Medvedka: how to deal with it and what means to use

This insect from the superfamily of crickets in the course of its life on your site can cause great harm to cultivated plants. Therefore, the question of how to deal with the bear is very acute for some owners of household plots and summer cottages.

First, imagine the portrait of the enemy.

Description

A pest of a bear is an insect reaching five to six centimeters in length and colored in various brownish-brown shades. It is a pronounced predator, capable, however, of damaging numerous cultivated plants.
Most often, damage to plants is not of the nature of a special action, but is a side factor in the life of the bear. The fact is that she, like a mole, makes numerous moves in the soil. So she equips her nests or hunts for various worms, insects and their larvae.

Naturally, she prefers not to notice the obstacles in the form of roots of cultivated plants, but to lay her tunnels directly through them. This is the main harmful factor in the action of the bear.

Attention! A bear eating animal food is unlikely to be tempted by your radish or potato. This is easy to verify - catch an insect and treat it to both.

Signs of presence

It often happens that you planted some seedlings, and the next morning your rastukha fell down.

There are other signs of the presence of the pest on the site, the identification of which will help to quickly begin the fight with the bear, for example:

• numerous holes in the ground as if stuck with a stick;
• swollen stripes of soil over the insect moves;
• unexpected death of healthy plants;
• night chirping, like a cricket;
• detection of the insect itself.

Regarding the last sign, it can be said that the little Bears crawl out from under the ground in daylight very rarely, this mainly happens at the end of May or the first half of June, when the insect begins mating games.

Fight

So, we determined that in our area there was a massive invasion of the bear, it was time to start a fight with it on all fronts. What methods are not offered by summer residents who have become skilled over the years in the fight against this pest! We will present the most popular of them to your court.

Chemical methods

Let's start with the most harmful method, both for the bear and for the one who prefers this method - with chemistry.

Attention! Watering your garden with "muck", you destroy not only the bear, but also beneficial microorganisms, and infecting the soil, ultimately, yourself.

Those who did not heed the warning, read this chapter further, the rest are encouraged to skip it and move on to folk methods.

Perhaps the safest chemical remedy for the bear is water with laundry soap. Experienced fighters with this insect recommend pouring a soap solution into the passages. A bear can die inside its tunnel, or crawl out. Then it should be caught and transferred to the fisherman-neighbor for catching catfish or burbot. You look, he will treat you with a fish in response.

More powerful than soap is the dissolved washing powder. This drug can not only destroy the bear, but also completely burn the roots of plants, so use it carefully.

The next way is the use of special chemicals, such as:

• "Prestige 290 FS";
• Medvedtoks-U;
• Actara 25 WG.

Advice! When applying chemicals on the site, strictly follow the instructions, do not exceed the norm recommended by the manufacturer.

Trap

Many gardeners prefer to fight the bear, attracting them to a variety of traps that fill the delicacy attractive to insects, from the point of view of man, of course.

Basically recommend two fillers: honey and beer. You need to take a bottle with a wide neck or a small jar and bury it flush with the ground. Fill the bear trap with the indicated products and wait for the bear to get there, where they will die in the prime of life.

Advice for men! Bears do not like sour beer, so regularly fill traps, and not only with fresh foamy drink!

Another way to catch a bear in the garden is a dung trap. When creating it, they use the factor that the bear takes care of the offspring and tries to lay eggs in a warm place. For this, manure piles are laid out on the site. After that, they are regularly checked and, having found eggs laid, they destroy the masonry.

Scare

No less effective way to deal with the bears is repelling. Moreover, insects are scared, both with the help of mechanical devices, and using harsh odors.

One of the most popular methods is a “poltorashka” mounted on an inserted stick with cut out blades.

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Also, folk remedies against the bear include scaring with strong smell agents. As a scarecrow scarecrow, such stinkers are used as:

• kerosene;
• ammonia;
• rotten fish;
• fresh alder branches;
• marigold;
• onion peel;
• fresh needles;
• chrysanthemums.

Modern way

At the end of the article, we saved the modern method, so widespread in organic farming. He will help you answer the question of how to get rid of the bear in the garden forever. Many probably guessed that we are talking about mulching plantings with a thick layer of organic matter.

The thing is that the bears are very thermophilic insects, and they prefer to make their moves, and even more so egg laying in loose, but at the same time, well-heated soil. The use of a thick layer of mulching elements significantly reduces the temperature of the upper soil layers and the insect strives from the beds to passages where the temperature of the earth is higher.

Mulching or tinning the passages will drive the bear away and even further, to the outskirts of the site, where its moves can no longer cause you trouble.

As mulching materials, you can use:

• hay;
• straw cutting;
• needles;
• leaf litter;
• compost;
• shredded paper;
• sawdust and shavings;
• Pome husk.

Reference! Using organic mulch, you simultaneously feed the plants, providing nutrition to soil microorganisms.

About how to deal with the bear with the help of poisoned baits, see the attached video: