The vegetable monster is a bear - it bites and devours everything!

The average citizen, who does not have a summer cottage, relatives in the village, and is not at all interested in how tomatoes grow - on a tree, or they are digged out of the earth - terribly surprised, even frightened if to show him this strange creature - a bear .

It is not excluded that he will not even believe in his terrestrial origin, having decided that the first contact took place, and the Martians arrived with an unfriendly visit. And having learned that this insect is an ordinary inhabitant of our vegetable gardens, most likely, it will not believe this information. And yet this is really so. This monster is almost affectionately called "bear", and biologists refer it to orthopteran insects. Yes, the bear is not a beast at all, as one might think, looking at the hairy trunk. Medvedka is an insect. Bites and can eat alive anyone who approaches her. And its dimensions can reach even 10 centimeters. Is not the monster from the horror film?

Medvedka is an underground inhabitant, she will not come to the surface by herself. So, not only inveterate townspeople, but even some truck farmers can never see this mole live, encountering only destructive traces of his activities.

But the first impression of a kind of bear is almost the same for everyone - fear and disgust. It looks extremely unattractive, if not ugly, and it's unclear why she got such a name - a bear. It bites, it must be painful, otherwise you can not think about looking at the powerful jaws. They need it to gnaw through the tunnels, and also to deal with the prey that was met under the ground. And prey for the bear is almost everything, from plants to insect relatives. From Latin its name is translated "cricket-mole", and it can actually roll solo concerts at night, notifying relatives about their location.

On the question of whether the bear is biting, entomologists-lovers do not give a direct answer, referring to the fact that no cases of bites have been recorded so far. But when you look at the insect covered with a hard coat, no one has a shadow of a doubt that if it still does not bite anybody, it's only because no one in her right mind has given her such a chance.

This insect is a long-liver, able to live about five years, which, in fact, is not typical for insects. Moreover, she is also an excellent swimmer, can fly and runs very fast. Ogorodniki can not choose which of the insects causes more harm: the Colorado beetle, the locust or the bear. Whether she bites or not - it's the tenth thing, but she is able to harvest a very high quality, which can not positively affect the relationship between the bear and the land owners. They fight it with the help of poisons, put traps on it, fill its burrows with boiling water and even try to scare it off with ultrasound. But not everyone is keen to destroy this underground cricket, called the "bear". Whether it bites or not - for many it's not so important.

Desperate to withdraw from the garden of the bear, the farmer will find out wildly that there are enthusiasts who are trying not to destroy, but, on the contrary, to create all conditions for the life and reproduction of this insect. From medvedok make a drug that helps from tuberculosis and seems to even treat cancer. The basis for the medication is an adult insect bear. Does the price bite him? In principle, not very much, since "raw materials" can be procured independently, by simply catching insects. They are dried, powdered, mixed with honey and insisted a day in the dark. That's the whole trick. Only to take the medicine is still better after consulting a doctor.