Do you have the same hole? It's eating your almonds!


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Do you have peppermint in your garden and are you looking forward to make homemade mojito or peppermint tea? Take a good look at her. If you have the leaves of the same hole, you put a beautiful but very hungry pest in it.

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Through the leaves, where do you look? We need to do some real research.

I've had my mom in my garden for a year now, and the most powerful synonym for it is weeds. He is an aggressive neighbor who likes and very purposefully oppresses other herbs. Basically, I got the impression that she was indestructible. The more I tossed it, the faster it grew. But now I got to her douche after a week, and she couldn't help but wonder. The leaves were all holes, and some of them had nothing but mesh left.

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Mandela is a really beautiful beetle. If only she hadn't done so much damage.

Do your herbs look the same, and you wonder what's going on? Take a good look at the plants and you will most likely find a surprisingbeautiful beetle with metal trusses. A joy to look at. It's a almond (Chrysolina herbacea). Both adults and larvae devour mint leaves. Females lay eggs on the underside of the leaves. They hatch after a couple of days, and the larvae eat for four to six weeks, so that they crawl into the soil and see here.

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The larvae feed for a couple of weeks, so that they then click.

How to get rid of her? Spraying herbs for direct consumption with some chemistry is not ideal. When you have only one c…, the most effective strategy is as it was in the days of socialism. That's when the American beetle, the potato almond, was collected. Now you're going to collect the ming. Every day until there's something. With regular collection, you will get rid of them in some time. The mint will grow fast again, because it's still a weed.

 

Photo: Maru