What to do when potted flowers get bugs? Teach you homemade pest control tips
I love growing flowers, but there are always lots of little bugs. After many rounds of battling bugs, I found that the best weapon for pest control is still the yellow sticky board. Back when I had fungus gnats, I also tried burning mosquito coils, using washing powder, and putting crushed mosquito coils around, but none of it worked. I also tried floral water, which had some effect. But it was a pyrrhic victory, and the flowers would die too.
Because floral water is used diluted with water, at low concentration the bugs aren't afraid of it. At slightly higher concentration, the flowers can't take it. Since the flowers are all kept inside the home, I didn't dare use those pesticides either, because there are still children at home. It was only after I bought the yellow sticky boards that things got better.
Hanging for half a day and it's already this much
When the weather started to warm up, I hung up the yellow sticky boards. Seeing the scattered bugs stuck on them, I feel they are still the most useful, and they're not harmful, and they even catch other little bugs in the home as a bonus.
Densely packed bugs
Actually, this is because insects have a tendency to be attracted to yellow. You coat a yellow board with something sticky, such as machine oil, which doesn't dry easily and can stick the bugs. As long as the board is this kind of yellow, the material doesn't matter, cardboard works too. What lures the bugs is the color, not what's coated on it.
Clever pest control for potted flowers
1. Cut the leftover soap ends from laundry into small pieces, add water and stir into an alkaline soap solution, then spray a small amount into the flower pot to effectively kill black flies.
2. Mix flour and whole milk powder with double the water, filter through gauze, and spray the filtrate on the flower's branches and leaves to kill most spider mites and their eggs.
3. Mix half a teaspoon of detergent with 4 liters of water, and spray the backs of the leaves once every 5 days until the whiteflies are completely eliminated.
4. Put the flower pot into a basin of water so the water level is slightly above the soil surface, and leave it for half an hour to 1 hour to suffocate the maggots in the soil.
5. Add 20 times the water to chili peppers or chopped oleander leaves, boil for 20 minutes, let cool, then water the flowers or filter the residue and spray. It has a good pest control effect. Note that the boiled oleander leaf liquid must be used up in one go, to prevent people or livestock from being poisoned by accidental ingestion.
6. Light 1 mosquito coil inside the flower pot, cover the potted flower with a plastic bag, open a small hole at the top, and fumigate for 1 hour to effectively kill butterfly and moth larvae and adults. Spraying with a 1:1000 neutral washing powder solution has an extremely high kill rate against whitefly. Spraying with a 1:600 essential balm solution can kill over 95% of pests.