How to reduce pests in edible fungi? Practical pest control techniques shared

1. Keep the mushroom yard clean. Before cultivation, the mushroom house should be thoroughly cleaned and evenly sprayed with an 800-fold trichlorfon or dichlorvos solution. For outdoor mushroom cultivation, clear the weeds around the cultivation site and spray the soil and the surrounding area with a 250-fold trichlorfon solution.

2. Prevent adult insects from entering the room. For indoor mushroom cultivation, nail 60-mesh fine gauze over doors, windows, ventilation holes, etc., to prevent adult insects such as flies and mushroom gnats from entering the room and causing damage.

3. Chemical fumigation. For indoor cultivation of edible fungi, under sealed conditions, fumigate with 2-3 tablets of aluminum phosphide per cubic meter of space to eliminate indoor insect sources.

4. Treat the compost. For every 50 kg of compost, use 15 ml of dicofol, mix with 10 kg of water, and spray evenly onto the material, stirring the material while spraying. After spraying, pile it up for 3 days to eliminate insect sources in the material. Alternatively, mix a 500-fold solution of 40% phoxim into the compost; both have good insecticidal effects.

5. Spray chemicals to kill insects. If pests are found before fruiting, spray the bed surface with a 500-fold trichlorfon solution, a 1000-fold "Kill" solution, or an 800-fold dichlorvos solution to kill the insects.