a danger to humans and the environment.
Bedbugs are scared off by tincture of onion peel, wormwood, chamomile, mustard solution. These funds can be mixed, combined, alternated. Treat plants with water infusion using a special sprayer. Repeat the processing several times.
Collecting bugs from plants by hand is also effective. These insects are not agile enough to escape quickly.
In addition, bedbugs are frightened off by the smell of spicy greens, such as cumin, regan, basil, etc. An ornamental plant of cimicifuga (aka black cohosh) planted on the site will be a natural barrier against these insects.
Feedback:
Since time immemorial, a cimicifuga has been growing on my site, and my grandmother also planted it. Bedbugs always pass us by. They eat from neighbors, but they don't come to us
Zinaida, Stavropol
Black cohosh is a natural insecticide that repels bedbugs
Bedbug bites
Parasites feed on blood: they attack the owners of apartments and houses, more often at night. If mosquitoes are easy to recognize by a nasty squeak, then bugs sneak up on victims unnoticed.
After piercing the skin, the insect is saturated, it becomes slow. A parasite bite is not only unpleasant, but also very dangerous: bugs often carry bacteria and fungi, many of which provoke the development of serious diseases.
How to recognize and how to treat
Signs of a bite:
- red spots ("tracks") are located on the body, at a distance of several centimeters from each other;
- parasites do not feed every day. For this reason, bites appear periodically, about once every 7-10 days;
- blood is noticeable in the central part of the bite: a dangerous insect has rather powerful jaws;
- red spots constantly itch, only pharmaceutical preparations often help to get rid of an unpleasant symptom;
- with increased sensitivity of the body, an allergic reaction develops;
- bites appear in the room where the person usually sleeps. If the owner decided to move the sleeping place to another room, it will take some time before the insects find him and attack again.
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The bite site must be lubricated with one of the following means:
- plantain or aloe juice;
- tincture of St. John's wort;
- vinegar;
- alcohol;
- soda solution;
- the drug Fenistil-gel.
To prevent allergies, you will have to drink an antihistamine tablet. Suprastin, Tsetrin, Tavegil, Diazolin will do. Activated carbon will not interfere with the collection and elimination of toxins.
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