The smoke from the field was waves in mind drawing mirage
And in it, smartly gathered in a flock, galloping good hedgehogs.
Here's a simple poem comes to mind at the sight of hedgehogs. These cute crumbs with eye beads, lots of needles, funny nose, sniffing and stomp along the paths, of course, funny and cute animals.
Hedgehogs belong to the class of mammals, the family tight. The first hedgehog appeared on earth as much as 15 million years ago! In the wild, they live an average of 6 years.
We know him well as an ordinary hedgehog, who lives not only in forests, steppes, but also in the gardens next to the housing rights. He has excellent hearing and smell, but poor eyesight and touch. On walks hedgehogs come out at night, during the day they are mostly asleep.
So who hedgehog for the gardener - a pest or a friend?
Benefits of hedgehogs in the garden
Undoubtedly, hedgehogs - friends of gardeners. If you lived in the garden hedgehog - it's a great sign, it is an indication of a good environment at your site.
Hedgehog - carnivorous animal, so with pleasure regales plant pests, cleaning your site and protecting plants. Their favorite treat - it chafers (Khrushchev), caterpillars, ground beetles, molluscs, slugs, snails, wireworms, cutworms, mole crickets. He will not give a bite to eat flies, worms. And even small mice and snakes. Where live hedgehogs, snakes usually are not found.
Jerzy destroy mouse and rat home, and since it does not fear any bee or wasp stings, and destroy their nests. If you do not regret a few berries, in addition to them, to tame a hedgehog in the garden, use bait. They will be grateful when you leave in certain places the pieces of bread, meat, pasta, cookies, sunflower seeds.
But! Do not give Hedgehog milk, although they drink it. Hedgehogs are not lactose intolerant, so they can die. Better to leave the water in heavy containers. If you think about the long-term neighborhood, you can even make or buy a house for that animal at the pet store.
inconvenience
In the case of compliance with all the safety precautions and the very tiny minus:
- Firstly, you can not take urchins on hand - they peddlers infections and their many thorns ticks. And from the bite, or puncture wound may become inflamed and get sick for a long time.
- Secondly, animals can eat small birds, rabbits and chicks. But this problem can be solved protection against penetration urchins cells.
So do not worry, when you have this cute and friendly animal will appear in the garden. He has a tremendous help gardeners, helping to save the crop from hungry insects and other pests.
By the way, I almost forgot to ask you to look at the photo below... :)
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