When at the summer cottage the plants wither, despite their regular watering, there is a high probability that the cause was the bear. Medvedka is a dangerous pest that can significantly damage the crop and ruin perennial plants. This underground resident spoils the roots of young shoots and adult plants, which leads to their death.
Other names of the Medvedka are kapustyanka, ground crayfish, top, mole-cricket. The bear insect was nicknamed for its brown color and a certain clumsiness of movements. Kapustyankoy - for the fact that he loves cabbage. Due to the similarity of the front limbs with the claws, some call this pest an earthen cancer. Wolf - because young larvae have a grayish tint. Mole cricket - due to the fact that the insect is a bit like a mole and chirps at night.
The fact that the medvedka lives in the garden can be prompted by small holes in the beds, as well as loose earth mounds. After the rain, they are more clearly visible. If in places of these traces to dig 15 cm deep into the ground, you can find the laid eggs of pests. Tiny eggs the size of hemp in 10-17 days will turn into larvae, which will also spoil the plants in the garden.
Usually, during the day, the bears sit in holes, and in the evening they become active: make new moves, destroying the roots of plants in their path.
Find and destroy Medvedka is not the easiest task. These insects fly long distances, move on the ground and swim. Their location can be determined by the characteristic sound produced in the evening and at night. It resembles a grasshopper chatter, only louder. In winter Medvedka lives in deep layers of the earth or compost heaps. In the spring begins to aktivnichat and rises closer to the surface. In June insects mate, and then lay 500-600 eggs. During this period, the pest is already clearly present in the garden, as can be seen from the signs described above - hillocks and holes in the soil.
Did you know? Bears are used in pharmaceuticals. These scary-looking insects are considered an effective cure for tuberculosis. Medvedka is also considered effective in combating cancer and HIV infections. - its use enhances immunity. And not all medars are equally useful: Asian insects are more effective in combating diseases.
Description and photo of a dangerous pest, looks like a bear
The bear has a distinctive appearance and is easy to distinguish from other insect pests.
External characteristics of the bear:
- torso length from 2 to 5 cm;
- the torso is divided into the cephalothorax and abdomen, which is three times as large as the cephalothorax;
- head and chest covered with thick shell;
- the abdomen at the end has two processes 1 cm long;
- external organs of the head: eyes, whiskers, tentacles located around the mouth;
- the forelegs turned inside have thickened lower legs;
- hind limbs have four to five spines;
- the wings of the insect are thin scaly, and they are longer than the body;
- the color of the head, chest and abdomen is dark brown, the extremities are light brown.
Manure traps - preventing the appearance of a bear
Experienced gardeners know that a capstock can be defeated with improvised means and chemical preparations. However, most prefer well-known folk remedies in the fight against Medvedka.
A proven and reliable way to destroy and prevent the appearance of polar bears - the use of manure traps. These insects have a passion for fresh manure, so it is used as bait.
Manure traps are usually arranged in the fall and spring. In the autumn they build trap holes 50 * 50 * 50 cm in size, which are then filled with manure. Manure attracts the pest, and it is happy to settle there for the winter. When a period of constant negative temperatures comes, these trap pits dig up and scatter the contents over the soil surface. Bears at this time are in a state of anabiosis, they are practically not mobile and therefore quickly die from cold.
In the spring, around the beginning of May, the manure from the bear is laid out in small piles around the garden. It is recommended to make these masonry often and in small sizes - every 3 m with several manure shovels. Such heaps attract water to a permanent habitat - here they will lay eggs. These masonry is easy to destroy, regularly checking the pile for their presence. Thus it is possible to significantly reduce the population of bears.
Fill oil in the hole
Another folk remedy for medvedki - ordinary vegetable oil. Having found the insect's loosening on the soil and the passages under them, you can “pour it out” with the help of oil and water.
Important! It is easier to find the minks and moves of the bear after watering or rain, as this pest is activated in freshly-humid soil.
When a mink is detected, the entrance to it must be widened with a finger, after which the oil and water should be poured in. First, it is better to pour in a small amount of water to make sure that it is a mink of a bear Then pour 7-10 drops of sunflower oil, and after that - plenty of water. Sometimes a bucket of water goes away, especially if the ground is dry. In addition, the holes of the capstones are very deep.
Since the body of the bear is covered with hairs, water, unlike oil, does not wet it. Oil also wets the body of the pest and closes the airways. As a result, the insect crawls to the surface.
If the body of the bear is well oiled, then after a minute or two she dies. If the oil is not sufficiently wetted Medvedka, it can crawl away, and in this case, after detection, it is better to press down.
