Repelling a bear from plastic bottles. Medvedka: a description of how to get rid of a bear in the garden forever. Fighting with an eggshell

Medvedka is also called the "underground knight", but, of course, not because of the "noble character" of the insect. It's just that this beetle produces the appearance of a creature chained in armor.

The same kind of insect (common bear), as in Russia, is found everywhere - from cold Norway to the sultry countries of North Africa.

Although the bear is able to live on the ground, it prefers underground shelters, and rises to the surface of the soil mainly at night. In winter, it descends to a sufficiently large depth - about 2 m.

The common bear belongs to large insects exceeding 5 cm in length. Moreover, her abdomen is several times longer than the cephalothorax. A reliable shell protects the insect's chest; in case of danger, the beetle draws its head into it. The abdomen ends with two long filiform appendages.

Medvedka is the most dangerous pest vegetable garden.

The bear has tentacles, long whiskers, and its jaws are unusually strong. All this is very important for underground life and hunting. In addition, nature has endowed this type of insect with claws - they end with the forelimbs of the bear. With their help, the insect can move quite quickly on the soil.

There are several more interesting facts which not many pay attention to. They can swim, and at a good speed, as well as fly. At night, the bears "sing", making chirring and chirping sounds.

Medvedka is a very prolific insect. The larvae hatch from eggs that the beetle lays underground. There can be several hundred eggs in one nest. The larva of the bear resembles an adult insect, only its color is grayish.

With the advent of the bear, seedlings in the beds begin to wither and young shoots die.

Why is a bear dangerous? Its powerful jaws are perfectly adapted to bite into vegetables. If this pest appeared in the garden, you will almost certainly lose the harvest of root crops: carrots, beets, radishes. Medvedka will destroy potatoes and cucumbers if the latter are on the ground. A delicacy for her are turnip and cabbage.

And also a large and strong beetle is able to gnaw the roots of shrubs and trees, lime bulbous flowers. Therefore, gardeners perceive the bear as their worst enemy and are doing their best to get rid of it.

What does a bear eat

Medvedka is an insect from the superfamily of crickets.

Why does a person strive to get rid of the bear on his own as soon as possible? suburban area? The insect is very greedy. It feeds not only on earthworms, larvae and small insects, but also on plant foods, causing considerable damage to cultural plantings.

What plants are afraid of this insect

Medvedka is distinguished by polyphagous and voracity.

First of all, root crops suffer from the bear. The gardener may lose the harvest of carrots, beets. The beetle harms potatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and cabbage, strawberries and strawberries, melons and watermelons, as well as crops and even flowers.

How to get rid of a bear in the garden: folk remedies

The fact that bears appeared in the garden, the owner finds out in the spring, when the earth warms up. And in May, these pests become especially active. Their presence is indicated by mounds of lumps of earth that appear in the beds.

Medvedka reaches a length of 6 cm and has a rigid body with wings.

Recently, a person has been trying to get rid of pests on the site, using not chemical, but proven for centuries folk remedies. This makes it possible to subsequently grow an environmentally friendly crop.

We use soapy water

One of the simplest and most effective ways to deal with a bear is a soapy solution. It can be used if a nest with larvae is found. A bucket of water will require 50-60 g of washing powder and a piece of laundry soap, grated on a coarse grater. The solution is poured "with a margin" so that it destroys not only the larvae, but also adult insects, including those hiding in underground passages.

Glass jar trap

If there are few insects on the site, traps can be used. For this, glass jars of 0.5 l or plastic containers are suitable. Of course, in such a trap, you need to put a bait. Best of all, baits such as vegetable oil (it is advisable to add karbofos to it), honey and, in particular, beer, act on the bear. The voracious insect likes it just like the smell of valerian to a cat. Medvedka leaves her underground passage, and moves to the jar, but cannot get back along the slippery walls. It is removed along with the trap and destroyed.

Method using honey

A jar is buried in the ground, the bottom of which is smeared with honey. From above, the jar is covered with something dense, for example, a sheet of iron, a piece of slate, and then sprinkled with grass, straw. Medvedka is attracted by the smell of honey, so it is better to cover the walls of the jar with a thin layer of about a third, so the aroma will be stronger. It is imperative to leave a crack into which the beetle could crawl. Back Medvedka will not be able to get out. The prisoner can be obtained, it is possible that she will not be alone.

Beer trap for bear

In this case, a jar is also buried in the ground at a slight slope, and it is also covered with a piece of board, thick cardboard. As bait, it is best to use fresh beer, about a glass. The traps are checked after a few days.

Fighting with an eggshell

This method is useful for plants and detrimental to bears. During the winter, you can hoard eggshells. In the spring, it is dried, ground into powder and “fried” in a pan along with sunflower oil. This mixture is added to the beds - directly into the grooves - planting plants. The shell will serve as a supplier of mineral substances for seedlings, and the beetles, having "feasted" on the egg-oil mixture, will die.

Manure trap against insects

A very simple and effective method, it is used when there are a lot of bears on the site. You will need to dig small holes and lay fresh manure in them. It is difficult to think of something more attractive for a female who is looking for a place to lay her eggs. After 2-3 weeks, the traps are freed from manure with a shovel, the bear and eggs are burned.

We use pine needles to get rid of pests

The smell of pine needles repels malicious pests.

The smell of pine needles scares away the bear. You can protect vegetable beds by tearing grooves along their perimeter and pouring needles into them.

How to build windmills to fight the bear

Very interesting, unusual and effective way. You will need several iron pipes, the height of which can reach 3 m. They are installed in the garden, and metal propellers are placed on top. Vibration and noise force the bear to leave the chosen area.

