Growing Grapes at Home? Here are some Pest Control Tips!

Growing Grapes at Home? Here are some Pest Control Tips!

When you are growing grapes at home, your grapevines may be attacked by a variety of pests. These threats will probably include insects and birds. Thanks to the advancements in technology we now have ways to protect our home grown grapes and vineyards from these bothersome pests. Here are some of the common pests:Cane borer - loves to attack the grape cane just as shoots begin to harden. Adult Cane borers burrow into live canes in search of wintering sites. The adult borers feed on the dead wood in the vineyard and they create sawdust that shows up on the leaves. Visible sawdust on grape leaves can be a sign of their presence in the vineyard, especially in late fall or early winter. Adult borers can reach up to 3 inches in length. The young of the cane borer are legless larvae with flat heads.Phylloxera -- attacks the grape vine's root system. This bug will kill your grape vine in just a few months if you leave it untreated. The phylloxera is almost microscopic in size. The resulting weakened roots and fungal infection that comes after the initial attack can restrain the roots, cutting off the flow of nutrients and water to the vine.Cane gallmaker - produces noticeable red galls on new shoot growth just above nodes. The majority of galls appears away from the fruit clusters and cause no serious crop loss. Vines with galls can still produce a crop the following year. Cane gallmakers reproduce only once every year. You need to find these pests before they reproduce. Adult gallmakers measure only 3 millimeters in length. The gallmaker lays its eggs in late fall and hibernates through the winter in your vines. Then it begins to molt during early spring. To find this pest, look for any swelling in the shoots and also look for round exit holes on the shoots that are made by the exiting adult gallmaker larvae.Besides those insects already mentioned above, a host of other insects also want to feast on your vines and growing grapes. They include: Leafhoppers, Japanese beetle, Rose chafer, Eight-spotted forester, Grape berry moth, Grasshoppers, Sphinx moth, and Leaf roller. Learning how to identify and control each one is essential to having a healthy productive vineyard.Some insects are actually good for your vine and you do not want to eradicate these helpers because they feed on mites and other troublesome insects. You will want to work with your local gardening center to get help to know which insecticide to use.Grapevines can endure low to medium levels of insect damage. You need to take action only when insects threaten a larger portion of the growing grapes at which point the leaves and the fruits are in direct harm. Insecticides can be used to fight insect infestation.When you are growing grapes at home in your backyard, it is possible for your vineyard to attract different types of birds. An effective way to protect your grapevines is to cover them with a net. Bird conservationists will be happy to know that when the net is properly attached, it provides no danger to the bird.You can also use a bird repellent. It uses flashing images to keep birds at bay. The flash of the repellent scares the birds off. In addition to visual repellents, there is also an audio bird repellent. This repellent generates an ultrasonic sound beyond the detection of human hearing; but this sound drives birds away in droves. It should be noted that for some reason, larger groups of birds seem easier to scare than smaller groups.Whatever the pest, pest management for those of us who have made the decision to grow grapes at home is critical and should be performed in a knowledgeable as well as a continuous manner.

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