Did you know? To "pour out" bears you can use a soap solution. Soapy water is poured into the insect holes, after which it crawls out and should be destroyed, or the bear dies inside the hole.
Use Metaphos to combat pest
In addition to folk remedies, there are other methods of how to deal with a medvedka in the garden. For these purposes are used poison bait. They are easy to prepare in summer conditions, which will require grain and insecticide.
Good help in the fight against cabbage, the drug Metaphos - insecticide contact action. The recipe for a poisonous bait with Metaphos:
- cook wheat, corn or barley grains;
- add Metaphos to porridge in the proportion of 50 g per 1 kg of grain;
- add 30 g of sunflower oil to 1 kg of cereal.
Infusion of onion peel - do without drugs
Not everyone is ready to use chemicals to control pests. For many gardeners, the more natural the method, the better and simpler.
There are methods of dealing with Medvedka, whose effectiveness has been proven over the years. One of them - the use of tincture of onion peel. The principle of its operation is based on the fact that the lettuce does not tolerate the smell of onions. Therefore, the onion peel is recommended to put in the wells when planting vegetables.
To prepare the infusion of onion peel from a bear, you will need:
- 900 g onion peels;
- 10 liters of water.
How does the bear react to kerosene?
There is also such a method of dealing with capustanus as scaring it with kerosene. This simple method is used by many generations of gardeners and has proven its effectiveness. It is based on the use of kerosene and sand.
The components are taken in the proportion of 1 kg of sand per square meter of land and 50-70 ml of kerosene. If we are talking about a large garden, then this method is not very convenient. But it is very suitable to expel the capus from the greenhouse.
The sand is watered with kerosene and mixed well. After that, the sand is mixed with dry soil (several soil spades are taken). A mixture of sand, kerosene and soil is used for planting plants, seedlings: it is scattered over the bed and mixed with the top layer of soil.
Kerosene with sand is also introduced into the furrows around the perimeter of the greenhouses. Right there, along the perimeter, you can additionally pull a rope dipped in kerosene, which is also effective for scaring off the pest.
Sweet trap: make honey bait
To catch a bear you can use a sweet trap using honey. This requires a glass jar or plastic container with smooth walls. The inside is coated with honey about ¼ of height so that there is enough flavor. After that the bank is buried flush with the ground, a board, cardboard or piece of iron is put on top. It is necessary to leave a gap so that the bear could crawl into the trap.
Attracted by the warmth and smell of honey, the bear crawls into the jar and falls to the bottom. Periodically you need to check the trap and remove pests from it.
Important! In addition to catching bear with honey, you can also catch them on beer. Beer has a peculiar smell that attracts these insects. In a jar buried in the groundat an angle of 45 degreesbeer is poured, and the neck cover with gauze. Attracted cabbage soup gnaws cheesecloth and fall into the trap jar. Reviews of the method say that it is very effective.
Rotten fish is an unpleasant but effective method.
Medvedka delivers too much harm, so gardeners have invented a variety of different methods of dealing with it. Some methods are not very pleasant for humans, but nevertheless they are used because of their effectiveness. One of them is scaring off a spider fish with rotten fish.
This method is not suitable for everyone, because the smell of a rotten product is too unpleasant. But for those who still decide to use it, you will need a rotten fish, which is placed in the wells when planting. Kapusyanka will bypass such places side, and fish in addition will serve as fertilizer for plants.
In addition to seedlings, ordinary crops save with rotten fish. You can also use fresh fish, spreading it around the perimeter of the site. Top of the fish to sprinkle with dry soil. Over time, the product will deteriorate, scaring off the smell of the bear, and the ascended crops will be protected from the pest.
Difficulties that accompany this method: the cat can pull fish, plus spoiled air on the site. Therefore, the use of such a method of dealing with a capustress requires a balanced approach.
How does the bear react to the needles in the garden
Experienced gardeners know that Medvedka is afraid of the smell of pine needles. Therefore, the collected and chopped coniferous branches laid out in the garden in between the rows of cultivated plants. It is better to sprinkle them with earth - so the coniferous scent will last longer. Pine needles can also be put in the hole when planting potatoes.
Why medvedki not tolerate coniferous smell, it is not known, but the fact remains: the pest avoids the needles side.
This method uses the branches of pine, fir, spruce.
If a medvedka started up in the garden, the fight against it is inevitable. Otherwise, the plants will be destroyed, because this pest eats root systems. There are a lot of methods to fight with Medvedka, and some of them involve the use of ordinary products and items available on the farm. Armed with one or more of them, you can quickly overcome this attack, thus preserving the crop and cultivated plants.