We plant marigolds in the garden

Marigolds are a beautiful fight with a bear.

Another way to protect plants is to plant flowers in the aisles, known as "marigolds". So you can kill two birds with one stone. Elegant flowers will enliven the site, and the beds will get decorative look, and the bears will not approach the vegetables.

Method of dealing with onion peel

Effective for combating Medvedka and onion peel. After the winter season, there may be a lot of it. The husk is poured with a bucket of water, and after a week the infusion is filtered. Then it is diluted with water in a ratio of 1:5.

Wet soil after rain or watering is shed with infusion of onion peel.

Rotten fish - an unpleasant but effective method

The smell of rotten fish is not pleasant to a person and a bear too. You can use any fish waste - heads, entrails, fins. When planting tomatoes, cabbage and other seedlings - they are laid in holes, when planting seeds - they are added dropwise around the perimeter of the beds. Medvedka avoid such places.

We use regular vegetable oil

You can also use sunflower oil to fill the passages of pests. You will need 1 tablespoon per 3 liter jar of water.

Vegetable oil will help rid the site of pests.

Surprisingly, some cats are great at catching bears and feasting on them. So if the family has pets, they can help the owners in the fight against harmful insects.

If there is a bear on the site, digging the earth helps.

1. First, it allows you to detect nests. They are collected in a bucket or bag, carried away and destroyed.
2. Secondly, digging in anticipation of cold weather leads to the fact that the bears, already lethargic and not showing activity, are close to the surface of the earth and die in winter from frost.

Pesticides that kill pests

Reliable and proven way.

The pesticides that the industry produces today are a reliable way to get rid of the bear and other pests.

1. Medvetoks- the name says about the fight against which insects the drug is intended. A granular product with a high level of toxicity, has an attractive smell to beetles. Medvedka only needs to try the chemical to die.
2. Cuts- an effective tool that is convenient to use, since it does not cause harm to a person, and the granules have a bright color. They fall asleep in the passages dug by bears.
3. Grizzly- also available in the form of granules, which have neutral color. A rather toxic substance, it is better to work with it with gloves.
4. Bankol- This drug works in a special way. Medvedka is paralyzed, unable to move and dying of hunger. The product is safe for people.
5. Phenoxin plus- its smell and taste are liked by bears and other pests. A few pellets, poured into a hole dug by an insect, are enough to get rid of the problem forever.
6. Boverin- a new and well-established tool. It is harmless to people, animals and beneficial insects. But the bears are dying from him.
7. bear cub- This pesticide is used in the form of a solution. It does not have a harmful effect on plants and people, but it allows you to get rid of the bear.
8. Thunder- used in small doses. For the death of insects, 1-2 granules are enough. People with this tool should work carefully, it is toxic.

Usually, gardeners resort to pesticides if folk remedies for combating bears have not justified themselves. And it is right. To begin with, you should try the simplest tricks, and only then, if necessary, take on "heavy artillery". So there will be more chances to grow an environmentally friendly crop.

Hot, sun-warmed earth, these insects simply adore. If you mulch the beds with sawdust - this option will please the bears much less - they will move to where it is warmer.

In addition to marigolds, bears do not like some other plants. These include garlic, parsley, cilantro, and from flowers - calendula and chrysanthemums. The more of the above plants on the site, the higher the likelihood that bears will not start on it.

Seedlings that the gardener especially cherishes - for example, expensive varieties of tomatoes - can be planted in the garden directly in plastic bottles with a cut bottom.

In addition, those representatives of the animal world for whom voracious insects are food will become your allies in the fight against bears. These are birds and such frequent guests of summer cottages as hedgehogs, moles, lizards. For them, ordinary bears are a real delicacy.

Seeing this insect for the first time, summer residents, especially women, may be afraid - will it bite them? But the maximum that a bear can do is to slightly scratch human skin with its claws. Its jaws are simply not adapted to bite.

Medvedka eats everything that comes in her way.

Sometimes in areas, when favorable conditions are created, the bear can grow up to 12-15 cm.

If the sounds that the bear (song) make are recorded on a voice recorder and this recording is turned on at your dacha at night, other insects may rush to the source of the sound.

Medvedka can live up to 3.5 years.

Thus, knowing what this insect is and by what means you can fight it, you have every chance to get rid of the bear in your dacha forever.

Pests of agricultural crops are: common bear.

During the breeding season (May, June), bears appear on the surface of the earth. Near the main passage, the bears arrange a special cave nest 6x6 cm in size at a depth of 10-20 cm, compacting the soil inside it.

There they lay in groups of dark yellow eggs with a diameter of about 4-5 mm in the amount of 300-500 pcs. After 2 weeks, mobile gray larvae appear from the eggs - outwardly they look like ants. only gray color leaving the nest after the first molt in late June-early July.

Voracious larvae eat vegetable seedlings

In areas infected with a bear, it is impossible to feed plants with fresh mullein - it will attract a pest from all over the area. Diluted bird droppings, on the contrary, scare away the bear (you need to water the ground with infusion of chicken droppings in dry weather).

Marigolds sown along the boundaries of the site block the access of the bear from neighboring territories - the bear does not tolerate the smell of marigolds.

Ways to deal with a bear

1. Boil barley or buckwheat porridge, add VAFATOKS, or Regent, or Phenaksin plus, add unrefined vegetable oil to smell and attract bears - 1 tbsp per half liter of porridge, and after a while you will notice that the bear becomes smaller. The result is very good. Pea means “Medvetoks” are laid in the moves.

2. In the evening, listen to where the male bears sing, sounds like a whistle, put poisoned bait there early in the morning.3. One of the gardeners, knowing that there are bears on the site, all the seedlings of cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, planted in disposable cups without a bottom, the seedlings were saved.

