A polyphagous pest that feeds on the underground parts of plants. By applying all the methods described below to protect your garden from a bear, you can significantly reduce the number of this pest.

Agrotechnical methods of control

late autumn and in early spring deep plowing is recommended, as well as after some time loosening the soil to a depth of 15-20 cm. These techniques will make it difficult for the pest to get food, partially or completely destroy eggs, larvae and adults, and destroy passages. When making organic fertilizers it is necessary to carefully check them for the presence of a bear, since even a small amount of this pest can completely destroy young plants. By sowing marigolds or coriander around the perimeter of the site, you can close the access of the bear from neighboring territories.

Folk methods of dealing with a bear

How to get rid of a bear in the garden folk methods read below. Who prefers environmentally friendly products - folk ways fight with the bear to help.

You can also partially get rid of the bear with the help of traps. To do this, in the fall, when the soil temperature has not dropped below +8 ° C, they dig several hunting holes for every 100 m 2 of the site. A pit is dug about 50 cm deep and lined with the walls and bottom of the pit plastic wrap, and then filled with semi-rotted manure. Medvedka occupies such places for wintering. When stable frosts are established, they dig a hole with bears and when it gets into frost, the pest dies.

Another option for traps is to scatter heaps of manure around the territory at the end of spring. At this time, bears lay eggs, and for this they crawl into such traps. After that, the larvae hatched from the eggs do not leave the nest for some time. It is at this time (about 4 weeks after laying the eggs) that the manure traps should be removed and burned, thus getting rid of the young generation of pests.

A liter jar is instilled into the soil up to the neck, into which 100 g of beer is poured and tied with gauze on top. Medvedka will gnaw through the gauze, but will not be able to get back. After a week, the jar can be pulled out and get rid of pests. In the same way, you can fight the bear with honey, they coat the bottom and walls of the jar with it, and also bury it in the soil.

You can still fight the bear coniferous plants, as the bears are afraid of their smell. Coniferous needles can be poured into the holes when planting seedlings or on top of the soil, the pest will recede due to an unpleasant odor.

You can also use a solution of kerosene with water (100 ml per 10 liters of water) and pour it into the holes of the bear in the evening, 2 cups each. You can also supplement this method by preparing a mixture of kerosene and sand (1 cup of kerosene per bucket of sand). This mixture is sprinkled between rows and paths on the site.

Mix with eggshell and oil also helps to scare away the bear, it is buried in the aisles to a depth of 2-3 cm.

When planting vegetable seedlings, there are many ways to scare off the pest: onion peel, garlic cloves, raw fish heads are placed in the hole.

Chemical control methods

When other methods of control do not work, insecticides have to be applied. To protect root system seedlings vegetable crops from a bear, use a 2% solution of the drug Aktara 25, in. g., for wetting the roots (you need 1 liter of solution for 250 plants).

It is also effective to soak the roots of seedlings in a solution of the drug. Prestige 290FS(100 ml of the drug is diluted with 10 liters of water). Leave the seedlings in the solution for 6-8 hours.

Medvetoks ( active substance— diazinon, 50 g/kg)

The granulated preparation is introduced into the soil to a depth of 3-5 cm between rows and ridges. The consumption of the drug is 200 g per 100 m 2. Analogues of this insecticide: "Ant", "Grizzly".

Phenaksin Plus (active ingredient malathion 50 g/kg)

A granular preparation with an attractive smell and taste for a bear. The drug is applied to the soil before planting crops, 5-10 g to a depth of 2-3 cm every 50-100 cm. Or during planting seedlings, several granules for each plant. Mix with others chemicals forbidden.

If you add electronic to the listed standard methods of struggle, the bear will have no chance at all. This method includes repellers, which, with the help of sound and vibration vibrations, are able to protect plants from the bear. These devices are safe for plants, animals and people. To start the repeller, it is enough to turn it on and stick it into the ground to a depth of 10-20 cm. Also, depending on the model of the device, you need to calculate the number of devices needed to protect the entire area.

