Description and photos of the creators of holes in the garden

When the summer season comes, many gardeners and gardeners are faced with the problem of pests. Rumbled plot, eaten or spoiled the crop and the characteristic mink of many terrify.

Sometimes it is not easy to determine who digs holes in the garden, because this is not always the trick of a mole. And the moles do not drag away the plants and do not gnaw the roots, because they prefer to eat insects.

In this article we will understand what pests can search through the dacha and how to deal with them.

Darling

In many respects it looks like a mole, although it is bigger in size, but it leaves traces behind it about the same. The main difference is that blind people are voracious rodents, and the fight against them can be painful and long.

Blindfolded usually not more than 32 cm in length. They have very short legs, gray hair. The tail is not visible, since it is too small, the eyes are reduced and hidden under the skin.

The widest part of the body of a mole rat is the head. If you look at the animal from above, it resembles a shovel. The front teeth of the mole is long and protrudes.

Such a pest especially loves potatoes and carrots, it suffers from garlic and beets, onions and bulbous flowers. It can also damage other plants, such as corn or beans.

Usually the animal drags the plants into its burrow, nibbles the tops and leaves the lower part as a reserve for the winter.

The fight against mole rats due to their underground lifestyle is not always effective, but it is still possible. Just remember that there is a giant mole rat listed in the Red Book.

Usually, when the whole garden is in burrows, the summer resident does not particularly care who did it, just to exterminate the pest. Giant mole rat is distributed mainly in sandy and clay soils near water bodies.

They can be found in the Caucasus, in Dagestan, near the Terek, Sulak and Kuma rivers. It may be that such a rare animal lives on your site.

Therefore, it is better to try to determine in advance whether you have a common mole rat or not. Of course, it is better to catch or scare the giant mole rat.

Giant mole rat Common mole rat Mink of a Moorish There are several ways to get rid of the pest.

First way - setting traps. This method is not very effective, because the blind are smart and cunning.It is best to get crooks. When dealing with a mole rat, you can be cunning.

The animals do not like open areas and the wind, so you can dig up their hole and make another smaller one in the neighborhood. Place a trap in the hole and cover it with something. Choosing from two options, a mole rat, of course, will choose a more protected one and will most likely fall into the trap.

Second way - flood the burrows. The little blind is quite helpless against the water. But if the land on your sandy and well absorbs moisture, then most likely this method of struggle will not work for you.

Third way - use poisons and chemicals. But it also may not work. If there is enough food for a mole rat on your site, then he will not even look at the side of the poison. Fourth way and one of the most effective is noise and ultrasound. Blunts hate noise. Therefore, the installation of noise scarers will not be superfluous. One of the surest ways is a vibration-sound repeller.

Shrew

The animal looks like a vole, but it has two distinct differences - a much longer tail and an elongated muzzle. Shrews come in two forms: shrew and shrew.

The shrew is no larger than 7 cm in size and has a gray color, but most often a shrew with brown fur appears in the garden and no more than 5 cm in length.

Shrew Shrew Do not be deceived about the appearance of the animal, because the way the shrew looks cute in the photo does not mean that the damage from it will be minimal. In just a couple of days the whole plot can be dug, and the lawn will be mottled with bumps.

The shrew has a high metabolism, so she constantly searches for food, as a result of which such furrows are obtained, as in the photo of her hole.

The baby feeds on insects, and it would be quite useful if the harm it causes were not many times more good. During the day, it destroys insect pests several times the mass of its own body.

The furrows that it creates help the earth to be saturated with oxygen. But the fact is that there is usually practically nothing to grow on such land - the shrew gnaws on the roots and plants that stand in its way.

Mink shrews are usually very, very small. So, most likely, first of all you will find the shrew itself. After that you should look for a nest.

The first way to deal with the shrew - poisons and chemicals. Products such as "Anti-Rodent" are used against animals. It is important to remember that the poison can be dangerous to pets or children, so be careful and read the instructions for use.

Second way - flood the mink shrews. It is better to flood any hole, causing suspicion.

Third way - use objects with a sharp, unpleasant smell. Shrews have a very delicate nose, which is why they do not tolerate strong-smelling things. Put rotten fish or eggs in the mink. The shrew will not tolerate such odors and will leave the mink.

Using traps against shrews is ineffective. Yes, and any of these methods does not give an absolute guarantee. Shrews can easily come back to your site, so you should be very careful.

Vole

Looks like a normal mouse. Body length - no more than 13 cm.Color brown, and gray on the tummy. Unlike a shrew, a vole will eat exactly your harvest.

She likes the roots, shoots, leaves and sometimes even the seeds of some plants (for example, beans). It is even more prolific than a shrew - a field mouse is able to reproduce offspring for the season up to 7 times, 5, and sometimes 12 babies.

In winter, voles protect a layer of snow that has fallen, so pestless winters can simply not survive. In winter, they can damage raspberry bushes and gardens.

Below is a photo of mink field mouse. Pests usually live in groups, digging branchy, complex moves. But it happens at a shallow depth - from 15 to 35 cm. Preventing vole appearance on your plot will be regular weed control and timely harvesting. But alas, even the observance of all precautions cannot guarantee that you will not start a vole.

So, what to do if the field mouse already bred on your site?

First way - Get a good, not lazy cat.Of course, if you take a kitten, it will not go the fastest way, but this method can scare away voles for a long time and protect your plot.

It is not the most reasonable solution to use traps, since they are effective in the presence of only a few pests, and the number of voles tends to increase rapidly.