4. One of their summer residents gives the following advice: “The usual compound feed from wheat or corn, I take somewhere 100 g of BI 58 for a bucket of compound feed and mix it well. After that, I scatter this mixture on the ground and after a maximum of 2 hours the result is on the face, they crawl out of the ground and die”

4. Nikolai Karpukhin from the Moscow region:
In early spring, as soon as the earth thaws, in the morning he lays out pieces of plywood, boards, and thick cardboard on still empty beds. Medvedka loves to crawl out of her minks and bask under them. In the middle of the day, Nikolai pours two liters of water and a little kerosene into a bucket and collects seedling pests from under shelters. In the summer, he places the same traps on the paths and catches the bear at the beginning of the day or in the evening.

5. In addition, Nikolai Karpukhin learned find bear nests with a laying of eggs. He recognizes them by fading plants. Usually bears gnaw them from the south or south-west side so that the leaves do not obscure the masonry. With his hands in the ground, he gropes for the bear's mink, which is a little rammed. It contains a lump of dense soil. This is the egg nest. If you carefully take it out and break it, then in the clutch there can be from 100 to 200 pieces.

6. Viktor Kravchenko from the Rostov region: He collects eggshell, and in the spring it mulches seedlings with it to protect against the bear. He does it this way. First plant and water the plants. Then it is sprinkled with a thick layer of crushed shells, and sprinkled with humus or sawdust on top. Sharp and hard fragments of the shell do not like the insect when it gets close to the seedlings.

7. Grigory Panteleev from Krasnodar: Desperate to finally defeat the bear, he found such a way to protect cabbage seedlings from it. He places the rootball of the seedling in a bag made from a piece of old women's tights. The ends of the bag are tied crosswise around the stem so that there are no gaps where the bear could crawl through. The seedlings are planted so that the top of the nylon bag protrudes 4 cm above the ground. With this method, the roots of the plants easily penetrate the fabric, the insect will not cause much harm to them, and the stem below is protected. When he coarsens over time, he ceases to attract a bear.

8. Medvedka can be caught for honey
Can be used as a trap glass jar, greased from the inside at the neck with honey. The jar is dug into the ground, the neck is closed with a board with a gap of 1-1.5 cm. After a while, the jar is taken out and the insects that have crawled into it are destroyed.

9. Windmills against the bear
Another method of dealing with the bear. It is necessary to put windmills on the site at a distance of 5-10 m from each other. For this, it is better to use iron pipes 3 meters high. Attach a light metal propeller to the top of the pipe so that it rotates easily and creates more noise. Medvedok is worried about the vibration and noise from the propellers as a natural disaster and leave the site.

10. Bears do not like the smell of calendula, garlic, parsley, fresh alder leaves.
Traps.

1. It is necessary to make a tin box with dimensions of 10x30x15 cm, dig into the ground so that the upper edge is at the level with the upper horizon of the soil. The box should be covered with a large mesh of wire, perforated rag, gauze or other similar material and sprinkled with earth. At the bottom of the box, you can put, moistening, a thin layer of earth, humus.

Spread the bottom inside with honey or unrefined sunflower oil:

2. Lay out on the plot pieces of roofing material or cardboard and press down the edges with pebbles or small stones and leave, you can put the bait. Then after a while, after a day or night, put on gloves and quickly lift the leaf, considering how agile the bear is, be ready to quickly grab it.

Medvedka is a dangerous pest that can bring tremendous harm to the crop. Apply different methods struggle and your success will be assured.

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This insect is well protected. The body is securely covered with a hard shell, like in crustaceans, which not everyone can crush with their hands, especially if the individual is large and well-fed.

Paws are short. The front ones have outgrowths, which makes them look like an oven grip - for successful burrowing to a depth of 25–30 cm. The second and third pairs of legs are covered with spikes. The abdomen ends with long processes called "cerci".

The bear also has wings, with which it flies from one area to another in search of food. The wings are protected by dense hard elytra, half the length of the entire body.

The appearance of the bear is frightening, reminiscent of a monster from a horror movie in a reduced form or an ugly cancer with a full set of predators - a large head, “pincers” and powerful jaws, reaches 10 cm in length

This infection is fertile. One female lays more than 100 eggs, which makes the fight against her very difficult. Keeping up with such rates of population reproduction is problematic. In addition, bear children grow quickly. Two weeks after laying, the eggs turn into larvae, which begin to actively eat the underground parts of plants.

Medvedka is difficult to see - she does not walk around the beds in broad daylight, but hides in the ground and crawls out only in the evening.

The insect loves loose, fertilized soil and cultivated plants, therefore it is the evil fate of caring and hardworking gardeners. Plots overgrown with weeds with undigged land are not interesting for the bear. It is uncomfortable for her to live there, and there is nothing to eat, and therefore she “gets on the wing” and flies to neat beds with young juicy seedlings.

How does it harm plants?

Medvedka does not eat weeds. In this respect, it is selective, but as far as cultivated plants, then here it is not so whimsical - it cuts, cuts and shreds everything - carrots, radishes, beets, cabbage, radishes, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, flowers ... And it does it underground, gnawing through the stem, eating the roots, leaving the plant no chances of survival.

The larvae actively help their parents. Being underground, they devour everything around them - roots, tubers, bulbs, the underground part of the plant stem. Medvedka is extremely prolific, so it remains only to imagine the scale of the garden disaster.

The damage from the bear is especially noticeable in the spring, when the seedlings are young and did not have time to acquire a powerful root system in order to survive the consequences of the pest invasion.

