Four Methods for Pest Control in Edible Fungi and Notes on Water Supplementation

1. Trapping and killing adults: Adult mushroom flies, mushroom gnats and similar 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. Fumigation with chemicals: Under sealed conditions, use 2 to 3 tablets of aluminum phosphide per cubic meter of space for fumigation, to eliminate indoor sources of insects.

3. Spraying pesticide to kill insects: If 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. Killing insects in the substrate: For every 50 kg of culture substrate, use 15 ml of dicofol, mix with 10 kg of water, and spray evenly onto the substrate, stirring 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 have very good insect-killing effects.