Until recently, Ukrainian gardeners and flower growers had no idea what a Tsikadka is.
But already today, the South American guest has spread in such quantities that it has become a diverse threat to cultivated plants.
How to recognize a parasitic insect in your area, how to deal with it and continue to prevent it from going to your garden and to the garden - we'll tell about it later in the article.
Small pest - big trouble
The distribution of tsikadok contributed to the active import of foreign plants. Botanists now number about 20 thousand species of these insects. They are distinguished by bright colors, spotting and food preferences.
Outwardly, these are small, 1 cm in size, jumping butterflies that feed on the sap of cultivated plants. Their danger lies not only in the weakening of vegetation in the garden, in the garden and flowerbed, but also in the spread of viral infections, damage to plants by poisonous saliva and egg laying.
If nothing is done, for the season the cicadas will destroy the entire crop in the garden, and in the garden for this it will need only 2-3 years.
Did you know? Unusual outgrowths resembling in shape and the mechanism of action of the “gear” were found on the hind legs of the tsikadok larvae from the species of Issus coleoptratus. Each of them consists of 12 teeth. In insect jumping, the mechanism closes and scrolls. Scientists believe that such synchronization is impossible when managing the nervous system. By mature age, outgrowths disappear.
Both adult pests and its larvae are endangered by the cultivated flora. They pierce young leafy plates, take the juice and nutrients out of them, and inject poison in return.
As a result of such a vital activity, the foliage begins to turn yellow and deform, the culture lags far behind in growth, white or red spots appear on it. The plant gradually withers and dies. And butterflies multiply very quickly. For an adult insect to grow from an egg, it will take about 20 days. During the growing season, several generations of tsikadok are born. They easily adapt to adverse conditions: bad and cold weather without waiting for themselves they wait in the ground.
Main types
The peculiarity of voracious moths lies in the fact that representatives of different species can live in neighboring beds, since some may prefer tomatoes and others - potatoes. Consider what species are common in our area.
Did you know? The cicadas of the Eurymelinae species feed at night under the protection of ants, and during the day they hide in their burrows.
White
Externally, these moths are distinguished by white semi-rigid wings, slightly covered with small yellow or gray specks. Insect does not go over food. White cicadas are most often seen on grapes, figs, raspberries, plums, potatoes, gooseberries, peppers, tomatoes, corn, apples, and wild rose.
In the household farms there is practically no plant that the sucking parasite would not eat. He also adores lindens, maple and boxwood.
The white variety has spread to the Caribbean islands. Today, farmers from the entire American continent of the northern hemisphere are fighting with it, up to Brazil and Mexico. The end of the twentieth century was marked by unpleasant news for farmers in Europe and Asia - the white cicadas covered all the gardens and fields; it was necessary to urgently take measures to fight jumping moths.
The insect is very comfortable in moderately warm and dry climates, it can adapt to a long drought. In the process of feeding, an omnivorous insect secretes a sticky, cotton-like substance that thickly covers the affected leaf plates, blocking the access of oxygen.
Over time, these places are observed sooty mycelium, which prevent photosynthesis.
Important! Crop losses in attacks of cicadas up to 50%.
Drooling pennitsa
Scientists refer this species to the family of cicadas-pennits. On the fields and in the gardens of his representatives can be found from the beginning of the summer until the very autumn. The insect has already conquered the extra-tropical territory of the Eurasian continent, North America and North Africa. It can also be found on the cold Kamchatka.
Moths have a multi-colored color, the length of their body barely reaches 6 millimeters. They prefer to lie down in a tier of grass in a wet environment.
Depending on the colors, scientists distinguish between many forms of pest. Light brown and black-yellow butterflies with different stripes and shapeless spotting are not uncommon in our area. In general, the form of slobbery pennitsy is divided into 20 clean and 4 mixed forms.
Sucking the juice out of the vegetation, the cicada produces a lot of foamy saliva, due to which it got its name. 
Important! Some species of spiders, such as hunters of cemetery, who live in the habitats of their prey, feed on cicadas. As well as a ladybug and a golden eye.
Green
Outwardly, this is a hemiptera moth, whose body length reaches 6-9 millimeters. The front wings of the parasites are bright turquoise in color with a white border on the edges and thin black stripes on the veins. The color of the head varies from brown to light yellow. Females differ from males in brown tinge of wings and large sizes.
Insects feed mainly on plant sap, and, without busting, attack both herbal and woody crops. In the last decade of August, until November, the laying of eggs begins near the canopies.