Signs of a pest in the garden

A number of signs testify to the fact that the bear has wound up in the garden plot.

• Small holes in the beds and mounds of loosened earth around them are like from moles, only in a reduced form.
• There may be traces of tunnels. These are earthy raised strips with lumps of earth discarded by the paws of an insect along the path of advancement.
• When watering, water goes into numerous underground passages and burrows.
• Medvedka makes a characteristic sound, similar to the chirping of a grasshopper, only louder. The garden pest "sings" in the evenings and at night. During the day, he behaves quietly, not getting out of his underground holes.
• Even yesterday, healthy and strong seedlings lie lifeless on the ground in the morning or suddenly begin to wither for no apparent reason.

How to deal with a bear

Insecticide for the fight against the bear

Medvedka is a serious enemy, it is important to know how to deal with it from the very beginning. Its destruction must be approached comprehensively and act systematically, using all means of struggle - chemical, biological, mechanical and preventive. The situation must be constantly kept under control and not relax, remembering that the enemy can fly and can come to visit from the neighboring area at any moment.

The pest sleeps in winter, burrowing into the ground in autumn. He chooses a place closer to the roots of plants, so that he has something to eat when he wakes up. That's why experienced gardeners it is advised not to miss the time of early spring and late autumn for the fight, while the insect is sleepy, inactive and has not begun to reproduce.

Insecticides

If the bear has managed to multiply, and folk remedies can no longer cope with the increased population, then insecticides cannot be dispensed with. They are effective both in the fight against adult insects and their offspring - eggs and larvae. When applied correctly chemicals capable of destroying up to 90% of the bears that have bred on the site.

The most popular and effective chemicals against the bear - Medvetoks, Phenaksin Plus, Antimedvedka, Thunder, Medvecid, Medvegon, Grizzly, Rembek.

The mode of action of these drugs is different and they are also used in different ways. Most often, the chemical is dissolved in water in desired proportion and pour the resulting aisle solution, for example, Vofatoks. There are preparations designed to treat the roots before planting to make them inedible for the pest - Aktara, Prestige, Masterpiece.

Some drugs act selectively (Phenaksin Plus), for example, only on female bears. They love it, perceive it as a delicacy. Granules of the drug (3-4 pieces each) are placed in specially prepared manure or compost heaps or in the detected pest passages.

The drug is good because it completely loses toxicity, dissolving in the soil.

Insecticide granules must be sprinkled with earth so that they are not inadvertently pecked by birds or eaten by pets. You need to work with poison in gloves and a respirator / medical mask.

• Medvetoks - poisonous bait-granules designed to fight the bear and garden ants. Reacting to the smell of granules, pests find treats. After eating the poison, the bear crawls out and dies. One pellet is enough to kill one adult. The active substance - diazinon - affects the respiratory organs, forcing the insect to leave the hole. The drug is safe for worms and does not poison the soil. Retains its toxic properties for 3-4 weeks. It, like Phenaksin +, is laid in grooves to a depth of 5 cm, covered with earth and watered.
• Grizzly- a drug similar to Medvetoks with the same active ingredient - diazinon. But, according to gardeners, it is inferior in effectiveness to Medvetoks and does not always kill the bear, but only causes her inconvenience, forcing her to crawl out. Therefore, you need to collect "sick" bears and destroy them mechanically until they come to their senses.
• Chop and Thunder- granular drugs that are toxic to the bear. The term of active action is 2 weeks.
• Bankol- an insecticide, the mode of action of which is to paralyze the pest, which is dying of hunger in two days. Not necessarily the insecticide is presented to the pest in its pure form. Sometimes it is used to prepare bait - they prepare porridge from corn or wheat with the addition of poison, for example, karbofos or metaphos - a contact insecticide.
• Bait with metaphos. Grains of wheat / corn / barley (1 kg) are boiled to a mushy state. Metaphos (50 g) and sunflower oil (30 g) are added. Ready porridge is laid out in prepared heaps of manure or humus or in the aisles when planting seedlings - to a depth of 3 cm and sprinkled with earth. Porridge consumption - 30–50 g per 1 sq. m of landing area.

Biologicals

The advantage of biological preparations is their harmlessness to warm-blooded animals and beneficial insects. But in efficiency they are inferior to chemical ones.

There are artificial and natural biological weapons against the bear.

• Artificial - products made from bioproducts. Among biological preparations, gardeners and gardeners distinguish Otmed, which has a deterrent effect. It is made from extracts of odorous plants - pepper, wormwood, garlic, milkweed, the smells of which the bear cannot stand. Boverin is a biological pesticide. It is prepared from the Boveria fungus, which is poisonous to many types of insects and mites. Seedlings and plant seedlings are treated with this preparation before planting in the ground. Boverin is safe for humans, animals and beneficial insects.
• Natural enemies of the bear. These include birds such as chicken and hoopoe. And also in the list of voluntary assistants of a person in the fight against the bear are lizards, ground beetles, ants, hedgehogs, moles.

Repellers

Biological agents with a pungent odor - rotten fish, tar, kerosene - can serve as a repeller. Calcium carbide is also used. 5 g of carbide - into the pest's mink, a little water and a bear, as the wind blows it away. Gardeners assure that forever.

There are also noise repellers, which are often made by hand. But the most advanced and promising are ultrasonic.

Ultrasonic

The principle of their operation is based on the irritation of an underground pest with ultrasound, it leaves the territory in which it became uncomfortable.

The ultrasonic repeller affects not only the bear, but also moles, shrews, hamsters and voles.

The advantages of this method of dealing with a bear is that it does not require significant physical effort from the gardener - you do not need to set traps, check them, fiddle with poisonous granules and powders.

