How to Reduce Pests in Edible Mushrooms? A Detailed Guide to Practical Control Techniques

1. Keep the edible mushroom farm 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 and the like to prevent adult flies, mushroom gnats and other insects from entering the room and causing damage.

3. Fumigation with chemicals. For indoor edible mushroom cultivation, under sealed conditions, fumigate with 2—3 tablets of aluminium 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, dilute with 10 kg of water, and spray evenly onto the compost, stirring the compost while spraying. After spraying, pile it up for 3 days to eliminate insect sources in the compost. 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.