"Big-headed, big-eyed, and striped." Giant slugs and other pests are spreading across the region as the weather warms.
Some pests threaten agricultural crops, others threaten human health and even life.
????In Nizhniy Novgorod — an invasion of Spanish slugs, which indiscriminately consume garden crops. The slugs grow up to 12 centimeters in length.
"So big-headed, big-eyed, and striped. I'm already outside at five in the morning, setting traps and collecting them in a bucket."- said Olga, Nizhny Novgorod resident, adding: “catch” in just one morning— 170–200 slugs.
In some gardens, slugs have already eaten all the flowers. There are no universal measures to combat the pest, leaving residents to deal with it themselves. A year ago, Spanish slugs were already captured many regions;
????Magadaevsky cedar forest may disappear in the Tomsk region due to the invasion of the red pine sawfly. By last summer, 300 hectares of cedar forest had already were destroyed pest, local residents requested authorities to save the unique forest. This year, the sawfly has already begun its destructive work, so starting today, specialists will begin for processing cedar forests;
🐛The ticks have spread all around Russia, at the beginning of June 176 thousand people requested People were taken to medical facilities due to bites. Residents of the Sverdlovsk, Kemerovo, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Vologda, Kirov, Kostroma, and Novosibirsk regions suffered the most. Ticks are dangerous to humans: they transmit tick-borne encephalitis, a disease that often leads to death. The most high-profile case in recent years is Vsevolod Solovyov in the KareliaThe boy was bitten by a tick a year ago and he still has it. undergoing rehabilitation;
🐛Due to a snowy winter and warm spring, many Russian regions are experiencing a "mosquito apocalypse." Swarms of mosquitoes have been recorded in the Moscow region, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod, and Volgograd regions, Bashkortostan, and also in Sverdlovsk and Tyumen regions. Scientists predrekli The bloodsuckers will disappear once warm, dry weather arrives. Until then, we have to listen to their annoying buzzing.
Photo: Tomsk.RU, 74.RU