Ultrasonic Medvedka Repeller

Manufacturers of an ultrasonic repeller promise efficiency and complete safety for plants and terrestrial inhabitants that do not pick up the high-frequency waves of the device. The device works 24 hours a day and guarantees to “drive crazy” the bear and drive it out of the area in a couple of weeks of use.

There is a wide range of ultrasonic repellers - Tornado, Grad, Mole, Antikrot, Chiston, Ecosniper, Hawk, Typhoon. They differ from each other in coverage area - up to 750 m, penetration depth - up to 3 m and power source - solar battery, conventional batteries, accumulators. Improved models have several vibration modes so that the pest cannot adapt to them. Also, a valuable characteristic of the device is the insensitivity of its ultrasonic wave to obstacles in the form of stones, walls, buildings.

If the device breaks, then nothing will prevent the pests from returning. The effect is stronger when ultrasonic repellers are located in neighboring areas.

Homemade windmills from plastic bottles and cans

To create a noise effect that causes discomfort to the bear, windmills are used. They are installed on metal 3-meter poles / pipes, which are stuck into the beds at a distance of 5-10 m from each other.

The propeller is made of light metal (beer can) so that it rotates without difficulty and makes as much noise as possible. Also, a plastic bottle is used as a rotating element. To do this, several vertical cuts are made on it, the edges of which are then bent outward to make pockets-blades. The bottle is mounted with its bottom on a metal tube - a sound resonator.

Aromatic repellers

Their main advantage is low cost and availability. Everyone can find sand, onion skins and spruce branches.

• Onion skin tincture. 900 g of onion peel are poured into 10 liters warm water and insist 5 days. Infusion is watered wells before planting seedlings. After the rain, the beds are sprayed with onion infusion. You can water the seedlings once a week with diluted onion infusion in a ratio of 1: 5.

• A mixture of sand and kerosene. 1 kg of sand per 50 ml of kerosene. This amount of the mixture is enough for 1 square. area meter. If the site is large, then this method is not very convenient, but for greenhouses and hotbeds it fits perfectly.

The method of preparing the mixture: first, the sand is poured with kerosene, then everything is thoroughly mixed and combined with 2-3 shovels of dry soil.

Method of application: the resulting mixture is scattered over the bed or brought into the furrows along the perimeter of hotbeds / greenhouses, such as a barrier. Some gardeners additionally pull a rope dipped in kerosene along the furrow in order to finally convince the bear that she has nothing to do here.

• Spruce branches, alder and aspen pegs. Medvedka does not like the smell of needles and alder. Gardeners use this in the fight against it, laying coniferous spruce branches and alder branches in the aisles of plantings. To preserve the aroma, the branches are sprinkled with earth.

Medvedka is not friendly with aspen either. They expel her, like a vampire, with the help of aspen stakes, only small ones - 30 cm long. They are driven in in those places where a cluster of bears is noticed, entirely at a distance of 100 cm from each other. The bark does not peel off, it retains the smell.

Folk remedies

For plants, ammonia water is harmless and even useful, because it is a recognized nitrogenous fertilizer

Folk remedies are simple and affordable, as well as proven effectiveness.

• Rotten fish and herring heads. The method is not the most pleasant, but, according to gardeners, it justifies itself. You need to stock up on rotten fish or herring heads, you can smoked, lightly salted. This smelly bait is used as a repeller and laid out in holes when planting seedlings and sprinkled with earth. This method is good because it does not harm the environment. On the contrary, decomposed fish serves as a bio-fertilizer for the soil. But there are also disadvantages - rotten fish can attract cats, and they will unearth it and drag it away.
• This tool acts on the bear with its pungent odor and has a deterrent effect.

Method of preparation: 2-3 dessert spoons of ammonia are required for 1 bucket of water.

Method of application: plants are watered under the root with a solution, trying not to get on the green part. One bush leaves a 500-gram jar. There is another way - with the help of pieces of cloth soaked in undiluted ammonia. The flaps are laid out in the aisles of planting potatoes, cabbage, carrots.

Disadvantages of the method: short-term effect, since ammonia- volatile substance. Frequent and repeated repetition is required - every 7 days.

• Total barrier. This method is used as a barrage obstacle in the path of the bear. The goal is to prevent her from getting to the roots of the plantings. As a barrier material, strips of metal are used, which are dug to a depth of up to 30 cm along the perimeter of a plot or garden bed. Similar "body armor" is also made from plastic bottles, thick film, roofing felt, slate.

Disadvantages of the method: the bear can not only crawl, but also fly.

Burrow flooding

The method is fast and affordable. The result is instant. A special solution is poured into the passages and holes of the pest and he comes out into the light of day.

For the preparation of "pouring" solutions based on kerosene, laundry soap and washing powder are used.

Proportions: for 1 bucket of water you need 20 g of laundry soap or 50 g of washing powder or 100 g of kerosene.

Vegetable oil is not diluted, but used in its pure form, pouring a teaspoon into the discovered hole. Then water is added to the hole from a hose. Oily liquid, falling on the body of the pest, clogs it Airways and he dies or crawls out, where he needs to be caught and crushed.

bait traps

Homemade bait traps are an effective way to deal with a formidable garden pest.

The way they are used is different. There are "trapping cans and bottles" that are buried in places where the bear is moving. Walking through his tunnel, the bear falls into a slippery trap, from which he cannot get out. To increase the percentage of pest ingress, the trap is smeared with something attractive, enticing - jam, unrefined sunflower oil, beer.

