Fertilization Methods for Edible Mushrooms and Four Methods of Pest Control

1. Trap and kill adult insects: Adult mushroom flies, mushroom gnats and other adult insects are phototactic. You can set up black light lamps or fluorescent lamps, hang sticky boards around the lamps, or place a medicine box with dichlorvos solution under the lamp, so that the adults touch the pesticide and are poisoned.

2. Chemical fumigation: Under sealed conditions, use 2 to 3 tablets of aluminum phosphide per cubic meter of space for fumigation, to eliminate indoor insect sources.

3. Spray pesticide to kill insects: When pests are found before mushroom fruiting, spray the bed surface with a 500-fold trichlorfon solution or a 1000-fold decis solution to kill the insects.

4. Kill insects in the substrate: For every 50 kg of culture substrate, use 15 ml of dicofol, dilute with 10 kg of water, and spray evenly on the substrate, mixing the substrate while spraying. After spraying, pile it up for 3 days to eliminate insect sources in the substrate. Alternatively, mix into the culture substrate a 500-fold solution of 40% phoxim or a 1000-fold solution of 2.5% decis, both of which have very good insect-killing effects.