In this short article we will talk about how to protect seedlings from the bear. For those who are lucky enough not to know what a bear is, we will say that this is a rather difficult pest to breed, large sizes- up to 5 cm, which leads a predominantly underground lifestyle at a shallow depth.

The harm from the bear can be quite serious if there is a large increase in its population within the same garden. Digging up the earth at a relatively shallow depth, the insect eats up the roots of tender seedlings and violates the ameliorative characteristics of the site.

Protecting seedlings from a bear

The juicy roots of recently transplanted or sprouted crops, such as tomatoes, red peppers, eggplants, cucumbers and others, are most susceptible to attack by the bear. Having lost most of its roots as a result of the pest activity of the bear, the seedling will surely die. With massive insect attacks on the garden, summer residents can lose up to 60% or more of their useful roots.

Of course, a person tries to fight pests with varying degrees of success. The following techniques are most effective against the bear:

• At the bottom of the hole, before throwing a seed or digging in a seedling, it is useful to throw eggshells. As the bear digs to the root of the plant, it will stumble upon the sharp edges of the shell and take its mink aside.
• Each seedling can be protected by sticking metal plates into the depth of its roots in a circle from the stem within a radius of 15-20 cm.
• Medvedka is very unpleasant smells of naphthalene and kerosene. Several roots can be surrounded by a rope soaked in these substances and dug to a depth of 2-3 cm.
• Medvedka, like all insects, is afraid of the smell of vegetable essential oils, so the constant presence of coniferous branches between the rows cultivated plants, significantly reduces the number of pests.

You can also use commercial poisonous baits for bears, which are available in specialty stores, such as Medvetoks. The composition of these products includes substances that lure the bear and contain a strong insecticide, which has a strong toxic effect on insects.

In addition to the above possible means of control, it is possible to organize the protection of seedlings from the bear with the help of fairly effective traps. For example, you can take an ordinary liter jar, pour some honey, sugar syrup, beer or molasses dissolved in water into it, and then dig in the container so that its upper part stands out above the surface to a height of no more than 1-2 cm. You can close the jar by tying a small piece of gauze. Medvedka, attracted by the smell and tastes of these baits, will gnaw through the gauze and fall into the jar, but will not be able to get back.

Medvedka is considered one of the most difficult pests, since it is extremely difficult to remove it. She almost always lives in the ground, only at night she flies over relatively short distances to meet her mate and continue the race. Direct exposure to insecticides is almost impossible, as the soil filters out all the toxin quite strongly.

In this article, we will tell you how to protect the garden from the bear, as well as prevent its appearance, if at the moment it is not there yet.

Pest prevention

All garden and garden owners need to remember that if a bear appeared at neighbors, even very distant ones, there is a very high percentage of probability that it will soon appear in its native area. Although this insect cannot be considered extremely dangerous pest, which "mows" everything clean, it is a fairly peaceful insect that does not even realize that it can interfere with its existence to someone, in some cases its activity can be really detrimental.

Especially it concerns spring period when, along with the greatest activity of the insect, recently transplanted tomatoes and eggplants begin to take root in the soil, as well as young strings of carrots and tender seedlings of cucumbers.

Undermining the roots of these crops with a bear leads to their actual destruction. Also, the bear is especially harmful to lawns, where young thin roots of lawn grass lure it.

To reduce the risk of the appearance of a bear in your area, you should adhere to the following recommendations:

• Medvedka prefers chernozem soil layers with high humidity, richly flavored with manure. Therefore, when growing cultivated plants, one should limit the amount of manure as a fertilizer, and also prevent an excess of moisture, the plants should be watered exactly as much as they need moisture today, without a "reserve".
• Weeds should not be allowed to appear, even in small quantities.
• All herbal mass of plucked weeds must be properly removed from the garden.
• The soil where the crop grows must be accessible to direct sunlight.
• The bear has many natural enemies, including the burrowing wasp Larra. This insect is easily recognizable by the black body, the thinnest long "waist" and the red area on the abdomen in its tail section. Wasps of this species lay their eggs directly into the body of the bear, subsequently the larvae hatch and feed on the juices of the insect, which leads to its death. To increase the concentration of burrowing wasps, it is enough to plant plants around the perimeter of the garden that attract them, for example, Cassia tufted.

