Recently, Nannan found that the leaves of the moon season have many round cuts, very regular, about the following look:
Neat edges,
is round,
and only appears on the edges,
Rarely does it cut to the main vein.
When such a leaf is found, the murderer must be a leaf-cutting bee.
Leaf-cutting bee committing a crime
Leaf-cutting bees are also a species of bees, one of the evolutionary taxa of long-mouthed bees in the general family of bees, and important pollinator bees of important agricultural, forestry and animal husbandry plants.
Leaf-cutting bees resemble bees in appearance, but the most obvious feature of this type of insect is that it has a tuft of short golden hairs on its abdomen. They are so named because they often cut semi-circular pieces from the leaves of plants and bring them into the hive.
Whenever it comes to laying eggs, leaf-cutting bees cut leaves to build a house and build a safe and warm home for themselves and their future children.
Usually the leaves of any plant may be taken home by the leaf-cutting bee, but the leaves may be hard and have a faint floral fragrance, especially the leaf-cutting bees, and many of the leaves in the month will be damaged in this season.
Leaf-cutting bees carrying leaves home
prevention and cure
In the mind of the south, the leafcutter bee is not strictly a pest, although it will cut away the leaves, but it will also leave at least 1/3 of the leaves, and will not cause substantial harm to the plant.
If your season is lush and robust, cut a few leaves to reward them and thank them for pollinating the plants, after all, they are also part of nature.
If you are still young and have more leaves, you should properly control it.
Image source: Kiko @sina
Change places for the month
Leaf cutters are stubborn and will cut to the end of a month. When you move the moon season away from that place, it will go elsewhere to find the leaves of the moon that can be cut, and it will not come back after a long time.
Cover the season with a gauze mesh
The reason why the leaf-cutting bee is difficult to deal with is that you never know when it will come, and it does not suck the sap of plants, so spraying has little effect on leaf-cutting bees, and artificial hunting is not very realistic.
You can use materials such as yarn mesh to cover the moon season, although there is no way to stop the leaf cutting bee, but you can protect the moon season.
Leaf cutter bees don't have to worry, but stem bees must be dealt with in time.
Stem bees mostly appear around April in the spring, they look for strong branches, and then lay eggs like the branches of plants, and when the eggs hatch into larvae, they will frantically gnaw on the branches, suck the sap, and deal with them in time after discovery.
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