Plague on the advance – why potato pills are now also plagued homeowners

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The vermin spread quickly on the fields due to climate change. If the fields are empty, don’t stop at gardens.

They are striped black and yellow, about ten millimeters long and become more and more. Because the increasing drought promotes the population of potato pins. There are now several generations per year.

Usually the beetle remains on the potato fields of the same name, where farmers have to bully the massive appearance despite careful management. “We farmers can no longer make the potatoes inaccessible. If companies no longer grow certain cultures because they lack the necessary tools to bring the plants healthy in the harvest, this is a warning signal,” Lorenz Mayr, vice president of the Chamber of Agriculture in Lower Austria.

Because the use of pesticides is precisely regulated and can no longer be used after harvest, a lot of vermin remains on the field. The result: you need other plants for maturing and the capture of egg. She then increasingly pulls it in settlements, where they feel good and pollute them, especially on yellow house walls. On hot days, the beetles migrate to a few hundred meters.

ParadeiSer instead of potatoes
Instead of potatoes, paradise or Melanzani from the gardens are on the menu. Homeowners have no choice but to collect and throw away the annoying insects. Depending on the weather, the beetles can perform more and more until September. “We need solutions that work in practice,” demands Mayr a reconsideration of dealing with the potato pins.

Source: Krone

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