Aphids rave about the sweet sap of maple trees. The pests boldly colonize the leaves and shoots, excrete sticky honeydew and transmit diseases. You can find out here which home remedies you can use to fight the plague.

Ladybugs like to eat aphids

Soft soap eradicates aphids - Here's how

Soapy water has proved so effective in combating lice that you can now purchase the product as a finished product from specialist retailers. It is cheaper to make the home remedy yourself. The recipe and application are very simple:

  • Dissolve 50 grams of soft soap (€44.90) or grated curd soap in 1 liter of hot water
  • If the lice infestation is severe, add two teaspoons of spirit or alcohol
  • Pour the cooled solution into a spray bottle
  • Spray the maple repeatedly with the soapy water until dripping

It is important to note that you only use soft soap or curd soap. Other soap products contain thickeners, fragrances, and dyes that do more harm than good to a plant.

Scaring away aphids instead of killing them - this is how it works

In the natural home garden, no creature is sentenced to death just because it is not welcome. However, you do not have to tolerate an infestation of lice on the magnificent leaves of the maple tree. With an effective home remedy you can drive away the aphids never to be seen again. How to do it:

  • Heat 1 liter of water
  • Add 20 drops of tea tree oil and an emulsifier from the pharmacy
  • Pour into a handheld sprayer and spray repeatedly onto leaves and shoots

Lice of all kinds cannot withstand the strong smell of tea tree oil for long and run away. Incidentally, the deterrent effect extends to ants. The clever insects enthusiastically harvest the sweet honeydew from aphids to feed themselves and their brood. After using tea tree oil, the ant caravans on the maple are a thing of the past.

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If you fertilize your maple organically with plant manure, you also have a powerful remedy against aphids at hand. Nettle liquid manure in particular has proven to be a natural remedy against pests. Leave 1 kilo of fresh leaves to ferment in 10 liters of water for 14 days. Dilute the manure with water 1:10 and spray the tops and undersides of the leaves weekly.

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