The bear is a pest insect. It belongs to the family of the same name. Another name for the bear is earthen cancer. This pest has a rather thick body covered with hairs. It is brown above, dark yellow below. The forelimbs of this insect are very shortened and are intended for digging the earth. So, the guest of our article today is the common bear!
The insect has wings. They are large and thin, folded fan-shaped. Elytra - shortened. With the help of them, the males chirp. The belly of the bear ends with two antennae, like a double-tail.
Habitat
Medvedka is an insect (photo 1, 2, 3), widespread throughout Europe. He is not only in the Far North. The natural living conditions of this pest are moist, loose and organically rich soils (wet meadows, lowlands, peat vegetation, etc.). They are a little more difficult in clay soils and on chernozems.
Caution pest!
At the beginning of the article, we said that the bear is a pest. The way it is. The fact is that one of her favorite places is gardens and vegetable gardens. There, the insect does tremendous damage, damaging the root system of various cultivated plants! Gardeners clutching their heads.
The common bear prefers to eat 50 species of various cultivated and wild plants. It causes especially severe damage to potatoes, cabbage, carrots, beets, corn and seedlings in greenhouses. In addition, the pest destroys grapes and fruit crops. As a result, young plants and their seedlings die.
Activity Bears
In Russia, the common bear begins its activity in the spring (in May). They are accidentally brought into gardens with manure or with a lump of land. These insects dig numerous and shallow passages. In the afternoon, pests hide in the earthly kingdom, and in the evening they come to the surface. Sometimes they fly into the light, like moths. Males bear begin to chatter in the dark. In general, nothing good can be expected from these pests. They need to be fought. To do this is not so simple, but real. They can be poisoned with any insecticides, however, you will also destroy cultural plants. The safest way to deal with the bears is to catch them yourself. About it - further.
How to catch a bear?
We note right away that this is a laborious but effective process. In addition, the bear is a gluttonous and large insect, which means that their population in the garden is not so large. This will allow them to be restrained by trapping. So what should you do?
- To catch the bear, we need a plane cutter and a chopper. It is necessary to make soil sections where the activity of an insect is visible. This will allow us to see its underground passage. Outwardly, it is a tunnel of 1.5 cm in diameter.
- Found a move? Pour vegetable oil into it. We wait. After a while, the common bear will appear on the surface of the earth. You are waiting for her with a chopper. Of course, it is not necessary to kill the insect by breaking it in half, you can just collect the bear in a bottle and then set it on fire. Some people take an insect with them, turning it into a pet!
