Question about agricultural producers

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Валерий А., 29.10.2007 22:45

A workmate approached me (as an entomologist) with questions, but I could not answer anything.
So, he was going to build a house using fashionable technology from environmentally friendly material. The principle is quite simple - an ordinary frame house, as a thermal insulation - straw (winter rye). Next, a special mesh is fixed on both sides and plastered. The wall thickness is 40-50 cm. In theory-cheap, environmentally friendly, good performance in terms of heat/sound insulation and vapor permeability.

And his questions are:
Since straw is used directly from the field, what types of insects will continue to live and reproduce there?
Is straw so environmentally friendly, is there any standard repeated treatment of crops with pesticides and other pesticides?

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Comments

29.10.2007 23:10, omar

This is a good and interesting question. I think that about pesticides, you should ask ordinary farm workers where the straw comes from-this is optimal. But, based on the modern experience of farming, I can say that no one is abusing pesticides now - it's expensive, and the state halyava has ended

with small insects and ticks remaining in the straw, this is inevitable, a fee for environmentally friendly material. Over time, mice and rats settle in such walls, and they feel very at ease there. Accordingly, it will be possible to get rid of them only by disassembling such a wall and folding it in a new way. Alas, free (or cheap, in this case) cheese only happens...that's right, at the entrance, chewed through this wall.