Summer residents, come to your senses: plants that attract aphids to your plot

17.12.2024 22:38

Whether there will be a lot of aphids in a plot depends not least on what crops are growing there.

We will tell you which plants attract this pest to your site.

What plants attract aphids

Firstly, aphids are attracted to many berry, fruit and garden crops, in particular, gooseberries, currants, apple trees, cabbage, and peppers.

Of course, you can't do without these plants. However, you can completely do without such crops as black elderberry, fuchsia, acacia, bird cherry and viburnum.

The above-mentioned plants, by the way, attract not only aphids to the site.

viburnum
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For example, viburnum attracts the viburnum leaf beetle, the comma scale and the case moth, bird cherry attracts the hawthorn and the flower beetle.

Also, to get rid of aphids, you need to fight the ants that carry them away.

Timur Khomichev Author: Timur Khomichev Internet resource editor