ISHS Acta Horticulturae 525: International Conference on Integrated Fruit Production
INTEGRATED FRUIT PRODUCTION IN THE FOREST-STEPPE ZONE OF UKRAINE |
| Author: | A.S. Tertyshny |
| Keywords: | Integrated Fruit Production, sex pheromones, apple, plum, black currant, Krasnokutsk arboretum, parasites |
| Abstract:
The objective of our work was to develop a control system for pests of tree fruit and berry crops which would avoid the use of insecticides of persistent action. The subjects of the research were the most widespread fruit crops in Ukraine: pome fruit, apple, stone fruit, plum and of the berry crop, black currant. In this research, existing published methods were largely used. However in several cases we used our own methodologies. As part of this research, we made extensive use of sex pheromones for about 25 species of pests. [Tertyshny, 1996 (1), 1996 (2) and 1997]. We had also conducted observations on codling moth since 1977, and on plum moth since 1979. Additionally, we made use of the unique possibilities offered by one of the most ancient aboreta in Ukraine, the Krasnokutsk arboretum (XVIII ct.) In this arboretum are 568 species and varieties of trees and bushes, 112 of which belong to the Rosaceae family and, therefore, provided a rich fauna complex of parasites and predators. In course of the study, several insects which were new or rare in Ukraine, were discovered, and one parasite species of leafrollers turned out to be a completely new discovery. It was named by the founder of the Krasnokutsk arboretum Ivan Karazin, Exochus karazini Tolk. We also used a complex of other ecologically safe methods: agrotechnics, biological preparations, biologically active substances, micropreserves of useful pests, additional sowing of melliterous herbs, artificial places for overwintering and nidification, etc. As a result of this study, technologies that provide an opportunity to control the pests of fruit and berry crops, using ecologically safe methods only (e.g. for apple, plum and black currant) were worked out and applied for the first time in the Ukraine's forest-steppe zone,. | |
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