It is a question of advantage amphibious and reptiles (frogs, toads, snakes etc.), destroying wreckers of plants.
The manager of a scientific museum of the Nikityosky botanical garden the candidate of bioyologichesky sciences S.A.Sharygin, izuyochayushchy various methods of protection of rasyoteniye from wreckers, considers that the bolyyoshy help in this case render amphibious and kowtowing.
The most simple and effective method of biological pest control of crops – attraction of those animals, which them pitayutsya. That it is necessary to involve that in the spring of birds in gardens and the kitchen gardens, clearly to everyone. Odyonako not all know that the majority of nayoshy migratory birds most intensivyono eat insects and vykarmlivayut them baby birds only in the first polovinu summer. When baby birds will get stronger, mnoyogy birds pass on vegetative pishhu. And here to the aid of the person in preservation of a crop that come zhivotyony which he usually doesn’t notice and even is afraid. It is a question about amphibious and kowtowing.
Sometimes it is necessary to observe, how people on ignorance kill nonpoisonous snakes, frogs, toads, tails to lizards tear off and consider itself as heroes. And here economists counted up that the person who has killed one snake, causes to a national economy a damage in one thousand hryvnias. In some countries of toads specially prodayut in the markets for gardeners. Unfairly unloved toads, frogs, yashcheyoritsa, snakes bring very big advantage, exterminating wreckers of agricultural industry. For example, snakes eat generally rodents (mice, polevkami, rats) and save up to us grain. And poisonous – give to the person poison for a priyogotovleniye of many drugs. All snakes need to be protected everywhere.
All warm period of year when zemnoyovodny and reptiles are active, they eat insects, their larvae, worms, slugs, wood lice. To Osobenyono are useful on kitchen gardens and melon fields of a toad which eat snails, caterpillars and slizyony at night when birds and other fighters of insects sleep.
All our species of amphibians and reptiles are useful and are now under zashchiyoty the law on protection and fauna use. The legless lizard zheltopuzik, for example, eats generally grape snails, slugs and nezamenima on vineyards.
Many species of lizards on prozhorlivosti can be equated to insectivorous birds. It is enough to tell that they poedayut such wreckers, as meadow motylek and the yablonevy plodozhorka, the distinguished ognevka, a scoop, a locust, cockchafers, weevils, a medvedok, some flies. And frogs and tree frogs catch mosquitoes in the evenings. A lake frog and green zhaba eat the Colorado beetle and an ameriyokansky white butterfly, bugs-shchitnikov and butterflies-listovertok.
It is a lot of frogs and toads vstrechaetsya in places where they can be lost (on buildings, near housing, even in houses). Unlike birds specially privlekat them it is difficult. Therefore the simplest that it is possible to make – it is careful their otlavlivat in such places and to let out in gardens and kitchen gardens. It is already experimentally established: where number of the zemnoyovodny and kowtowing is high, menshe wreckers.
If all people know, protect and impart each other knowledge of advantage of these imperceptible animals, maybe, in the future one person on the earth won’t have a desire simply so to kill a snake, a frog or a toad.
S. SHARYGIN.