Who eats cucumber seedlings in the greenhouse: save the plants before it's too late

Quite often, summer residents encounter the phenomenon that some pest is eating the seedlings in the greenhouse.

Before you get rid of it, you need to determine who exactly is harming your plantings.

Together with the expert of the online publication TUT NOVOSTI, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , we figure out who it’s time to save your cucumbers from.

Pests of cucumbers in the greenhouse

In a greenhouse, several garden enemies that are common in our latitudes can harm plants.

Most often, summer residents encounter mole crickets, wireworms, whiteflies, slugs and winter moth caterpillars.

If grown plants suddenly start to dry out, it is almost certainly a mole cricket. You can fight this pest by planting young plants in a cut bottle so that the insect cannot reach the plant.

If the leaves are covered with whitish spots and sticky secretions appear on the stems, then you are dealing with whitefly. Sticky tape from the men and decoctions of dandelions, garlic or wild garlic will help against it.

Slugs love to feast on young shoots and leaves of cucumbers. A fence made of cut bottles will help against them: pests cannot overcome sharp edges on their own.

Earlier we wrote about which pests can destroy roses.