How to protect the garden from the bear, if it has already appeared

To get rid of a harmful insect, you need to spend a lot of physical effort and time. You can consider the following options:

• Use commercial insecticides against Medvedka as intended, which are not in short supply on the shelves of specialized stores. However, it must be remembered that any chemistry is not good for human health, because in any case it will end up on a person’s table along with the harvest.
• An aqueous solution of ammonia in a ratio of 1:10 repels the bear well from cultivated plants. Many summer residents water the edges of their beds with this solution.
• Soapy water drives pests to the surface, where they can then simply be collected.
• Traps from cans dug almost to the very neck, filled with water and covered with pieces of wood, can serve as a good trap for bears.

Among other things, if possible, you can protect each plant separately, for example, using a cylinder from a plastic bottle, capacity 5 liters, without a bottom, to a depth of several tens of centimeters. Also, many amateur gardeners put eggshells at the bottom of the hole before placing the seedling there. There is no harm or interference for the plant, but the bear, when it reaches the sharp edge of the shell by digging, cuts itself against it and takes its digging to the side.

Hello Larisa!

Who is this bear?

Medvedka is a large beetle with tentacles, about the length and thickness of a finger. Thanks to strong front legs and an armored shield, the bear successfully digs the ground, while moving quickly. Medvedki are most active at night. At this time of the day, they move well through the air. When digging underground tunnels, bears gnaw through everything in their path - roots, stems, seeds. The first sign of the appearance of a bear on the site is the presence of deep horizontal passages, as well as the sudden withering of plants. Medvedki are very tenacious insects, in addition, they are very prolific. Therefore, their appearance on the site affects the crop is detrimental.

Mechanical protection methods

Most effective way to protect seedlings from the bear is the so-called mechanical method. Before planting seedlings, you should prepare plastic jars with a removed bottom. For this purpose, it is convenient to use wide plastic bottles, various containers from household chemicals that must be rinsed well beforehand. The diameter and height of the cylinder depends on the type of plant, how strongly its roots grow, or on the variety of the future root crop - how large it can grow. The jars are placed in the ground in such a way that the upper edge protrudes above the ground to a height of just over one centimeter. Next, seedlings are planted in jars, earth is added to the full volume of the cylinder. For the bear, this is an insurmountable obstacle that she has to bypass when digging her tunnels.

However, this area is less harmful insects does not become, and, in addition to seedlings, many useful perennials. To destroy the bear, you can arrange the so-called traps. glass jars with a capacity of 0.5 - 1 l with a small amount of water, dig over the territory of the site so that the neck of the jar is slightly below ground level (approximately half a centimeter), the jars are covered with planks on top. The gaps left between the banks and planks should be enough for the bear to crawl into the jar. She won't be able to get back out. After a certain period of time, you should check the traps, as they can be overflowing with bears.

You can prepare in advance for a meeting with harmful insects. If you dig a small hole in the area in the fall and fill it with manure, then most of the bears will gather in this place that is comfortable for them for the winter. When frost sets in, manure from the heap should be scattered over the surface of the area where the bears will die from frost. For complete confidence in the spring, you can collect manure from the surface and burn it.

It is possible in another way

There are other ways to protect the site from a harmful beetle. For example, planting plants with a smell that repels a bear. Or another way - solutions of pesticides, either soapy water, or kerosene, etc., are poured into the passages laid by the bears in the ground. Some install windmills on their plots to scare away insects with noise. These methods are very time consuming, and also have questionable effectiveness.

In any case, the choice is yours. convenient way protection of seedlings from an insidious insect. I wish you a bountiful harvest and a pleasant stay on your site.

Sincerely, Veronica.