For other types of traps - "traps" - gardeners prepare special places so that the pest nests there comfortably and lays eggs.

manure traps

Biological and effective method environmentally friendly pest control. The method is based on the love of the bear for loose fertilized soil and its need for hibernation.

The manure trap is very easy to make. A 50 cm hole is dug. Manure is placed at the bottom of it, then a layer of straw comes and all this is covered with earth. The nest for the bear is ready. In order not to lose it, you need to mark it somehow, for example, with a peg.

Such traps are made at the end of summer so that the pest has time to detect them and lay eggs before falling into hibernation. On the first autumn frost, at sub-zero temperatures, the traps open, manure is scattered around the garden. Sleepy bear and her eggs die in the cold.

With beer or jam

This type of trap is used to reduce the population of a breeding bear. Both glass jars and plastic bottles are used. A half-liter jar or a plastic bottle with a cut off neck is dug into the ground up to the neck at the site of the Medvedka's "promenade". Beer / kvass is poured into a jar / bottle, filling it by a third / a quarter. From above, loosely cover with a board, leaving a small gap so that the pest can climb inside.

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After the trap is set, the gardener's task is to regularly check it for prey.

A sweet trap is made in a similar way, using honey or jam as bait. They coat the walls of the trap from the inside.

Prevention of appearance and protection of plants during planting

In order to deprive the bear of its habitat and wintering, it is enough just to remove dry leaves and branches from the site

Considering that the bear is a very dangerous garden pest and it is difficult to achieve its complete destruction, it is important to work ahead of the curve, that is, to apply active preventive measures.

• Autumn harvesting of crop residues, dry leaves and branches.
• Late autumn deep digging destroys burrows and nests of the pest.
• Use of manure traps that are set on fire in early spring.
• Do not use fresh cow dung.
• Release chickens on the plot after harvest.
• Adding fresh chicken manure to compost heaps. The bear will not come there.
• Planting marigolds, marigolds and chrysanthemums along the beds with seedlings. Medvedka does not like their smell.

seedling protection

Damage to its root system leads to the death of a young plant. To prevent the bear from getting close to the roots, they are closed using various means.

• Rings from plastic bottles around the plant - deepen by 15 cm, leaving 2 cm above the ground.
• A cover made of nylon stockings - put on the roots while they are small.
• Peat / paper cups - decompose in the ground when the plant gets stronger and the bear is no longer afraid of it.

This animal, hated by any gardener, belongs to the family of insects of the order Orthoptera - the closest relative of the locust, behaves the same way - they are found wherever you want to grow something from vegetables, berries, flowers.

Medvedki have an oblong dark brown body 5-8 cm long and about 1-1.5 cm wide: a small cephalothorax and a significant spindle-shaped abdomen with filiform appendages at the end (cerci).

The body is covered with a protective shell, under which the bear hides its head in case of a threat. She has clearly distinguishable compound (like a fly) eyes, long whiskers and two pairs of tentacles. Mouth apparatus gnawing type.

This is what a bear looks like

The forelimbs are designed for tearing and raking the earth. Adult pests have developed scaly wings and are able to fly several meters.

Medvedka digs passages in the surface layers of the earth, and along the way gnaws all the succulent rhizomes, root crops, young roots, which is why it is sometimes called the ground locust. It especially harms seedlings in spring - it destroys tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, potatoes, gnaws the roots of fruit seedlings.

Very often you can come across moves from a bear - a hole in the ground with a diameter of 3-4 cm. At a depth of about 15 cm, you can find an egg-laying - a small chamber, the size of a fist. Eggs are laid by 100-300 pieces in spring.

Medvedka is very thermophilic, therefore she lays eggs only in those areas that are well warmed up by the sun. By winter, it goes to the depth, breaking the network of vertical passages - it does not tolerate frost, it already falls into hibernation below zero.

During the winter, despite the high fertility of the bear, not everyone survives, only those who managed to find non-freezing places - beds with good shelter or dung heaps.

Cucumbers died from a bear - sudden wilting

Given this lifestyle of the pest, it is possible to conduct a targeted fight. By the way, in some regions, in particular in the Kuban, a bear is called a cabbage - it destroys cabbage once or twice.

Fighting Medvedka in autumn

In autumn, after digging up potatoes, beets, carrots, you need to prepare traps for the bear: dig holes or ditches, about 50 cm in diameter and depth, put 3-4 shovels of fresh manure (any) there. Top with a pile of straw.

Kapustyanka by this time are already looking for reliable shelters and the warmest places, therefore, most likely, they will lie down in dunghills (humus or compost is not good - cold).

When it freezes - in early, mid-November, you need to clear the holes, scatter manure over the beds. Pests will die from the cold, they are no longer able to find new places for wintering or re-dig in the ground.

How to deal with cabbage in spring and summer

• In the spring, as soon as the ground thaws, pests crawl out of their hiding places in search of food. They appear even before the mass vegetation of grasses, so deep digging up the garden in early spring with a pitchfork is effective. Part of disturbed burrows will freeze in spring frosts.
• Before planting the main crops, you can spill the soil (beds, paths) with diluted bird droppings. It is impossible to water the seedlings with such a solution, but it is possible 1-2 weeks before planting the seedlings - the cabbage plant does not like the smell of bird droppings. This measure is temporary, does not last long, but will temporarily scare her away from seedlings.
• When planting seedlings, we turn on the collective mind and ingenuity. We bury everything that can scare away.

