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The next garden season is approaching, when in all auxiliary Russian farms are already preparing for planting potatoes. And How always, summer residents and gardeners with horror recall the previous summer – and all because of the Colorado potato beetle, which is difficult to get rid of.
Of course, there are dozens (if not hundreds) of folk ways fight against this infection of the potato field, but they are all involve a lot of labor and, to be honest, ridiculously (if you could laugh at it) – ineffective. To that But none of these methods allows you to destroy the Colorado beetle once and for all. However, this is impossible in principle, since the Colorado pest is not only fertile, hardy to the most incredible conditions (for wintering it lies deep in the soil) practically has no enemies in Russia, he also easily migrates – able to fly tens of kilometers.
You can, of course, collect it, and the most “effective folk remedies “, as shown, for example, in the video lower, but it’s all half measures, because on an empty seat tomorrow, another horde of Colorado pest arrives.
You can get rid of the Colorado potato beetle by simple moonshine
Logic suggests that the most effective means may be only processing of planting material, that is, the tubers themselves. Here just by making it easy and cheap for every gardener and, most importantly, an effective method? It turns out that there is such a way, allowing you to get rid of the Colorado potato beetle is a treatment planting tubers … ordinary village moonshine.
Rumor has it that this method was accidentally discovered when one of summer residents accidentally broke in the cellar, where potatoes were stored for planting, a bottle of moonshine, and thus found relatively easy and at the same time effective way to combat the Colorado potato beetle. After this case, the moonshine method is already on a scientific basis. the scientists who determined that in order to the Colorado potato beetle did not even approach the potato field, the tubers in front planting should hold for thirty minutes in a solution of moonshine with water – in a proportion of one to four.
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For greater reliability, some gardeners are the same moonshine potato seedlings are also sprayed with a solution, although this makes sense or not, no one really knows yet. To the “drunk potato” for some reason the Colorado potato beetle has a deep dislike, and therefore flies to where moonshine and does not smell.
Where did the Colorado potato beetle come from?
In 1859, these little striped bugs devastated potato fields all over the state of Colorado USA, from here it went the name is the Colorado potato beetle, although it comes from Mexico.
In the nineteenth century, it was more than once brought with potatoes to Europe, but successfully destroyed. And only since 1918, when he got into France, where they could not cope with it, the Colorado potato beetle began its marching triumphantly across all European countries and then got and to the USSR – approximately to the forties of the last century.
The worst thing is that in Europe and in Russia he has practically no enemies, and the most incomprehensible, why the Colorado beetle bypassed Great Britain – it has not been found there so far …
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