Medvedka, or earthen crab - it's just the scourge of gardens! This pest is worse than the Colorado potato beetle! The insect mercilessly destroys root crops and tubers of garden plants, cutting them with its mighty paws. How to get rid of the bear in the garden, read our article.
Earth crayfish love to devour young potato tubers, plant roots, and also pretty much spoil the roots of carrots, beets, eat the roots of cabbage, tomatoes and so on. During the mating period, they generally fly from site to site. And only an effective fight with the bear will save you from all this horror. As with any other insect, it is fought in two ways: chemical and folk. Let's consider each of them.
How to get rid of the bear in the garden
Folk methods
- Plant Turkish carnation around the entire perimeter of your garden . She just wonderful chases away a voracious pest from your site for the whole summer! Its smell is pleasant for humans, but unbearable for the bear.
- Fertilize the soil with chicken droppings. To do this, you need to scatter it with a very thin layer throughout the garden, and then dig the site. Here you can, as they say, catch two birds with one stone: process the plants and drive the bear away. Why chicken droppings? Because, unlike cow, it has a lot more ammonia!
- There is a very original way of getting rid of the bear in the garden. Yes, not from one, but immediately from a whole brood. We find small holes in the ground - holes made by the pest. We put a finger in them and guide them in a spiral in the direction of the bear’s move. After a while, we will bury ourselves in the pest's nest. This is a small compaction of the earth, whose diameter is about 3 centimeters. We take this lump and pull it out. Outwardly, it will look like a dense ball. We break it in half. What do we see inside? Lots of white testicles! Sometimes their number reaches 50 pieces! Imagine, in one fell swoop we immediately killed a whole brood brood! Now let's find out how to get rid of the bear in the garden using chemistry.
Chemical methods
- Use homemade poison baits. Take, for example, cans of canned food or cut the bottom from a plastic bottle. Pour the cooked poison there. Its composition: for 1 kilogram of any grain (oats, corn, wheat, bran, peas), add 30 grams of sunflower (unrefined) oil and 50 grams of Karbofos. Dig the baits into the ground to a depth of about 5 centimeters (or pack them according to Medvedka minks). Death will not make the pest wait long.
- Another way to get rid of the bear in the garden is approximately similar to the previous one, but still has some differences. Buy ready-made poison for the bear in the store, add it to any cooked porridge (for 1 kg of porridge add 6 g of poison). On the beds, make holes between the seedlings, bury the poison bait in them, then cover it with earth or a cardboard sheet (so that the birds do not glue). Leave a small gap so that the pest can get into the trap.