From the frying pan into the fire, why it is not necessary to destroy nematode wireworms

"Fight fire with fire" - perhaps every Russian is heard apt expression. However, it turned out that in gardening and horticulture, this principle does not work, and even on the contrary - harm to your harvest.

IN Internet a lot written about the drug nematode nemabakt - it is sold in all garden centers. Nematode - these are small worms, which run into the ground on beds, in order that they destroyed wireworms, Colorado potato beetle and onion hoverflies.

Manufacturers promise that will devour the nematode larvae and adults of these pests. The record nematode thus should fall in the winter due to low temperatures

In fact, all this deception.

Nematodes do not eat the larvae. They are dangerous pests, but they are infected with symbiotic bacteria.

It works like this:

Infected nematodes settle in the land, begin to lead a normal life for themselves, infecting their relatives, which eventually die.

And what is the symbiotic bacteria?
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It is a special type of microorganisms that live in the same indissoluble community with all the insects: how pests, and useful! The bacterium is parasitic on insects and destroys them. But this bacterium destroys everything indiscriminately - good or bad microflora - it does not matter.

Tak that over time you can find in the ground only infected nematodes, and in the land will not remain useful even worms.