Second way - poison baits and toxic substances. For example, you can make lumps of dry gypsum and flour or other delicacy. Voles love to drink after a meal, and stuck in the stomach plaster will lead to immediate death. You can flood the burrows, treat them with poisonous gases, or use the poison of acute action, after which the animal will die.

Voles are smart, so if you choose poison, it is better to choose the one that the rodent needs to eat once, than substances with a cumulative effect. Third method - smells and noises. A variety of ultrasonic repellers are effective. Also voles do not tolerate the smell of elderberry and walnut, they do not like the aromas of essential oils. Therefore, you can put in their hole nut leaves, elderberry, even garlic or a piece of cloth soaked in essential oil or, for example, kerosene.

Fourth way - ammonium nitrate solution, 3%. It needs to be poured into the hole (about 1 cup) and stamped on top. Ammonia is detrimental to voles.

Kravchik (snow beetle)

The representative of the family Manurers-excavation. Only here it differs from its relatives in that it eats herbivorous food. He was nicknamed the snowstorm beetle due to the fact that with his powerful jaws he literally clipped the stalks of plants.

The beetle is black, up to 2.5 cm in length. His head is large and very perceptible, for which they also call him Kravchik-golovich.

Kravchiki dig themselves deep mink, quite complex and large. This occurs mainly in early spring, during the mating period. Then the female begins the construction of the burrow. Common, not yet branched mink sometimes reaches up to 70 cm in depth.

Then the female lays one egg in specially prepared cells and proceeds to the stage, which is very dangerous for the future harvest. Kravchiki harvested plants, cutting grass and shoots.

From the green and their discharge, they form a sufficient number of cubes to fill the hole.This mass will later feed on the larvae of the beetle. Next year, the number of Kravchik will increase, and all cycles will be repeated again and again.

Kravchiki damage corn, sunflowers and, of course, grapes. These beetles are so thoroughly stocked up with food for their children that they can literally cut off all the shoots.

To get rid of those who live deep in the earth, chemicals are ineffective. As a preventive measure, you can advise a thorough and deep (60-70 cm) digging of the site. This depth should be enough for the burrows to freeze over the winter. The main way to get rid of the snow beetle is to collect it manually.

You can loosen the ground, filling up the entrances of the holes, you can dig around the area around the perimeter, putting in the formed grooves the grass treated with special substances - pyrethroids, but in any case you will have to collect pests and watch them appear.

Another effective method - the most odorous and cheap vegetable oil, diluted with water, pour into the burrows, and after kravchiki crawl out, collect and destroy them.

Rat

Rats are very smart. And also, like any rodent, dangerous because they are carriers of many diseases. At the cottage most often you can find a gray rat. People call it Pasyuk.

It is large enough, it can reach 27 cm in size. Pasyuk is omnivorous, swims well. It is he who digs holes in the gardens, not particularly deep, but branchy.

A rat is prolific - in a year it can give birth to 3 broods, up to 10 young in each. This large pest will fight with a major adversary if there is no where to flee. Pasyuk can even attack a person.

For addiction medvedki cabbage it is also called cabbage soup.

Kapustianka nests are shallow - only 10-15 cm from the surface. In them, the female takes care of her offspring. The nest has many branches and outlets.

The female regulates the conditions inside for the best development of the larvae - opens and closes the entrances, gnaws out the roots of the plants so that the nest warms up better. So the root system of plants is also affected sufficiently, which leads to their death.

Medvedka can winter in the ground at a depth of 2 m, and can winter in manure.Often it is with compost she gets to the gardens.

The fight against Medvedka, as well as with other pests, is not easy. To get rid of cabbage soup should be approached comprehensively, focusing on its features and habits. Consider some preventative and preventative measures. First way - loosening and digging. You need to try to dig no less than 15 cm deep. You need to do this procedure about 3 times for the whole season. So you will find the nests and eggs of a polar bear in the soil.

Land with eggs must be removed from the garden - poured into a bucket or other container. And if you stumbled upon an adult medvedka, then it also needs to be destroyed - crushed or cut.

Second way - lure manure. In the spring, piles of compost can be spread out around the garden - the bears will consider this a good place for their nests. Periodically check the heaps, and after finding eggs or an adult - destroy.

Medvedka will also prefer compost for wintering. At the end of autumn, open up several pits in which you want to put manure. When the cold comes - destroy and scatter the manure from the pits. Medvedka just do not have time to hide in the ground and freeze.

If the bear has already started, and until late autumn can simply destroy your garden, then it can be derived as follows.

First way - detergents. Water mixed with powder or soap, poured into the mink to the kapustyanka, either kill it or make it crawl out. Then it can be destroyed manually.

Second way - poisons and chemicals. Drugs such as Thunder or Medvetoks can simply be poured into minks, or mixed with wheat porridge and decomposed in places that need protection most of all, or near the mink. You can also use kerosene against water. Third way - traps. Kapustianka love beer and honey. A jar with a small amount of beer (up to 100 g) should be buried with a slope in the ground, leaving the neck at the top.

Neck must be wrapped with gauze. Medvedka gnaws through the fabric and falls into the jar, but she will not be able to get out of there. When the jar is full, the pests can be destroyed very easily.

If any of the above-mentioned pests are wound up in your garden, tune in to a long struggle and be sure first and foremost determine who is digging the land in your country house.

Most likely, some of the ways you do not fit, but certainly there is one that will be salutary. The best solution would be to use an integrated struggle using all possible methods.