While the majority of the population is finally longing for warm, sunny days, foresters and forest owners look forward to every cool rainy day.
Because water and cold currently provide the best conditions for the troubled forest ecosystem, which the drought of previous years has severely damaged.
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- At the beginning of the holiday, it rained a lot for many students.
District forester Olaf Rahm was also on vacation, but doesn't complain at all about rain and cold: “The weather is wonderful.
A dream for the forest. ”He had to observe the result of past dry seasons in his area from Unterhaching to Sauerlach,“ especially the spruce could hardly defend itself against pests ”.
The persistent rain comes at just the right time: "The water reservoirs are being filled so that the dry periods can be better compensated for."
Bud shoots delayed
In the forest, the vegetation is about three weeks behind compared to previous years, observes district manager Julia Borasch, whose area stretches from Unterschleißheim to Putzbrunn. The dreary weather makes the forester confident, because it contains the greatest enemy of the forest, the bark beetle. “The bark beetle flew out later, because it doesn't like the wet, cold weather at all.” As a result, there is probably a generation less than usual. Normally, the pest swarms as early as the beginning of April. "This year the first swarm wave was only around May 9th," as a monitoring shows. This shortened the development period of the dangerous pest, which counteracts its spread. "If you assume that the bark beetle needs between six to eight weeks to develop,The second generation will swarm out in mid to late June and the third at the end of August. ”Due to the smaller population, fewer trees would be infested.
The forest owners association calls on forest farmers to look for drilling dust now after the first swarm wave.
Because now the use is most effective to skim off the population and prevent it from spreading.
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Area manager Julia Borasch is happy that the bark beetle rained a lot the first time it swarmed out.
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Farmers only expect delays
The relatively cool and rainy May has so far also been beneficial for agriculture. The harvest depends on “how the weather develops,” says Georg Kasberger, the head of the Department for Food, Agriculture and Forests in Ebersberg. Only in the grassland area, i.e. when cultivating forage with clover and pasture grass for the silage, could there be losses. The first cut was delayed here. Some of the grassland could not have been cut yet, "you need a few days of dry weather for that," says Georg Kasberger.
In arable farming, the vegetation is a good two weeks behind schedule. No statement can yet be made about the harvest. However, it could be tight towards the end. "For example, if you can't harvest the maize, which is normally harvested in late summer or early autumn, until late autumn, you could end up in a bad weather period."