They can be seen on wheatgrass, lake rush, rush, small pike. In the spring there are nymphs. Reproduction of the species depends on climatic conditions, but does not exceed 3 generations per year.
Green cicada prefers moist areas, so it often occupies coastal areas and swamps. Once in the garden, the first thing they attack is peaches, mulberries, plums, apples, cherries, grapes and pears.
The faithful companions of insects are the bacteria Xylella fastidiosa, which cause disease in plants and destroy vineyards. 
Important! Young fruit trees and a vine on which the cicadas put offspring, often suffer from bark cancer.
Black point
This species of parasitic insects is distributed throughout the northern hemisphere of the planet. Externally, they are tiny jumping butterflies of yellow or dark green with clear brown specks, black belly and yellow legs. At length, the pest barely reaches 3.5 millimeters.
He adores mint, sage, beans, clover, catnip, sunflowers, wormwood, potatoes and eggplants, peas, dahlias, chrysanthemums, basil, parsley and celery.
During the mating season, females lay 8 eggs every day, which ripen in 10 days. You can notice the clutch on the inside of the leaves of chosen plants. 
Buffalo
A visitor from North America is very dangerous for vineyards. Its appearance was recorded in 1954 in Moldova. After 5 years, they learned that a buffalo-shaped cicada was already in Armenia, and a year later - in Georgia, Azerbaijan. By 1960, the moth reached the Ukrainian Transcarpathia. 
Did you know? Hymenoptera of parasitoids from the family Mymaridae lay eggs in the green cycled eggs.Scientists note that initially the pest preferred a wild-growing abode on the forest plantations of ash, willow, maple, poplar and blackthorn.
But soon his garden diet included all garden plants. He especially likes to feast on young saplings. Representatives of the species differ from their counterparts with heightened gluttony and terrifying appearance.
Outwardly, it is a green insect, up to 7–10 millimeters long, with jumping hind limbs, folded with a crib-like webbed wings, bulging eyes, and a solid shield that is also the neck and back.
There are specific pointed outgrowths on both sides of this hump-like pronotum, which are very similar in shape to bovine horns.
If you disturb adults, they do not express aggressiveness; on the contrary, they fly away.
The laying of the eggs of the female buffalo-colored tsikadki produce strictly in 2 rows up to 12 pieces under the bark of young trees. In this case, the fibers of immature plants are severely damaged, the gum leak begins from wounds.
Pathogens penetrate into the moths pierced by pathogens, destroying metabolic processes. As a result, the surface of the affected area dies off. You can notice it by ring-shaped constrictions on young stems.
Occasionally the insect moves to more mature sprouts, where there is more juice.
Important! Cicada never lays eggs in dead plant fibers.
How to deal with a pest
Getting rid of the unwanted guest at the site is not so easy. It matters a comprehensive solution to the problem. And in order for the efforts made to give the desired result, you need to act according to a clear algorithm:
- Immediately at the first signs of the life of the insect, remove all the damaged shoots and burn them.
- Stop root and foliar plant nutrition.
- To treat infected cultures with insecticides (Aktara, Bi - 58 New, Fufanon, Aktellik, Permethrin, Bona Forte, Kinmiks) or 30% solution of karbofos.
- Spraying start from the lower shoots, gradually moving to the top.
- After sprinkling, the foliage of garden vegetation should be sprinkled with wood ash.
- During the ripening of the fruit can not use toxic chemicals. If the pest made itself felt just then, without waiting for the harvesting, disinfect the plants with garlic tincture (a glass of cloves missed through the garlic box on a bucket of water).
- On the balcony plants that have suffered from the cicadas, it is necessary to wash the leaves with "30 plus".
Important! On the beds next to the garlic and onions, a ciconia never appears.
Prevention
The most effective prevention is competent agricultural engineering. Do not be lazy to thoroughly study all about the necessary conditions for the plants in your garden, in the flower bed and garden. Carefully take care of them.
Do not allow the growth of weeds and accumulation of moisture. Vegetables thin out in time. In the autumn, harvest not only the harvest, but also the tops of the leaves that have fallen, regularly clean the trees from old and dead parts.
Periodically organize garlic-soap irrigation. Some gardeners share the experience of preventive spraying of garden specimens with Ditox, Danadim, Tagore, Tzipi plus. The procedure must be done before bud break and repeat somewhere in the second decade of May, when the moth larvae appear. 
Sicada is very poorly deduced, so do not count on a one-time result after the first sprinkling. For the final result will require a long hard work for several years. So that you do not have to get acquainted with a voracious insect, the main thing is to always keep your site clean and carry out timely preventive measures.
