Insect trap in the garden with just one bottle

Start with a plastic bottle and poke two small holes. Pour in sugar, vinegar, and water. The yellow color attracts insects and prevents rain from polluting the contents.

Bottle Insect Trap: How to Make One at Home

INSECT TRAP WITH BOTTLE

Insects, aphids, parasites, snailsThe list of garden enemies is long, and they're always lurking. To stop them, however, don't immediately give in to the lure of industrial products with various chemical contents. Try our natural solution first: very simple and effective.

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HOW TO KEEP HARMFUL INSECTS AWAY FROM PLANTS

In particular, we would like to point out the effective stratagem adopted by our reader Giuseppe Monti who uses the containers of creams to build DIY traps that can capture harmful insects without attracting beneficial ones.

FLYING INSECT TRAP

  • To begin, make two small holes at the top of the bottle so that the underwire hooks can pass through.
  • Also make two holes in the bottom of the container of the cremino so that the wires can pass through: make sure that the cremino container is yellow.
  • Pour into the bottle two tablespoons of sugar, a glass of vinegar and enough water to cover almost half the bottle.
  • The container must slide along the wire and must not close the trap entrance.

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WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THE CONTAINER?

The yellow color attracts insects and, at the same time, prevents rain from polluting the contents.

WHEN TO USE THE CONTAINER

Place the traps when the peach blossoms or those of other fruit trees begin to open and, if you notice that the trap has worked, after a few weeks replace the contents and proceed in the same way until the trap is complete. fruit harvest.

In particular, Giuseppe uses three or four traps for each fruit tree and a trap placed on a stake, every three metres, on the rows of pepperoni and cabbage.

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