- the most dangerous enemy of seedlings, young plants. The pest builds numerous passages in the soil at a depth of 5 to 70 cm, destroying everything in its path. It feeds on roots, plant stems, parts that are underground. You can notice the presence of pests in the garden along the path of traces on the soil, dried plants, holes in the ground. How to protect seedlings from a bear, every gardener thinks. It is better to prevent trouble right away than to correct mistakes later.

Planting cucumbers

Protection of seedlings from the bear is carried out folk remedies, without to preserve the natural value of the vegetable.

• Dig holes about 20 cm deep.
• Mix soil with earth, pour into prepared holes.
• Carefully remove the seedlings from the original container along with the ground.
• In plastic cups, cut off the bottom, cut them in half. For one plant you need 2 halves.
• Place seedlings with soil in one half, attach the other. In this position, insert into the hole, sprinkle with soil.
• The edges of the cup should protrude 1.5 cm. When the seedlings are strengthened, they can be easily pulled out.

On a note!

Cucumber seeds, when placed directly in the garden soil, can also be protected with folk remedies. One of these ways is to crush, mix with vegetable oil. Place in the holes, lightly sprinkle with earth. Sow seeds. Such a simple method of struggle can save cucumbers and other crops. Medvedka does not like sharp objects, having stumbled on the edges of the shell, she will continue to move around.

planting tomatoes

You can protect seedlings from the bear at the stage of planting the plant.

• Plastic bottles allow you to create a safe space for the normal formation of the plant's root system. Cut off the neck, cut out the bottom. Place seedlings. You can immediately plant tomatoes in such a container. Then, before planting in the garden, it is enough just to cut the bottom. The bottle is removed after the appearance of the ovary, when the tomatoes get stronger, the stem will form.
• Help save tomatoes. It is bred in water. For 10 liters of liquid, 2 tbsp. spoons of ammonia A small depression is made around the plant at a distance of 10 cm. Water with a solution to this border so that the liquid does not get on the roots, the green part of the plant. Ammonia scares away the bear with a pungent odor, high nitrogen content in the soil. Another way to protect seedlings from a bear is to dig a cotton swab around the plant, a rag soaked in ammonia.
• You can protect tomatoes. Sawdust is impregnated in a solution of tar, laid out in holes when planting. Or dig around, lightly sprinkling with earth. The tar has a strong smell, which repels the bear and other harmful insects. Soaking the root of the plants before planting in a solution of birch tar will help save seedlings from the bear. For 3 liters of water use 1 tbsp. a spoonful of the drug.
• Dig pine and spruce branches in the garden near each plant. They retain the smell for a long time, scare away the bear. So you can get rid of pests in the entire garden area.
• Put garlic cloves and walnut leaves in the hole when planting.

Help save seedlings the right fertilizer. Use during planting in the garden. Mixed into the soil when planting. In the future, the green part of the plant is sprayed once a week. Useful for tomatoes, repels bears and other harmful insects.

Prevention measures

You can secure your garden in the fall if you take this problem seriously.

• Medvedka's nests are located at a depth of 5 to 50 cm from the soil surface. In the fall, you need to dig the bed to approximately this depth. The passages, nests are ruined, the eggs are on the surface, the larvae die. Repeat the procedure in the spring before planting.
• In order not to eat garden crops, you need to scatter manure over the land in the fall. During the winter, the eggs of the bear, which she likes to lay there, will die.
• Dig a hole near the land plot, cover it with plastic wrap. Throw manure in there. Medvedki closer to autumn will begin to hide there, build a shelter for wintering. With the onset of persistent cold weather, tear up a pile of manure. Eggs, larvae, adults will die, because they will not be able to dig the frozen ground.

You can reduce the number of bears in the garden. They dig a small hole, dig in a bottle at an angle. Pour some beer. Cover the hole with plywood, a piece of linoleum. About 12 individuals are caught in one bottle. If there is a lantern in the garden, leave it on at night, place a bucket of soapy water under it. Medvedki fly into the light, hit the lantern, fall into the water.

To protect seedlings, seeds in the garden from pests, you need to deal with the entire land plot, and not a separate garden bed.