Fighting with Medvedka in the greenhouse

Medvedka is an underground resident who loves heat and humidity. In a greenhouse, such conditions are created much earlier, and end later. Of the entire land insect will choose this. How to deal with Medvedka in a greenhouse is a difficult question, because it depends on the structure of the greenhouse, the period of operation, the type of plants that are grown there.

Struggle in the construction phase

From medvedki in the greenhouse well helps prevention. It is necessary to create such conditions that the pest could not get inside, to substantiate the nest.

According to some reports Medvedka lives under the ground at a depth of 70 cm. It is scientifically proven that the insect goes into the depth of 2 m before the onset of persistent cold weather, it remains to overwinter. With the onset of heat approaching the surface. Builds its nests in well-heated soil. On average, it is about 50 cm deep. Gardeners found nests at such a distance from the ground.

It feeds on the roots of plants, crunches juicy stems, root crops, earthworms, small insects. At a depth of more than 50 cm there is practically no food for the pest, it makes no sense to penetrate the earth to such an extent.

Medvedka in the greenhouse

The female builds a nest, lays eggs in it, creates, maintains favorable conditions - 4 outlets from different sides for free air circulation, heat ingress, gnaws through the stems of plants to avoid shading the dwelling. All this happens at a depth of about 20 cm.

On a note!

The fight with the medvedka in the greenhouse is to deepen its structure from all sides 50 cm deep.Slate, metal sheets, other material which is not giving in to rotting is used. If the door remains open at night, hang a grid with small cells.

Destruction methods

Use insecticidal toxic agents in the greenhouse (Vofaktoks, Rembek etc.) is inappropriate, dangerous to health, there is a struggle with folk remedies.

Methods of destruction Medved

Soil change

There are many real methods like remove the pest from the garden. The easiest, quickest, but time consuming way is to change the soil. Remove the entire fertile layer, place a new, not infected with the eggs of a polar bear. Or pour the earth in the fall on plastic wrap, leave to hibernate. Low temperatures will kill pest eggs.

Ammonia

Tomato saplings, eggplant water solution liquid ammonia. Dilute 10 ml in a bucket of water. Shallow furrows are dug around the plant to prevent ammonia from getting to the roots of the crop, the green part. Watered at a distance of 10 cm from the plant. Not suitable for this method of struggle in the greenhouse, where they grow cucumbers. These plants do not tolerate ammonia.

Plastic bottle

What to do if the bear does not live in the greenhouse for the first year, it is impossible to get rid of it, it is also known. Each plant - a tomato, cucumber, eggplant planted in a cylinder of a plastic bottle without a bottom. The diameter is 20 cm, the depth is 30 cm. A tomato can be removed when the ovary appears on the plant. The plant is strong, able to withstand the attack medvedki. Cucumbers, eggplant will have to leave in the cylinder.

Eggshell

You can drive Medvedka from the greenhouse egg shell. It should be crushed, poured into the hole before planting seedlings. The pest stops digging if it bumps into something sharp. The shell can be sprinkled on top of the plant around, lightly sprinkled with earth.

Bottle trap

Physical methods of struggle can significantly reduce the population of insects. Digging bottles into the ground at an angle. Pour beer or just plain water. Bears are drawn to moisture, they will climb into a trap with liquid. They are also attracted by the strong beer flavor. Varieties of traps there are many.

Smell

When planting in the hole should throw a clove of garlic, walnut leaves, coriander. These components retain the smell for a long time, frighten the bear and other harmful insects.

Flowers

To get rid of a bear in a greenhouse made of polycarbonate can be flowers - marigolds, chrysanthemums. They are planted around the greenhouse. Plants expelled pests from the greenhouse, do not allow to settle.

Kerosene

You can bring Medvedka kerosene. Around 30 cm deep grooves are dug around the greenhouse. Filled with kerosene-soaked sand.

Chicken litter

Greenhouse plants require feeding, give a good harvest only on fertile soil. In most cases, the land is saturated with the necessary components with manure. However, with such fertilizer, you can bring the eggs of the bear in the greenhouse with your own hands. Since insects often overwinter under a pile of dung, they build nests. One way out is to use bird feces. They fertilize the soil several times better than cow, pig, and other domestic animals. Chicken litter frightens off with the smell of pests, makes greenhouse soil unattractive for them.

Poison from cereals and legumes

You can destroy the bear by poisonous bait. Use an effective insecticide or another poisonwith which they poison the Colorado potato beetle. Cook porridge from rice, pearl barley, millet, boiled peas.Pour in a solution of the poisonous drug, mix well. For the smell add a few spoons of vegetable oil. Dig small holes, moisten, lay out bait.

In addition to these, there are still many different funds from the bear in the garden that can be used in the greenhouse.

You can remove the bear from the greenhouse, you can save the plants from death in different ways, but it is better to prevent the penetration of pests. Before the construction of the greenhouse, it is necessary to carry out the preparatory work, to provide reliable protection.