![]() ![]() For thrips – blue cards are used and for white flies yellow orange cards are used. These traps are mostly yellow cards coated with adhesive. Sticky Trapsįor aphids and leafhoppers, you can easily for for the sticky traps. You can deploy more number of these shelter traps along your organic vegetable garden so that you would have easy minimisation of pests. They are easy to install and work best to estimate and eliminate pests like slugs. Shelter Traps provide a cool, moist and dark refugee for the night loving insects. You can hand these bottles in trees and check once in 3 days. PE-bottles with small holes can be half-filled with water, some cattle urine, fruit flesh or a small dead fish and a drop of detergent or soapy water. You can make you own pitfall trap using plastic bottle.įill half the bottle with detergent and water and place well equal to the surface of soil so that insects get fooled to fall into them and not walk around the surface.įruit flies, the ones which generally pester us in summers is best caught by bait traps. the container remains open so that the crawling insetcs fall into it. Pitfall traps are made by digging the soil and placing a container in it. Quick DIY Organic Pesticides You Can Make At Home For Your Organic Vegetable Garden They are not selective of insects and hence may harm the advantageous insects too, that why I generally do not personally recommend light traps. When there is no known pheromone for a species of insects, light traps are the next option. Light Traps are used to monitor the activity of quite a huge range of insect species. Thus you know which insect you specifically are targeting.įor example the pheromones of armyworm or cutworm when placed in the vicinity of your vegetable crops easily attract the females and prevent them from multiplying further. Pheromones are chemicals that are secreted by insects to attract and stimulate one gender or all gender of its kind. Lets see these traps one by one so that you can decide upon the ones you can use in your organic vegetable garden. ![]() examples are pheromone trap, light trap, fly trap and so on.
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