How to Exterminate fruit flies or just Extrude Only
Have you ever had a tree that has been fruitful yet that fruitful tree fell to the ground before it is cooked. It turns out the rotten fruit of the 80s there were worms in it. The Caterpillar is the larva of fruit flies.
Before discussing how to exterminate fruit flies, let's first learn how their life cycle.
- the female flies menyuntikan about 50 egg into the fruit, usually marked black spots on the skin of the fruit.
- After about 5 days, the eggs will hatch and foraging. Their food is the meat of the fruit, they begin to eat from the inside.
- About 4 to 7 days later, maggots will seek out of the fruit. Start visible from the flesh of the fruit and the hole in the skin of the fruit is increasingly clear. When it happens like this, it's been rotting fruit and will fall off the stalk.
- The maggots out of the fruit will become pupae in the soil. About 3 to 5 days in the pupa will come out a new fruit fly, just one minute flies ready to fly.
How to repel fruit flies
For you who don't like using insecticide, can try simple tips below:
- Wrap with plastic
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The most effective way if you have a short, simply wrap the tree with dark plastic, woven bamboo, woven coconut leaves etc. Give a pit air circulation so that the fruit does not rot easily because of damp. Do Encasement as early as possible when the fruit is already formed, wrap with plastic wrap that corresponds with the size of the fruit when ripe. These tips to prevent flies betika inject eggs into a fruit
- Fogging
- This action is intended to ward off swarms of flies from the garden. Fogging is done by burning hay or dried grass to formed bara. After that put some leaf/branch that is still damp. In this way the smoke out more durable. Fogging is done about 6-10 hours to make it more effective.
- Plant Basil
- It is said that fruit flies don't like the scent of Basil plants. There is no harm trying to plant Basil near trees that bear fruit, this herb can be used for cooking and medicine.
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