Medvedka - this insect pest.It belongs to the family of the same name.Another name for mole crickets - earthen cancer.This pest has a relatively thick body, covered with hairs.On top of it brown, bottom - dark yellow.The forelimbs of this insect are very shortened and designed for digging the earth.So, our today's guest article - an ordinary mole cricket!
insects have wings.They are large and thin, folded like a fan.Elytra - shortened.With the help of these males chirping.Mole crickets abdomen ends with two antennae, like diplura.
Habitat
Medvedka - insect (photos 1, 2, 3), spread across Europe.He is not only in the Far North.Natural habitat of this pest are wet, loose and organically rich soil (wet meadows, lowland peat, vegetation, and so on. D.) A bit harder to come into the clay soils and black earth.
Caution pests!
in the beginning we said that the mole cricket is a threat.The way it is.The fact that one of her favorite towns have orchards and gardens.There's an insect causing enormous harm, damaging the root system of different crop!Gardeners clutching his head.
Medvedka ordinary prefers to eat the 50th different kinds of cultivated and wild plants.Particularly strong damage it causes potatoes, cabbage, carrots, beets, corn and seedlings in greenhouses located.In addition, pest destroys vines and fruit crops.As a result, young plants and seedlings die.
Activities mole crickets
The Russian mole cricket used to start its activity in the spring (May).In the gardens of their accidental introduction of manure or a clod of earth.These insects dig tunnels and surface are numerous.Day pests hide in the earth realm, and in the evening come to the surface.Sometimes they fly to the light like moths.Males begin medvedok chirp in the dark.In general, anything good from these pests should not wait.They need to fight.It is not so easy, but real.They can poison any insecticides, however, and crop plants will destroy you too.The safest way to deal with Medvedkov is their self-trapping.On this - on.
How to catch a mole crickets?
note at once that it is time-consuming, but effective process.In addition, the mole cricket - is voracious and large insect, which means that their population in the garden area is not that big.This will deter them by means of capturing.So, what should you do?
- for catching mole crickets we need ploskorez and Chopper.It is necessary to make sections of the soil where the insect activity is visible.This will allow us to see its underground passage.Outwardly, this tunnel is 1.5 cm in diameter.
- Found move?Fill in a vegetable oil.We are waiting.After some time, an ordinary mole cricket will appear on the surface of the earth.You were waiting for her with a hoe.Of course, not necessarily to kill the insect, breaking it in half, you can simply assemble medvedok in the bottle, and then set fire to it.Some people take the insect with you, turning it into a pet!
