How to deal with the bear

Medvedka and the fight against it - frequent topics in specialized publications and on horticultural forums. Owners of vegetable gardens, this pest delivers a lot of trouble: 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.

About how to deal with the 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, allowing you to forget about it for the entire season, is to dig out one or more trap pits at a depth of about 50 cm at the end of September - 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 bears will die. 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 the bear will be: you can pour a soap solution into the found moves (take a bucket of water 50 g of any washing powder, 10 grams of laundry soap), 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 by the found pests.

The following recommendation on how to deal with the bear will be: you can fence your land or a greenhouse around the perimeter with slate sheets or dig out grooves, filling them with rubble (sand). However, this method can only help in the fight against the larvae of the bear, as adults can fly over the fence easily. 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 owners of the plots before planting seedlings make for each plant an individual protective structure from the bear - cylinders made of foil, plastic bottles, stretches of watering hose or stems of reeds. Others, when answering the question of how to deal with a bear, are recommended 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 on the site, some gardeners talk about the effectiveness of old, time-tested funds - boiled wheat, corn, millet or barley mixed with sunflower oil and carbofos or metaphos. However, this method is the most harmful, since chemical substances 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 use several methods - so you can count on a long-term result.