Despite the fact that the bear improves soil aeration, it is a pest and a real disaster for gardeners. This large insect, breaking through passages underground, cuts off the shoots of cultivated plants on its way. Bears do not settle in depleted hard ground, but fertile land will not be left without help.
This insect can be exterminated only with effective chemicals or folk remedies.
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Folk methods from the bear
First of all, it is worth noting that these insects have natural enemies:
- starlings and rooks;
- storks and crows;
- moles and lizards;
- hedgehogs and shrews;
- ants and scolopendras.
If they do not cope with their work to destroy the bear, then you need to resort to the help of folk remedies.
Getting rid of harmful insects with needles
Grind conifer needles and scatter throughout the garden. Bears do not tolerate the smell of needles, so they will soon leave your site.
Beetle Catching
No less effective method of getting rid of insects than pesticides. For this, the cheapest beer, and even kvass, is suitable. Pour these drinks into cans and dig them into the ground at a slight angle. Bears like the smell of kvass and beer, so insects will surely fall into the set traps.
Onion peel
The bear does not tolerate many smells, and the unpleasant aroma of onions will permanently repel the desire of insects to breed in your area. The recipe for the preparation is to pour onion waste with water, followed by infusion. As soon as the solution starts to stench, start tillage.
Iodine and rotten fish
Dilute a bottle of iodine in a bucket of water and water the garden. Along with this, scatter the waste of rotten fish between the beds. Feeling the smell of iodine and fish, the bears will immediately disappear from your site.
Manure traps
Dung traps are no less effective than other folk methods. Dig a hole 50 cm deep and fill the bottom with any manure. This should be done in the fall, when insects are preparing for hibernation. They choose warm places, and manure generates a certain amount of heat in winter, which is enough to attract a bear. Even in one such pit all insects can gather, and the owner of the infield needs only to pull out all the manure with the bear from the pit and destroy it.
With the onset of winter, traps can be unearthed, and manure from them just scattered around the garden. Bears can not stand the frost and die from it.
Sweet trap
It can be made from honey by coating it with the inside of a glass jar. Then dig the can into the soil so that a small part of the tank rises above the surface. Feeling the aroma of honey, pests immediately rush to its source. Having fallen in a jar, an insect will never get out of it.
Poisoned Bait
Prepare cereal seeds and treat them with aldrin. This is a toxic organochlorine compound, so you need to work with it carefully.Put the poisoned grains in piles around the garden and periodically check. Having taken a lethal dose of these seeds, insects creep away not far.
In addition, pests can be eliminated with a soap solution. To facilitate its preparation, buy liquid soap, stir in water and pour pest holes in this liquid.
Kerosene scare
The effectiveness of this method has been proven by time. Pour sand at the edges of the plot and soak with kerosene. Its smell also repels pests. You can wet the rope in kerosene and pull along the perimeter of the garden. This will already be a preventive measure.
Shadow traps
No less effective are the so-called shadow traps. Bears love warm places, but do not tolerate direct sunlight. Place a bait under a sheet of dark plastic and periodically check the shadow trap. Under it, you will definitely find pests.
Prevention of the appearance of the bear
If preventive measures are taken in advance, then it will not be necessary to get rid of pests. Along the perimeter of the garden, plant plants whose smell repels harmful insects. The most famous is garlic or coriander.
You can fence the site with a thick palisade of alder or aspen. Medvedka bypasses these tree species. In addition, you can simply destroy habitats with annual digging of the soil.
It is not recommended to import fresh manure to the site, as pests could winter there. The best option for fertilizers is humus, which is not a favorable habitat for insects.
If you are just starting a fight with a bear, then when planting it is worth using chemicals. Thanks to them, you can save planting material.
The use of pesticides is the most effective way
If folk remedies and preventive measures do not help, then the last option remains - pesticides:
- "Imidacloprid" or "Medvetox";
- "Regent" or "Rembek";
- "Boverin" or "Medvetsid";
- Talstar or Acephat Pro;
- "Diazinon" or "Actara";
- Stormbreaker or Bison;
- "Bankol" or "Thunder-2."
If harmful insects have settled on your site, then this fact has a positive side, since the bear chooses only fertile soil. It can become a kind of indicator, confirming the ideal quality of your garden. It remains only to get rid of these pests in any known way and continue to grow excellent harvests of vegetables on their fertile land.
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