Each gardener and gardener puts a lot of labor and care into their plantings. Simultaneously with planting, they enter into the fight against agricultural pests. Just rodents, causing tremendous damage to agriculture, are hamsters or karbyshi. How to deal with them? This is exactly what will be discussed in this article.
Who are karyshy?
Karbysh is an ordinary hamster. It is the largest representative of the hamster subfamily. The body length of an adult animal can reach 34 cm, tail 8 cm. The average body weight of the animal is 700 g.
The animal has a soft and thick pile. The color of the skin is bright and contrasting. Karbysh from above can have a reddish-brown color, and the belly is black. On the sides in front there are two bright spots separated by black fur. Light spots can occur on the sides of the animal’s head and behind the ears. In nature, there are absolutely black hamsters.
The face of the carbysh has a moderate length. The tail is extended at the base and tapers towards the end. It is all covered with hard and short hairs. The ears are short, the brush and feet have a wide base. Claws are well defined on the fingers.
An ordinary hamster is characterized by a wild and evil temper, often turning into aggression. Therefore, karyshy can also bite each other. How to deal with them? The best remedy for these animals is considered a trap.
After a bite of a hamster, lacerations remain on the body, which can be dangerous for both a person and a pet. These rodents are the distributors of more than 30 types of deadly diseases for humans.
Habitat
Karbysh are omnivorous. They like to eat greens, cereals, legumes. Do not pass onions and roots. In winter, the beast harvests up to 15 kg of stock. Does not sleep in winter. It can crawl to the surface at a temperature of -20 ° C.
To his liking, karbysh is similar to a rat and can rush at people. It does not tolerate summer heat. Able to die from sunlight. He loves ponds. Hamsters do not live in a herd. One by one dig holes at a certain distance from each other.
The animal lives mainly in the forest-steppe and steppe. Prefers floodplain meadows and wetlands.
Most often, the animal settles in cultivated areas, parks, rice fields, gardens, kitchen gardens and forest belts. It settles more on dense soils and less often on loose and sandy lands.
The lifestyle is twilight, nocturnal. The rodent spends all day in a hole. The hamster wears winter supplies in cheek pouches, which hold about 46 g of grain. The hamster divides grain crops in pantries by species. They are not afraid of humans and often live in the vicinity of residential houses. How to deal with them in order to prevent their reproduction? This is the question people ask themselves whose gardens and orchards have been affected by pests.
Breeding
All rodents are especially prolific. Karbysh is no exception. Common hamsters breed in March and April. In season, the female can bring about three broods. Each time 8-15 cubs are born. How to deal with them? Karbysh without timely control measures will not leave a trace of crops in the garden. Therefore, immediate action is required.
What does a karbysh hole look like?
Nora karysh digs deep and complex. In length, it reaches about eight meters and more than one and a half meters in depth. From time to time it settles in holes where gophers used to live. A standard burrow of an ordinary hamster can have up to 5 exits, numerous pantries and a nesting chamber. In the pantries, the animal stores its supplies. When the breeding season passes, the animal rump returns to a lonely lifestyle. So how do you get rid of uninvited guests?
Karbysh in the garden
The garden hamster causes great harm. His activity in the garden begins in the seedlings. At this time, karibysh (animal), as if with scissors, shears the seedlings of cabbage, pumpkin, cucumber, carrot, onion.
In the summer, the animal destroys the fruits of zucchini, carrots, pumpkins, beets. Loves rodent onions and garlic. Do not give up squash and potatoes. Gnaws tubers and roots from plants. At this time, the pest not only destroys crops, but also stores potatoes, carrots, seeds for the winter.
Karbysh is very voracious, and he does significant harm in the garden. All that he can’t eat, takes with him. Gardeners are forced to fight it constantly.
Methods of struggle
If a hamster has settled on the site, then all sorts of measures to combat it should be immediately taken. First of all, traps can be placed on the animal and how to fix them. Otherwise, the animal will go into the hole along with the trap.
The most popular method of fighting a hamster is water, which is used to flood an animal’s hole. The water in the rodent's house needs to be poured a lot. Pour liquid until the animal begins to choke and crawl out. This method of pest control has its drawbacks. Nora the hamster has more than one way out. To etch the animal out of the hole, the remaining exits should be closed. The difficulty lies in the fact that the underground passages of the dwelling can stretch for several meters, and the exit can be on someone else's site.
