To deal with Medvedkov very difficult. Especially because this insect completely omnivorous and multiplies at an incredible rate. However, if armed with the necessary details of the mole cricket, then it is quite possible to win. About it and talk.
Mole (Ground cancer)
What harm is caused mole crickets
The presence of these insects in the area may cause enormous damage to any farm. Due to its omnivorous, mole crickets are a real threat to virtually all plants in the garden and the garden:
- potatoes, beets, carrots and all other root vegetables;
- flower bulbs and roots;
- roots of all shrubs, saplings and trees;
- crops absolutely all kinds of cereals: rice, wheat, corn ...;
- tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, pumpkins, melons, strawberries and all other vegetable and berry crops.
If you itemize everything that goes into their menu, it had neither the time nor the energy.
Habitat medvedok
As adults and larvae live in the soil, breaking through numerous holes in it and destroy the root system of plants. they are also doing a moves close to the plants and drag them into the ground for eating.
Despite the fact that mole crickets live mostly underground, they are perfectly able to fly, run and even swim! On the surface they are selected preferably in the dark.
reproduction
Not only is the mole crickets mercilessly devour and destroy all the plants, so they also multiply at an incredible rate.
And she carefully prepares the place for masonry, choosing a place with well-hydrated and fertilized soil. The female initially breaks around the roots of plants are numerous moves, and then, at a depth of about 6-10 cm from the ground surface suits their nesting.
It has a ball shape, inside which is hollow chamber with sufficiently compacted walls.
Imagine this: the female after mating mole crickets lay 100 to 600 eggs!
After 15-20 days the larvae emerge from the eggs of gray. The female protects its young during one month, continuously maintaining adequate ventilation.
Did you know that the larva mole crickets alive and growing in the soil from 1.5 to 2.5 years? During this time they have going 8-9 molts.
Larvae mole crickets, as well as May beetle larvaeIn the first year of life are exclusively organic matter (humus root residues). But the older they become, the more their appetites grow.
egg-laying occurs mainly in April or May. If spring digging site to produce more thoroughly and carefully, nesting medvedok can be easily detected.
To destroy this voracious offspring, found a nest simply pour boiling water.
Where winters cricket
Larvae and adults overwinter in the soil fertilized with manure or compost pile. In cold weather, they are much deeper in the soil. The larvae descend to a depth of 30 cm and adults - to a depth of 60 cm to one meter.
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