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Insect invasion of the garden: Brown crawling animals are appearing in droves

2022-05-04T03:07:09.000Z


Insect invasion of the garden: Brown crawling animals are appearing in droves Created: 04/05/2022 04:59 By: Olaf Kubasik Massive tree lice infestation in a family in the Heilbronn district. © Olaf Kubasik/echo24.de A family in the Heilbronn area is desperate. The insects are also appearing in the city of Munich. After a hard day's work, the family from the district of Heilbronn has really ear


Insect invasion of the garden: Brown crawling animals are appearing in droves

Created: 04/05/2022 04:59

By: Olaf Kubasik

Massive tree lice infestation in a family in the Heilbronn district.

© Olaf Kubasik/echo24.de

A family in the Heilbronn area is desperate.

The insects are also appearing in the city of Munich.

After a hard day's work, the family from the district of Heilbronn has really earned the weekend.

But nothing will come of it.

Because of an insect that suddenly appeared - and in droves.

The entire garden of the condominium is inhabited by the small brown animals.

They have spread to the children's playground equipment, romp about en masse on the lawn and form a living carpet on the terrace,

as echo24.de

reports.

The family man shows his white socks, which he walked across the terrace in – and which are now smeared on the underside with trampled insects.

Desperation due to the infestation in the garden of his house in the Heilbronn district, which he described as an "invasion", drives the man to a plant shop.

There, the employees tap on “cockroach larvae”.

Health pests that are already appearing in abundance in downtown Heilbronn.

Heilbronn: Insect trouble for family due to massive tree lice infestation in the garden

In his distress and worried about his family, the man picks up the phone and turns to Johann Ekov, a pest controller from the Heilbronn region.

And his expert eye immediately recognizes that the infestation is a nymph army of tree lice, also known as bark lice.

kind

tree lice

Class

insects

superfamily

aphids

Occurrence

on young needle shoots, but also on woody areas of conifers

food

sap

Tree lice love conifers - whether young shoots or already woody areas.

They lay their eggs on the host plants in autumn.

The larvae then hatch in the spring, similar to an extremely dangerous caterpillar.

As with the family in the district of Heilbronn.

But what helps against the plague of tree lice, which are winged for changing hosts and wingless for mass reproduction?

Johann Ekov advises the desperate family to wait for the announced rain before it comes into play.

Pest controllers from Heilbronn: Tree lice infestation can give families bad ants

And really: the rain is coming - and washes away the plague problem of the family in the district of Heilbronn caused by a coniferous tree growing on the neighboring property.

At least for now.

Tree lice are not actually on Ekov's list to combat unless another problem arises with them: "After eating, they excrete excess carbohydrates in the form of important honeydew, but this also produces a triple sugar that is considered an attractant for ants." And their aggressive ways are "not to be trifled with". 

In extreme cases, the pest controller from Heilbronn uses a "special, approved pesticide" that prevents tree lice infestation.

Incidentally, Heilbronn is not alone with the problem: In the city of Munich, the disgusting insects have also been sighted in masses, as

echo24.de

reported.

Source: merkur

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