The ordinary bear is a thunderstorm of the vegetable world!

The bear is an insect pest. 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. Above it is brown, from below it is dark yellow. The forelimbs of this insect are very shortened and are meant for digging the earth. So, the guest of our today's article is an ordinary bear!

The insect has wings. They are large and thin, stacked in a fan-shaped manner. Elytra - shortened. With the help of them the males chatter. The abdomen of the bear cub ends with two antennae, as in the twins.

Habitat

The bear is an insect (photo 1, 2, 3), spread throughout Europe. He is not only in the Far North. The natural conditions of this pest are wet, loose and organically rich soils (wet meadows, lowlands, peat vegetation, etc.). They are somewhat more difficult in clay soils and chernozems.

Be careful, wrecker!

At the beginning of the article, we said that the bear is a pest. The way it is. The fact is that one of its favorite places is the gardens and vegetable gardens. There, the insect inflicts enormous harm, damaging the root system of different crop plants! Truck farmers grab their heads.

The ordinary bear prefers to eat 50 species of various cultivated and wild plants. Particularly bad damage it does to potatoes, cabbage, carrots, beets, corn and seedlings, located in greenhouses. In addition, the pest destroys grapes and fruit crops. As a result, young plants and their sprouts are killed.

Activity of the bear

In Russia, the ordinary bear starts its active activity in the spring (in May). In the gardens they are accidentally brought with manure or with a clod of earth. These insects dig many and superficial moves. During the day, pests hide in the earthen kingdom, and in the evening they come to the surface. Sometimes they fly to the light like moths. Males of the bears begin to chirr in the dark. In general, nothing good from these pests can not wait. With them you need to fight. It's not so easy to do, but real. They can be poisoned with some kind of insecticide, but you will also kill cultural plants . The safest way to deal with the bears is by their own capture. About this - further.

How to catch a bear?

We note at once that this is a labor-intensive, but effective process. In addition, the bear is a gluttonous and large insect, which means that their population in the garden plot is not so large. This will deter them by catching. So, what do you need to do?

1. To catch a bear, we need a flat cutter and chopper. It is necessary to make sections of the soil where the activity of the insect is visible. This will allow us to see its underground passage. Outwardly, this tunnel is 1.5 cm in diameter.
2. Found a course? Fill it with vegetable oil. We wait. After a while the ordinary bear will appear on the surface of the earth. You wait for her with a chopper. Of course, it is not necessary to kill an insect, dismembering it in half, you can simply collect the bears in a bottle, and then set it on fire. Some people take the insect with them, turning it into a pet!