How to deal with the bear
Medvedka and the fight against it - frequent topics inspecialized publications and on horticultural forums. Owners of vegetable gardens, this pest delivers many troubles: it gnaws the underground part of the stems and roots of plants, eats root crops. Especially dangerous is the bear for seedlings. So, on the plots infected with this dangerous pest, from the plants planted from the evening, the third part may die by morning.
On how to deal with a bear in the garden,said and written a lot. It can be exterminated by chemical means. To do this, often use ready-made granulated lures "Medotox", "Phenaxin plus", "Grizzly", which are introduced into the soil according to the instructions. They are low in toxicity and gradually decompose in the ground, without harming crops. These drugs are dangerous only for the bear and its larvae: eating granules, pests die within a few hours. However, in the case of using these remedies, protection against a bear is guaranteed only for several weeks. Is it possible to get rid of the pest for a longer period?
A well-known popular way of fighting the bear,which allows you to forget about it for the whole season, consists in digging out at the site in the end of September one or more trap pits with a depth of about 50 cm - they should be covered with a film and filled with manure. Adult individuals will crawl into these pits for wintering. With the onset of frost, manure must be scattered around the site, and the bear will perish. Of course, in the spring pests can move from other sites, but their number will be much less.
The following advice on how to deal with(it is necessary to take 50 g of any washing powder, 10 g of laundry soap per bucket of water), about a liter or two in each of them. The pest will die right in the hole or in a minute or two it will come to the surface. Effective and a mixture of water with kerosene (per 10 liters of water - 100 ml). Many truck farmers in response to the question of how to deal with the bear, give advice to use self-made traps. So, the bear likes the smells of beer, raw potatoes, lean oil. Banks or bottles with a small amount of bait dig in the aisles just below the ground level. In the morning they are examined and destroyed found pests.
The following recommendation on how tofight with a bear, will be this: you can fence your land or a greenhouse around the perimeter slate sheets or dig a groove, filling them with rubble (sand). However, this method can only help in the fight against the larvae of the bear, since adult individuals can easily fly over the fence. More effective will be the planting around the perimeter of the site or individual beds of marigolds, chrysanthemums or garlic - their scent repels pests. It should also periodically loosen the aisles - this will help destroy the larvae of the bear.
Some landowners before the landingseedlings make for each plant an individual protective structure from the bear - cylinders made of foil, plastic bottles, pieces of irrigation hose or stems of reeds. Others, when answering the question of how to deal with a bear, are advised to tie a seedling's stalk with rags of thick cloth measuring 15 by 8 cm - so that part of it is in the ground, and a part - at the top. The bear can not eat such plants, and the fabric rotates over the summer without causing any harm.
Talking about how to deal with the bear onsome gardeners talk about the effectiveness of old, time-tested funds - boiled grain of wheat, corn, millet or barley mixed with sunflower oil and carbofos or metaphos. However, this method is the most harmful, since chemicals remain in the soil, and birds can also be poisoned by such a bait. Therefore, it is more reasonable to use safer means to fight the bear. In general, in order to get rid of this dangerous pest, you should apply several methods - so you can count on a long-term result.
