How to get rid of a bear in the garden

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• How to deal with a bear
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• Is it possible to get rid of the bear forever

The harm that the bear inflicts on the garden can be safely compared to a locust infestation, when the entire crop is destroyed in a short time in vast territories, if nothing is done. In the article we will look at ways to deal with this garden pest..

Even if this original-looking creature just appeared in the garden, you should sound the alarm. Soon the entire site will be in small holes – these are the moves of the bear.

Unlike the beetle, the bear, moving underground in search of tasty tuberous vegetables, “tries” everything that comes across on the way. Therefore, young seedlings and other plantings also suffer. With sad humor, you can add that if there are no vegetables in the garden, then nothing threatens the weeds – she does not eat them. Conclusion – the bear lives only where people invest their labor. Therefore, only the owner of the site can get rid of it …

In order to understand how to deal with it, you should know the structure of the insect itself. Medvedka, unlike a beetle or its larvae, cannot be crushed with your fingers. Its body is rigid, its back is covered with a shell, from which its second name comes from – earth crayfish. And thanks to its powerful wings, it has the ability to fly, so it is difficult to catch it with your hands..

Medvedka digs passages at a small distance from the surface, sufficient to get to the roots of young shoots and the planted seed material – potatoes. But in the case of a very cold winter, its vertical passages can reach a meter in depth. These individuals are very thermophilic, therefore, it is most convenient to deal with them from the beginning of spring. Moreover, it was at this time that she lays eggs, of which about 300 young insects will subsequently appear.

How to deal with a bear

Unfortunately, in recent years, the agricultural industry has somewhat relaxed its attitude towards the requirements for tillage. After harvesting, the land is plowed to an insufficient depth, and early plowing will only slightly disturb the burrows already formed for wintering. In addition, insects still have time, which allows them to make new shelters and winter comfortably at a safe distance from the cold surface..

If the soil is cultivated to a sufficient depth during the first frost, then young insects that cannot yet dig in to a great depth will find themselves in the frost and die. A large number of adults will remain to winter. They will have to fight in winter, from early spring, and again until the very cold.

After the autumn loosening of the soil, disturbed insects begin to look for food and shelter for themselves. Shallow holes should be dug throughout the site and manure should be applied there. The insects that survived the plowing will find salvation there. When frost comes, it is necessary to scatter the manure from the holes in the garden. They will not be able to dig back in – they will freeze. In the same holes, you can put the next “portion” of manure, and not touch it until spring. These traps should be incinerated with any flammable liquid before preparing the soil for planting. There will be much fewer pests, but this cannot be stopped.

The remaining individuals will begin to travel underground in search of delicious food. By this time, gardeners are planting seeds, seedlings and potatoes..

If the fight with the bear is only at the initial stage, then when planting it is worth using chemicals. They will greatly help to preserve the planting material, but we cannot stop there either. One insect will be poisoned, the other will bypass the unpleasant smell, and the third, after its disappearance, will nevertheless take over the plant. Therefore, you should not give up the folk methods of getting rid of earth cancer, together with poisons.

What are the most effective means for dealing with a bear

There are not so many chemical preparations for getting rid of the bear. Each of them has a separate effect. “Prestige”, “Masterpiece” and “Aktara” are used for processing seed material and seedlings. Seed potatoes are sprayed before planting, and the roots of the seedlings are soaked before planting in open ground. This method protects plantings not only from the bear, but also from the Colorado potato beetle, for which the leaves of the plant treated with this drug are deadly.

Since the poisonous substance gradually moves from the root to the stems and leaves of the plant, they will soon become safe for the bear. Therefore, in the holes intended for potatoes and seedlings, you should put poisonous baits or prepare them yourself from the preparation “Bi-58”. It is added to the boiled grain (so as not to germinate), insisted for 12 hours and laid out in holes with potatoes and seedlings. Due to the fact that the poison “Bi-58” has an unpleasant smell, insects bypass them, and those that try – die.

Ultrasonic scarers allow you to keep the bear at a certain distance from the area that makes an unpleasant sound. But they won’t go far. In order to achieve success, it is advisable to use this method together with your neighbors. Otherwise, as soon as the mechanism fails for some reason, the liberated area will immediately be attacked. Until the owner notices a breakdown, the crop will be destroyed..

Is it possible to get rid of the bear forever

Despite the fact that insects will die from the drug, this procedure alone will not help get rid of the “bear” population completely. Therefore, each time the row spacings are loosened to kill weeds, the drug is again added to the soil. For this, the pickled grains must be scattered over the entire area just before loosening. After processing the site, all the grains will be covered with earth and are easily accessible for disturbed insects.

In order to get rid of the bear completely, and not only to save the harvest this year, insects must be caught throughout the season. For this, some folk methods are suitable:

1. Trapping insects by hand. Wide boards, pieces of plywood and slate are laid out on the site – everything that is at hand. On an area previously flooded with water, cover the ground with these objects and press a little. A day later, under the boards, bears will “bask”. Not realizing that the top is not soil, but a foreign object, they will make moves right on the surface of the earth. She will also run away along these moves. It remains only to quickly catch it. The board can be put in place and moved to another.
2. Bait with alcoholic and sweet. Between the beds of potatoes, you can make traps from bottles with a small amount of kvass or beer (100 g). It is necessary to tie the neck with a bandage and dig in so that the neck is raised. The insect will easily gnaw through the bandage and get inside, where it smells very tasty. It cannot get out back through the neck of the bottle. The trap will be complete in a week. Insects caught in it should be destroyed, and the bait trap should be put in place.
3. Put some honey in jars (0.5 l) and cut plastic bottles dug in at ground level. After hitting the bottom, the pest cannot get out along the sliding sweet walls.

4. Pour water diluted with kerosene, washing powder or soap into the bear’s passages from the watering can. The insect will run out of another turn. Therefore, in this case, skill is needed to catch it..

5. Dig in steel rods around the perimeter of a site densely populated with insects. Pull the fishing line between them and hang CD / DVD discs from it. The vibration effect, which occurs when the disk is spinning, repels insects. But they do not go far, only to a certain distance, where the annoying noise does not bother her. But this method is also complicated. A “web” made of fishing line will make it difficult to move around the garden when processing it.

Traditional methods are aimed more at scaring away and exterminating only specific individuals. Therefore, in large areas, all terms and rules for soil cultivation should be observed. If you deal with insects in a complex all year round together with neighboring areas, then you can get rid of them forever.