Bamboo worms are the larvae of bamboo wasps, which are a pest that harms bamboo forests.

Bamboo worms eat young bamboo shoots to absorb nutrients, within 20 days from the size of a grain of rice to the fingertip thick, parasitic in the bamboo tube, from the tip of the bamboo section by section down to eat, and finally hidden in the root, body fat stop eating, ready to break out of the chrysalis. Near the time of the chrysalis, in addition to the feet and the ventral surface of the yellow, are black.

Adults fly out in June, fluttering in the bamboo forest, looking for 2-8cm thick branches to lay eggs. Eggs are laid in the hollows of twigs, 1-5 per section.

Extended information:

The bamboo worm is a kind of pest, which lays eggs and hatches in young bamboo, and the larvae grow by sucking the fleshy and moisture of the inner wall of the bamboo, so that once harmed, the young bamboo can not be grown to become wood.

Bamboo pest control

1, bamboo shoots cover: bamboo wire and other materials made of conical cover, since early May, the bamboo shoots just out of the ground on the cover, you can prevent and control the adult pests spawning damage.

2, kill adult insects: combined with winter cultivation to kill adult insects in the soil. After the adults come out of the soil, they hide under the cool bamboo leaves at noon and can be captured and killed.

3, pharmaceutical control: adult pests egg-laying period with 90% trichlorfon 500 times liquid or 50% dichlorvos 1000 times liquid, spraying shoot tips, every 7 days spray 1 time can be. With 40% Rogaine emulsion 3-6 times liquid, in the adult insect spawning 5 days after the brush holes (adults spawning 1 day, fresh holes, green and wet; 2 days gray with green; 3 days gray and black and dry; 4 days only a small amount of fiber dew; 5 days no fiber, only see the worm droppings), the preventive effect is remarkable.

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