Folk ways to deal with a bear

1. When planting in the hole, put a spoonful of crushed eggshell, with a spoonful of odorous (unrefined) vegetable oil - helps a little.
2. To bury smoked fish between the holes with seedlings - the smallest and driest, thoroughly smoked - it is believed that the bear does not tolerate the smell of smoked meats. In fact, most likely, this smell simply disorients her, covers the smell of young root seedlings. It makes sense to dig next to the hole or throw pieces of small fish (tulka, herring) right into the hole. The fish quickly rots, and from time to time it is necessary to put fresh batches on the beds, dropping them to a depth of 10 cm. The measure is unpleasant, but oddly enough it works.
3. Alder and aspen branches help to scare away the bear - their smell is also unpleasant for the pest. Use the branches with the bark - it releases the most essential substances. You need to stick at least a meter along the beds with seedlings and change thin branches weekly to fresh ones.
4. Beer traps: This drink attracts bears. It is necessary to use bottles with a fairly wide neck, milk bottles are suitable. Dig them in the aisles obliquely, at an angle of 45 degrees, splash beer on the bottom (no more than 1/3 of the bottle). The main thing is that the neck should be flush with the ground or slightly lower. Caught pests to fish out of the beer and destroy. Change beer at least once a week. These traps really work.
5. The smell of onions scares off the bear a little, you need about half a bucket of onion peel per 10 liters of water - this is a lot, in fact, you need to collect the husk all year round. Pour boiling water over it and leave for a day, although you can cook it on a garden stove for about 20 minutes. Then strain and dilute the resulting solution with water in a ratio of 1:4 or 1:5. Water the pronounced seedlings with a solution, but not on dry ground, but after the main watering or rain. The method actually helps little, it is offered out of hopelessness.
6. Kapustyanka does not like the smell of marigolds, these flowers have a lot of advantages, the roots scare away the bear, flowers attract pollinators, the smell of leaves scare away aphids and the Clodorad beetle. However, the method is not reliable, there is a slight reduction in pests, but it does not help to get rid of it completely.

Effective methods of dealing with the bear

There are proven ways, however, you still need to make an effort. For example, Nikolai Ivanovich Kurdyumov advises using the fact that the bear in the warm season lives only in the surface layers of the soil, does not dig deeper than 15 cm in light soil and no deeper than 10 cm in dense soil. Therefore, the technical way to fight is to deepen the walls of the garden bed so that the cabbage plant does not get into it. However, we do not forget that the pest can fly from place to place, and besides, in the spring, crawling out to the surface, from a meter deep, it can dig a passage right into the garden.

The root of pepper seedlings was gnawed off by a bear

If you want to truly protect the landings, you need to do high beds with sides about 50 cm high and 15-20 cm into the ground. Really helps. The disadvantage is that the cabbage remains on the site, continues to damage vegetables that cannot be planted on high beds, as well as seedlings of fruit trees.

Cut-off jars or bottles protect vegetable seedlings

Another simple method that many gardeners practice at the stage of planting seedlings of vegetables is rings from plastic bottles. It is better to take 2-liter wide bottles, but mayonnaise buckets or plastic cups from curdled milk or sour cream are also suitable. Cut off the bottom to make a ring at least 20 cm high. And plant seedlings in it. Dig the ring so that the protection protrudes 5 cm above the ground (sometimes the bear crawls along the ground). The disadvantage is that the protection is temporary while the seedlings are young, but often this is enough until they grow up, get stronger and coarsen the roots.

The potato suffers very much from the bear, the pest mows it so that no marigolds help, but deep loosening of row spacing and hilling helps. You need to loosen at least once every two weeks, to a depth of 15 cm - this ruins the nests. In order not to make a mistake with the place where to walk with a hoe, mark the rows of potato plantings. Preparations from the Colorado potato beetle protect potatoes more reliably - prestige or prestige, but whether to use chemistry is up to you.

If you refuse to use insecticides, it remains to lure the bear out of the hole in the traditional ways of gardeners:

• Pour soapy water or water with vegetable oil into holes-burrows
• Put a cotton swab or a cloth moistened with kerosene or gasoline into the hole

Destroy the creature that jumped out (cut it with a shovel), but you need to find nests, they are next to the inlet - cabbages and their larvae need oxygen. It remains to stir up the passage and find a nest. Some try to feel it with their finger, but usually it is a little further, just rake the move with a shovel. Eggs can be burned or soaked in gasoline like Colorados.

Preparations from the bear

For the bear, insecticides from the group of organophosphorus compounds, neonicotinoids, pyrethroids are toxic (poisonous).

These chemicals are sold in garden and flower shops as solutions or suspensions for spraying flowers and vegetables, i.e. preparation of an aqueous solution. But there are special preparations for the bear - with the same active ingredients added to the bait, that is, in finished form, it all looks like cat food, only in colored shades (usually greenish).

Ready-made poisons for the bear in granules have an attractive taste and smell for pests:

Phenaksin plus Rubit granules- nothing more than karbofos (organophosphorus compounds), the application rate is 100g / 10 m2, to a depth of 2-5 cm. This remedy causes the death of a bear when eaten for 3 hours, the dressing lasts up to 20 days, it is not phytotoxic. Analogues: Alatar, Antiklesch, Inta-Ts-M, Iskra M, Fufanon-Nova, Karbofos.

Medvedox - the active ingredient diazinon (organophosphorus compounds), is also quite effective, the application rate is 3 g / m2 to a depth of 3-5 cm. This drug, in addition to the bear, protects against cabbage flies, wireworms, weevil - apply to the wells when planting. The manufacturer promises protection up to 60 days. Analogues: Barguzin, Vallar, Grizzly, Thunder, Thunder-2, Zemlin, Medvegon, Ant, Flyeater, Pochin, Provotox, Terradox.

