Not all gardeners know what a bear looks like. A photo, a description of how to fight, methods of struggle, the experience of gardeners will help preserve the harvest and get rid of this insidious pest. No wonder he has such a formidable name - the bear. And the view of the insect is awesome. How to get rid of the bear in the garden forever, is this possible? After all, what happens? Plant seedlings, come the next day, and she lies unhappy, withered. A familiar picture? Is it possible to win? Can this fight be successful? To do this, you need to have a good idea of how this insect lives, reproduces.
What does the bear look like, its lifestyle
The popular names of the pest are cabbage, spinning top, earthen cancer.
Pest in the photo:
The pest arranges breeding nests in heaps of manure, garbage, on the boundaries, paths at a depth of 10-15 cm from the soil surface. The size of the nest is 6 × 6 cm. Females are very fertile - in a few receptions they can lay from 200 to 400 eggs.
Bear Eggs:
The newly hatched larvae of the bear:
Mechanical damage to nests or air passages is fatal to eggs and young larvae. If you just ruin the hole, the bear will surely restore it. She does it very quickly. But the pest will not be able to restore the destroyed nest. But it’s not so easy to get to it.
This pest is practically impossible to completely destroy, but it is necessary to fight it. Otherwise, you will not be able to get rid of it.
How to defeat a bear in the garden
We have collected information about the fight against the bear with folk remedies and methods.
Get to know:
- Absolutely harmless, inexpensive, easily accessible method. Bears pour an oil emulsion into their burrows: 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil in 4-5 liters of water. Find a hole in the ground on the bed or next to it - this is the entrance to the hole. Cautiously with a sharp angle of the chopper or the smallest plane cutter tear it. You need to find a place where he steeply goes deep into the earth. Now this is the mink itself. Kapustyanka hatch there during the day, and also arranges nests, lays eggs. Usually for one mink a liter jar with an oil emulsion is enough. It is poured to the top gradually, without rushing, as the emulsion may not be allowed to let in air. After some time, from the mink appears, oiled, bear. Oil covers the airways of the insect - it dies.
- You can fight a bear like that. They take wheat grains (1 cup), boil them until soft, and then dry them, but not dry, and so that they are not wet, they do not stick to each other. Stacked in a jar, add vegetable oil (2-3 tablespoons), mix. Then 1-2 tablespoons of metaphos are poured into the same jar - this is a contact action insecticide. Thus prepared grains are put in a hole with seedlings. Kapustyanka will come to the smell, taste the poison - she will no longer be up to your seedlings.
- The classic method. Very old, proven. Effective. But I honestly do not really like to use it against the bear. Since then you have to crush, destroy these insects. It’s better to let them die somewhere away from my eyes. Lubricate the inside of the bottle with a wide neck (16-18 cm high, 5-6 cm neck diameter) with candied honey. Make a recess in the ground, place the bottles so that the neck is at ground level. Cover the bottle above, but so that there is free access to the pest. The smell of honey attracts the bear, they crawl into the bottle, from which they can no longer crawl out.
- Small fish (sprat, sprat, hamsa) - pickled, spicy salted, better spoiled, torn in half and laid in holes with seedlings, to a depth of 3-4 cm, located around the perimeter of the hole. The smell of fish discourages the bear.
- She is afraid of alkaline solutions (soapy water, a solution of washing powder, a solution of any dishwashing detergent, etc.). We take 4 tablespoons of washing powder, dissolve in 10 liters of water. Pour 0.5 liters of this solution into each mink. We wait. The bear herself jumps out of the mink - only manage to catch it. You can water the area where you noticed her mink from a watering can with any soapy solution, and pour water on top with plain water so that the soapy solution penetrates deeper into the soil. The effect is the same. All the bears in this area, as if mad, will crawl out onto the surface of the earth. Then you collect them.
- You can fight with a bear with the help of an alder, if it is available to you. You need to break green alder branches, stick or dig them at a distance of 1.5 meters from each other. When the branches dry, they are replaced with fresh ones. The smell of an alder frightens off a bear, they leave your site, and you get rid of them.
- Separate beds, as well as hotbeds, can be protected from the pest by fencing them with grooves filled with sand moistened with kerosene.
- In the spring, scatter small heaps of fresh manure in your area. The bear crawls there, arranges minks and lays eggs. After 10-20 days, look through the heaps, destroy all the eggs.
- You can fight with a bear with the help of chrysanthemums. Do not throw leaves, cut stems of chrysanthemums in autumn. Grind them, dry, and in the spring lay in the holes, planting seedlings. The bear does not like the smell of chrysanthemums, so it will not touch your plants.
- This method worked well: when planting seedlings in a hole, add a handful of dry mix of orange peels, eggs and onions, mix everything with soil and plant seedlings - the bear will not get to the tender roots.
- When watering seedlings under the root (try so that the solution does not get on the leaves!) I add a small amount of ammonia (2-3 tablespoons per bucket of water) to the water, the smell of which is a deterrent for the bear.
- It’s good to fight with a bear, as well as with moles with the help of wind turbines on metal poles dug in the garden. They scare them away, creating a noise, vibration, transmitted on the ground.
Reviews of experienced gardeners on the fight with the bear
This method of protection only affects crops propagated by seedlings. Cut a ring 6–7 cm high from PET bottles. Plant seedlings inside the ring. The ring is deepened to a depth of 5-6 cm, i.e. 1cm should be above the soil level. This method allows you to save about 80% of seedlings. In the bottoms of the bottles, buried 1-2 cm below the soil level, you can put a bait for the bear (sold in gardening stores). Unfortunately, the bait is effective until the first rain (or watering from a hose)
Lekseich
http://forum.homedistiller.ru/index.php?topic=1813.0
I fought as follows. Dig a hole in the depth of a bayonet and a half shovels and meter per meter around the perimeter. At the bottom you throw fresh manure, preferably horse manure, the thickness is not lower than 15-20 cm, from above there is as much straw and land 20-25 cm. It turns out like a greenhouse. In the autumn, a bear from the entire garden crawls up to bask and lay eggs in this warmth. At minus 5-6 degrees, I dug up this trap and there they were just darkness! All in a barrel and burned. In two years, everything was deduced. Only this must be done together with the neighbors 100 meters in all directions from your garden. And then it's like cockroaches. You stain, they roll off for a couple of weeks, and then they come back from neighbors. By the way, these pits should be one for every 3-4 acres of the garden.
Goodwin
http://forum.homedistiller.ru/index.php?topic=1813.0
Medvedka lives only in acidic soils. The soil needs to be “deoxidized” annually abundantly add lime and dolomite, if the acidic water is close, like on peat bogs, drain, add sand and neutral soil to peat. The bear will disappear. Proven in practice.
Arsim
http://houseinform.ru/forum/kak_borotsya_s_medvedkoy
In the autumn we pour out dry chicken droppings on the beds, the bear does not tolerate this smell, leaves. For many years they fought with the bear, but only after such a procedure it became less.
Positive
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I think every gardener understands how dangerous the pest of the bear is for the garden. A photo will help determine if you have it. Read the description of how to fight. I think everyone will find the most effective for themselves. Or maybe you are using some other? Share in the comments.