Horticulture in our country has a long tradition, rooted in the ancestors of farmers. For many centuries, people bred gardens and orchards, for so many years they have resisted a large army of insects, shamelessly devouring and damaging the fruits of their hard work. Insects dominated the Earth long before the appearance of mankind due to truly limitless adaptive abilities. Now they rather quickly adapt to toxic chemicals, so there is a need for new insecticides. Well proved themselves in the fight with Medvedka chemicals - cuts and others.
- , a close relative of crickets and grasshoppers. The length of the dark brown body( excluding whiskers) reaches 5 cm , a solid chitinous breast shell protects the head. A pair of forelimbs is similar to those of a mole, because it has a similar application - digging underground tunnels.
Often found in the European part of Russia, it prefers loose, sunny, moist soils. Almost all the time is under the ground, rarely crawling to the surface, and even at night. Overwinters in deep, up to 2 meters, holes, likes warm compost, manure. Please note - it is
with manure that often travels through the gardens of this pest.
Medvedka - a large digging insect What it eats in the garden
Medvedka - a predator who eats worms and other insects. For example, when keeping a bear in captivity( yes, it happens), they don’t eat tubers and berries badly, but you can’t drag them away from crustaceans from crushed meat.
Your seedlings simply prevent them from laying an underground passage. The insect gnaws through the tender roots with its powerful mouth apparatus and moves on.The roots of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, cabbage, peppers, berry bushes are damaged. Tubers of carrots, beets, potatoes are disfigured by tunnels. conducts its destructive activity from May to August .It is worth noting that fragrant plants - garlic, parsley, calendula, marigold, alder does not tolerate and passes by.
How to fight it
There are, conditionally speaking, mechanical and chemical control measures. It is advisable to use them all at once, in a complex , having agreed with the neighbors about an agreed “anti-prospect” action. Exterminate the pest on the site is completely possible only for 2-3 years .
When conditions are met, extermination of a medvedka takes 2-3 years. How to get out using folk methods
Mechanical( folk) methods are based on insect life cycles.
- It is known that the caps winter in manure, which, when decomposed, releases heat. Therefore, in early August, is prepared for fossa-traps with a depth of about 40 cm with pereperemym manure. Pests creep in there for the winter. With the arrival of the first frosts, these traps are scattered, the caught medvedok destroy.
- Sometimes the weather comes to the rescue of people. The increased bacterioses develop due to increased dampness and humidity, and they die.
- Spread garlic, marigold along the perimeter of the section , insert alder pegs with bark.
- Put in the seedling holes( one choice): pieces of fish( sharp smell of rotting), a clove of garlic, a handful of dry marigolds or onion peel. It is possible along the perimeter of the beds to decompose these "goodies", sprinkled with earth.
- Potatoes will protect needles or woody ash pitted in the pits before planting the tuber.
- Pounded eggshell with unrefined vegetable oil is laid out in a shallow groove around the seedling and sprinkled with sand. From such a "treat" the pest dies.
Chemicals & Poison
Chemical methods are more effective, but also more potentially dangerous than traditional ones.Read the instructions for use of the selected drug and observe the precautions .Wear gloves, remove chemicals from children and pets.
Cuts - instructions for use
Cuts "Cuts" - insecticide a wide range of action. Rescues from a bear, fleas, ticks, locusts, bedbugs, wireworms. The active ingredient "fipronil" is relatively safe when it comes into contact with the skin, taken orally in large doses, it poisons the liver, kidneys, and the nervous system.
Fipronil was synthesized by French chemists, came to Russia in the mid-90s and helps to remove pests with his own hands. Insects have not yet developed resistance to the insecticidal properties of the drug."Cuts" is made in the form of multi-colored granules, packaged in packages of 100 /200/ 400g.
Red and green Rubit poison granules, resembling the roots and stems of plants, are saturated with a pest-attracting smell.
“Tasty” granules fall asleep in the grooves 3 cm deep and dug about half a meter apart. Top priprashivayut ground, so that domestic birds, cats, dogs do not eat them. You can lay the granules directly into the pest holes.
Duration of the drug is approximately 15-20 days .Apply the tool before planting seedlings and after 2 weeks, then as needed. Medvedka eats “Rubit” willingly and dies after 3 hours.
Consume chemical at 300 g per hundred. .The drug is good because it decomposes quickly to safe compounds. Plants grown in the area treated with Rubit do not contain harmful components.
If a poisoned dead bear is eaten by a cat or dog, the animal may suffer.Vofatoks
Vofatoks "Vofatoks" - another effective remedy for the bear. Mix the poison with 1 kg of boiled cooled grain or steamed feed, add 2 tablespoons of unrefined sunflower oil.
In the evening, spread the bait into the grooves that were dug to a depth of 3-4 cm. The soil should be wet. Sprinkle with earth on top.
Bowerin
"Bowerin" is a liquid form preparation containing the spores and mycelium of the fungus pathogenic for the bearfish "Beauveria bassiana".Spores of the fungus enter the body of the insect, germinate there and release deadly toxins. The affected pests themselves become distributors of fungal spores and infect their relatives .
Bowerin Preventing the presence of pest
Fencing from sheet iron or old linoleum, buried 50 cm below the ground, to enclose storage places for manure, compost, .
The height of the barrier should be at least 50 cm; the Medvedka, although not high, flies.Frequent loosening and digging up the garden destroys nests and insect passages. Fight with the pest together with the neighbors in the area, so increases the likelihood of driving the pest out of its territory.
Medvedka gives gardeners a lot of trouble. Use mechanical and chemical means of destruction in the complex. Conduct the soil in spring, summer and autumn. Secure plots with manure and compost. Toxic chemicals will not cause harm if you follow the instructions for use and safety.