Rofatox - the active ingredient is imidacloprid (neonicotinoids), the application rate is 30 g / 10 m2, to a depth of 3-5 cm, additionally protects against wireworm. Analogs: Confidor, Iskra Zolotaya, Prestigiator, Prestige, Tanrek, etc.

It is advisable to start using any poison before planting seedlings in 7-10 days. As a rule, they do not give 100% destruction, do not lose vigilance and, if holes are found, take additional measures.

If you bought a ready-made poison from a bear, you just need to pour it into the hole when planting or into the pest's mink.

If you bought a pesticide in the form of an emulsion concentrate (in ampoules or a bottle), you need to prepare the poison from cabbage with your own hands: boil wheat (grain), barley, oats, barley or corn until half cooked (not into porridge). Cool and fill with pesticides.

Pests of agricultural crops are: common bear.

During the breeding season (May, June), bears appear on the surface of the earth. Near the main passage, the bears arrange a special cave nest 6x6 cm in size at a depth of 10-20 cm, compacting the soil inside it.

There they lay in groups of dark yellow eggs with a diameter of about 4-5 mm in the amount of 300-500 pcs. After 2 weeks, mobile gray larvae appear from the eggs - outwardly they look like ants. only gray, leaving the nest after the first molt in late June-early July.

Voracious larvae eat vegetable seedlings

In areas infected with a bear, it is impossible to feed plants with fresh mullein - it will attract a pest from all over the area. Diluted bird droppings, on the contrary, scare away the bear (you need to water the ground with infusion of chicken droppings in dry weather).

Marigolds sown along the boundaries of the site block the access of the bear from neighboring territories - the bear does not tolerate the smell of marigolds.

Ways to deal with a bear

1. Boil barley or buckwheat porridge, add VAFATOKS, or Regent, or Phenaksin plus, add unrefined vegetable oil to smell and attract bears - 1 tbsp per half liter of porridge, and after a while you will notice that the bear becomes smaller. The result is very good. Pea means “Medvetoks” are laid in the moves.

2. In the evening, listen to where the male bears sing, sounds like a whistle, put poisoned bait there early in the morning.3. One of the gardeners, knowing that there are bears on the site, all the seedlings of cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, planted in disposable cups without a bottom, the seedlings were saved.

4. One of their summer residents gives the following advice: “The usual compound feed from wheat or corn, I take somewhere 100 g of BI 58 for a bucket of compound feed and mix it well. After that, I scatter this mixture on the ground and after a maximum of 2 hours the result is on the face, they crawl out of the ground and die”

4. Nikolai Karpukhin from the Moscow region:
In early spring, as soon as the earth thaws, in the morning he lays out pieces of plywood, boards, and thick cardboard on still empty beds. Medvedka loves to crawl out of her minks and bask under them. In the middle of the day, Nikolai pours two liters of water and a little kerosene into a bucket and collects seedling pests from under shelters. In the summer, he places the same traps on the paths and catches the bear at the beginning of the day or in the evening.

5. In addition, Nikolai Karpukhin learned find bear nests with a laying of eggs. He recognizes them by fading plants. Usually bears gnaw them from the south or south-west side so that the leaves do not obscure the masonry. With his hands in the ground, he gropes for the bear's mink, which is a little rammed. It contains a lump of dense soil. This is the egg nest. If you carefully take it out and break it, then in the clutch there can be from 100 to 200 pieces.

6. Viktor Kravchenko from the Rostov region: He collects eggshell, and in the spring it mulches seedlings with it to protect against the bear. He does it this way. First plant and water the plants. Then it is sprinkled with a thick layer of crushed shells, and sprinkled with humus or sawdust on top. Sharp and hard fragments of the shell do not like the insect when it gets close to the seedlings.

7. Grigory Panteleev from Krasnodar: Desperate to finally defeat the bear, he found such a way to protect cabbage seedlings from it. He places the rootball of the seedling in a bag made from a piece of old women's tights. The ends of the bag are tied crosswise around the stem so that there are no gaps where the bear could crawl through. The seedlings are planted so that the top of the nylon bag protrudes 4 cm above the ground. With this method, the roots of the plants easily penetrate the fabric, the insect will not cause much harm to them, and the stem below is protected. When he coarsens over time, he ceases to attract a bear.

8. Medvedka can be caught for honey
As a trap, you can use a glass jar, greased from the inside at the neck with honey. The jar is dug into the ground, the neck is closed with a board with a gap of 1-1.5 cm. After a while, the jar is taken out and the insects that have crawled into it are destroyed.

9. Windmills against the bear
Another method of dealing with the bear. It is necessary to put windmills on the site at a distance of 5-10 m from each other. For this, it is better to use iron pipes 3 meters high. Attach a light metal propeller to the top of the pipe so that it rotates easily and creates more noise. Medvedok is worried about the vibration and noise from the propellers as a natural disaster and leave the site.

10. Bears do not like the smell of calendula, garlic, parsley, fresh alder leaves.
Traps.

1. It is necessary to make a tin box with dimensions of 10x30x15 cm, dig into the ground so that the upper edge is at the level with the upper horizon of the soil. The box should be covered with a large mesh of wire, perforated rag, gauze or other similar material and sprinkled with earth. At the bottom of the box, you can put, moistening, a thin layer of earth, humus.

Spread the bottom inside with honey or unrefined sunflower oil:

2. Lay out on the plot pieces of roofing material or cardboard and press down the edges with pebbles or small stones and leave, you can put the bait. Then after a while, after a day or night, put on gloves and quickly lift the leaf, considering how agile the bear is, be ready to quickly grab it.

Medvedka is a dangerous pest that can bring tremendous harm to the crop. Apply different methods of struggle and your success will be guaranteed.

Jun 4, 2015 Galinka