How to effectively deal with a bear in the garden

What is a bear

The bear insect also has other names known to the people. She is a crayfish, and a cabbage, and a top. But whatever you call it, it remains so disgusting and harmful to the crop. Bears prefer to live and feed in moist soil. They will especially appreciate humus and manure, with which some fertilize the land for greater fertility. This insect can grow up to six to seven centimeters in length.

In addition, it has a fairly strong shell and small wings. For more efficient digging of the ground, nature has endowed the cabbage with powerful jaws and well-developed front paws. They can pull out deep passages that can reach one hundred and twenty centimeters in length. At the end of such a tunnel, as a rule, there is a small depression designed to wait out the winter.

In addition to vertical passages, bears also dig horizontal tunnels that pass through the roots of plants. They feed in this way and destroy many cultures. The main food sources for such an insect are potatoes, onions, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage. She also does not disdain some flowers too. On average, an ordinary bear can spoil the roots of ten to fifteen plants per day. And this is only harm from one insect.

In general, the bears are very adaptable. They understand very well when danger comes with the arrival of cold. Then they burrow into their deep holes until better times.

Fighting the pest using folk methods

As soon as you notice the first signs of the appearance of a bear on your site, you need to immediately get rid of it. To begin with, in order to calculate the presence of this pest on your ground, you need to plow the entire garden or only the necessary areas in early spring. The depth should be at least fifteen centimeters. In the fall, it will also be useful to plow the whole garden, only the depth will be greater than in the spring. In this simple way, you can destroy all the tunnels dug by the cabbage, and, possibly, destroy the larvae.

Thanks to proven folk methods, you will learn how to get a bear out of the garden. The most effective and popular methods:

1. extermination of the bear separately when you find them in the garden. For bait, you can use improvised products: compote, honey, spoiled jam. Just leave a few cans with the contents on the territory of your summer cottage or garden, and in the morning you can find pests that have got into them;
2. you can try to poison insects. Choose the most suitable option for you (washing powder, kerosene solution, poisonous chlorophos), dilute with water and pour a bear into the holes;
3. If it is more convenient for you to deal with the pest in early spring, then you can try the next option. Empty beds are covered with sheets of plywood, boards.This becomes a real bait because the cabbage fish climb there to warm themselves. Later, you destroy all the creeping insects. Docks can be sprinkled with kerosene and spread between plant beds. This will scare off other bears;
4. if it is more convenient for you to fight the pest in the fall, you can dig a small hole, cover it with polyethylene and sprinkle some manure there. As a rule, bears love such hot spots for wintering. In the spring it will be possible to destroy them all at once;
5. there is another way with digging holes. You can dig small holes throughout the area. The main thing is to do this somewhere in the beginning, mid-May. Bears will climb into them in order to lay aside more of their larvae for posterity. Thus, you can again get rid of both adults and larvae by simply scorching the pits;
6. eggshells can be collected throughout the year. It won't be difficult. Then you need to take it, grind it. And after mixing a little with vegetable oil, pests are poured into the burrows. You can also sprinkle seedlings with such a mixture in the spring so that the cabbage can not touch future plants. She does not like the sharp corners of the shell.

Fighting the bear will generally be superfluous and not needed if you plant a plant such as marigolds around the entire vegetable garden or garden. It will be both pleasing to the eye and repelling a harmful insect. In addition, the bear does not like loud noise. It will be good if there is a windmill on your site or on a neighboring site. Pungent odors of garlic, calendula, for example, can scare away cabbage.

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Chemical treatment

If for some reason it was not possible to get rid of the pest with the help of folk remedies, then you can find out more about how to deal with the bear with chemical treatment. But they should be used only in hopeless situations when other methods have not helped for more than three years. Since chemicals are harmful and poisonous, they must be handled with extreme caution, strictly according to the instructions. Do not forget about the precautions.

Such drugs of strong and reliable action include "Thunder" and "Phenoxin plus". They are sold in specialized stores in the form of granules. Used as insect bait. They have properties that are edible for them, so the bears love to feast on them.

Instructions are included with each package of the drug. But there is a general instruction that describes how to get rid of the bear. The aforementioned granules with poison should be placed in those places where, in your opinion, the bear is found. They can also be placed in their burrows: three to four pieces per tunnel. So that other animals and insects do not eat the granules, they must be sprinkled with a small amount of earth. Other effective drugs include Grizzly, Bankol, Medvegon and Medvetox. But they are all equally toxic, as they are pesticides.

How to protect plants

There are many other ways how to deal with a bear, and, thereby, protect plants from this misfortune. Before digging deep into a piece of land in the fall, it is worth pouring soapy water over it, which could remain after stripping or washing dishes. This will scare the bear away.

As soon as you find the nest, the shelter of this parasite, urgently destroy it, do not hesitate. Because there is one hundred percent guarantee that the bear will return there. You can help your plants and water. Many experienced gardeners pour boiling water over the bear's mink. You can also push the water hose as deep as possible into the pest's tunnel and turn on the pressure at full power. This stream will simply wash all the cabbage cabbage.

Many people know the fact that bears, as a rule, dig their tunnels and tunnels at a depth of two to three centimeters in order to be closer to the roots of plants and feed on them. If the roots are shielded with a film, the pest will bypass it, since it will not find anything edible in it.Thus, the seedlings and plants will be fenced off, nothing will interfere with them in order to grow and develop correctly, even despite the bear.

Such film rings are a very convenient and practical tool in the fight against pests. In the fall, you can safely remove it. Since the film does not deteriorate, it can be cleaned and disinfected. After the steps taken, you can use it next year or another time when insects appear. The main advantage of such a protective film is that there is no need to use chemicals. Thus, the plants grow environmentally friendly.

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