How to fight the stone fruit leafhopper

Categories : Chronology , Stone fruit

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July-August

First step: we know our enemy

Second step: How to recognize the cyanin attack of stone fruits

Why fight the stone fruit leafhopper?

How to fight the leafhopper?

Crumpled, yellowed and dried leaves? Beware of the stone fruit leafhopper.

July-August

Crumpled, yellowed and dried peach, plum and apricot leaves? Try approaching your plant and shaking it slightly. As soon as you do, you will probably notice a small insect with green wings fluttering: the leafhopper. We advise you to read this article carefully and act quickly, so as not to damage the next harvest.

First step: we know our enemy

The leafhopper (Empoasca decedens) is a small, light green insect.

After a spring period spent on herbaceous plants, the leafhopper migrates and heads to stone fruits in summer.

Second step: How to recognize the attack of the stone fruit leafhopper

You can recognize the leafhopper attack by looking at the leaves of your plants.

The leafhopper, in fact, attacks through suction that suck the linfa directly from the veins of the leaves, taking away nourishment from the plant.

For this reason, the leaves will appear crumpled, yellowed and dried at the apex or at the edges of the flap.

Be careful, therefore, not to attribute the symptoms of the leaves to a lack of magnesium or potassium and focus all your strength on the little green bug.

Why is it so important to act promptly against the leafhopper?

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Why fight the stone fruit leafhopper?

Fighting leafhopper is extremely important for your plant's yield. After the sting, in fact, the peach orchard will suffer strong slowdowns in the development of the shoots. This will cause the uneven growth of the fruiting twigs and interfere with the regular nutrition of the flower buds. In short, the of the leafhopper will negatively affect the performance of your peach orchard especially during the following year.

Don't be scared, however, by what we have just told you; In addition to describing the damage, we will also suggest organic and conventional remedies to save your productions.

How to fight the leafhopper?

There are two strategies available to you to combat leafhopper: the integrated strategy and the biological strategy.

INTEGRATED STRATEGY

FRANKYL : 300 ml per quintal of water

To hit the leafhopper directly, on the other hand, we will act with a contact action, aimed at attacking the insect itself. For this, we will use:

TREBON UP : 50 ml per quintal of water (excluding plum trees), License required

ATTENTION!!

We advise you to carry out (for both defense strategies) maintenance doses of FRANKYL. In this way, you will implement a repellency action against the leafhopper and you will be able to constantly protect your plants.

ORGANIC STRATEGY

For organic lovers, we suggest two products.