One way to control pests is poison from rodents. Means for carbohydrates with a toxic substance are placed next to the burrow of the animal. From time to time, poisonous "feeders" replenish.
In the fight against karbysh, a dog can come to the rescue. She is the enemy of a rodent. A rat-cat is capable of catching a beast. She is specially trained in such a hunt and, unlike a dog, will not do much harm to the garden.
It will help to remove rodents from the site of the ultrasonic repeller. The device emits specific mechanical and sound waves that are unpleasant for animals, so when they hear them, they leave the site.
If karbysh is wound up on the garden plot, then all fruit trees should be fenced with a metal mesh, since animals can damage the bark, and in some cases the tree is completely destroyed.
Chemicals for rodents
If a forest hamster-karbysh visited a summer cottage, then you can remove it by using poison from rodents, which should be decomposed near the home. The most popular chemicals are:
- "Storm". Poison acts quickly and effectively. It has a mummifying property. It does not allow the animal’s corpse to decompose and excludes the appearance of an unpleasant odor.
- Cleratus. Within 24 hours, causes the death of a rodent. Reduces blood coagulation and causes internal bleeding.
- Kilrath. It acts on the pest for a week. It has a bitter taste, so experts advise mixing the drug with grain, porridge, mashed potatoes and other baits.
- Varat. Pellet bait. Provides 100% eaten by the animal. Valid for 3-6 days.
- Mortorat. Mummifying lure. Available in soft briquettes. Valid for 3-4 days. Contains the active ingredient brodifacum.
- "The final". It is made in solid briquettes. Enriched with flavors, which is why rodents eat it with pleasure. It has water repellent properties. Convenient for use in humid places and at low temperatures.
- "Rat death." It is based on brodifacum. Causes bleeding and asthma attacks. The death of a rodent occurs on the 5-8th day.
The poison is laid out in the holes of karyshys. Bait feeders replenish from time to time.
Mechanical devices
In the fight against pests, mechanical devices will not be superfluous. A trap for karybysh should be taken with an arc, designed to catch a small fur-bearing animal.
The charged device is located at the horizontal entrance to the animal’s dwelling. Since the karysh is capable of dragging a trap, it should be firmly fixed to the ground.
Some people fight rodents with traps similar to mousetraps, only large in size. This trap, like the previous one, should be fixed. To make the animal fall into the trap faster, you can pour water into the hole. In this case, the hamster will jump out and immediately fall into the trap.
Homemade traps are used to capture the animal. For its manufacture, take a box with a lid that fits snugly. Two rubber bands are attached to the lid. They will press her. A spacer or stick is placed under the lid. Inside the box put the bait. The rodent runs into the box and eats the bait. At this time, the lid closes behind him. Instead of a box it is more expedient to use a metal cage. Traps and traps are the best remedies for hamsters. With them, the question of how to remove karbyshey will be solved in a short time.
Ultrasonic Repellers
Another effective tool that helps to remove karibysh from the site is a rodent repeller. This method of pest control is the most humane and safe. The device emits high-frequency ultrasonic waves, the frequency of which changes at a speed of 60 times per second. For rodents, the sound they make becomes unbearable, and they try to move to another territory without a hostile sound signal. The following devices are especially popular:
- "Typhoon". It can be used in areas up to 220 m. It operates with a wide sound beam. It works in two modes: silent and sound. The first is used in residential premises, the second acts more efficiently and is used where people do not live.
- "Hail". It runs silently. It emits sound and ultrasonic waves at the same time. There is a built-in flickering beam.
- "Electrocat". The rodent repeller affects not only sound waves, but also light flashes. There is a special annoying signal that most effectively affects rodents.
Some gardeners, in order to achieve the best results in the fight against underground pests, bury an ultrasonic device in the ground and turn it on. According to them, karybysh leave the garden plot in a short time.
Preventive measures
Undoubtedly, karbysh (how to get rid of a pest, was described above) does more harm than good. Therefore, if all of the above methods were ineffective, and the animal decided to return to the site, then gardeners advise temporarily to refrain from planting so that the animal has nothing to eat.
Even a rodent will not be allowed to exist on the site of a dog or cat. They need to be started on an ongoing basis, then there will be no memory left from the troubles caused by karbysh.