How to control insect pests of Auricularia auricula during storage?

Auricularia auricula is a kind of fungus with high nutritional value, which is delicious to our body. Auricularia auricula has a lot of practices, whether fried or cold, are very crisp, very popular with consumers. Friends who cultivate Auricularia auricula will find a problem after picking Auricularia auricula. Auricularia auricula is particularly prone to insect pests during storage, so how to control it?

1. Stay away from the insect source

As we all know, there are many common pests in Auricularia auricula, such as termites, horned grain thieves, grain moths and so on. They often appear in the cracks in the warehouse, packaging items and sundries to spend the winter. So before we store fungus, we should clean up these sundries in the house and weeds outside, and use medicament to do disinfection measures, close for about two or three days, wait until after disinfection, we must do a good job of ventilation, and then put the fungus into the warehouse, and sprinkle some quicklime around the warehouse, so as to effectively prevent pests from invading the fungus indoors.

2. Kill pests in time

If insect pests are found during the storage of Auricularia auricula, corresponding measures should be taken to deal with them in time. First of all, you can put the fungus in the sun for a day, and if there is no sun, you can directly use the dryer to kill pests. Then we seal the warehouse for half a month so that we can kill the pests. Finally, the oxygen can be extracted from the warehouse and then injected with nitrogen, and the pests will die after two days.

3. Don't let the fungus get wet

Because of the weather, Auricularia auricula is very prone to the phenomenon of tide, because the occurrence of insect pests is very easy to occur after the tide, so it is necessary to dry the fungus when it is put in. Generally, the water content of Auricularia auricula can not exceed 12%, and then put it in aluminum cans or plastic bags to seal. If you put it in a carton, you must pack a moisture-proof bag, or you can put some quicklime or dry sawdust. Check every half a month to see if the dry thing has become moist. If it has become wet, it should be exposed to the outside or dried and put into the box, so that the fungus will reduce the tide. If the fungus has regained its moisture, it is best to re-dry it before saving it.

4. Fumigation

Fumigation is also a good way to prevent insect pests when storing Auricularia auricula. During specific operation, the warehouse must be sealed and then fumigated. The effect of this method is more obvious, especially for the occurrence of a large number of insect pests, it is generally enough to use a few grams per cubic meter, aluminum phosphide is used for fumigation, which can be dispersed in the warehouse, and it should be sealed for three days after fumigation. then ventilation for half a month to re-preserve fungus.

The above is the answer to the question about how to control insect pests of Auricularia auricula during storage. I hope it will be helpful to you.