During the cultivation of Oyster mushroom, common pests include flies, mosquitoes, Nematode, Podura and Limax which lay eggs in compost. Baby pests breed in compost, harm mycelia and rot the substrate. Adult pests eat and bite on stipes and mycelia of Oyster mushrooms. Therefore, during the cultivation and fruiting period, you should take goof preventive measures.
Specific measures: Look out environmental sanitation. Before you cultivate mushrooms, firstly spray Formalin, DDVP and Pyrethroid or fumigate with smoke agents before the sowing and inoculation. What’s more, be sure to close windows and door, if conditions permit, you could install screens so as to eliminate pests or mice.
Curative measures: When you find partial Green Mold or other sundry fungi, it is advisable to spray lime on contamination surface, or dip Potassium permanganate solution with cotton and then cover on sundry fungi so as to inhibit its spreading. When you find contaminated mushrooms, be sure to remove them out of greenhouse.
And during the fruiting period, you could spray pesticides right after picking a batch of mushrooms so that you avoid misshapen mushrooms.