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Research on Crops

Insect monitoring using standard and innovative devices in new and fruiting apple orchards in Southern Russia


DOI: 10.31830/2348-7542.2025.ROC-1246    | Article Id: ROC-1246 | Page : 611-617
Citation :- Insect monitoring using standard and innovative devices in new and fruiting apple orchards in Southern Russia. Res. Crop. 26: 611-617
IRINA BALAKHNINA, ALEXEY PACHKIN, DANIIL LEPTYAGIN, ALENA NESTEROVA, IGOR POPOV, TATIANA DOROSHENKO AND IRINA CHEBOTOK balakhnina@yandex.ru
Address : Federal Research Center of Biological Plant Protection, Krasnodar, 350039, Russia
Submitted Date : 3-10-2025
Accepted Date : 29-10-2025
Online Published:

Abstract

To develop ecological and organic gardening technologies, it is important to study the entomofauna of agrocenoses and ecosystems. The aim of the research is to study biodiversity using various devices and methods in new and fruiting apple orchards. Monitoring included visual counts, mowing with an entomological net, pheromone traps, and light traps. The research was carried out in organic, new and fruiting apple orchards from 2024 to 2025 in the suburbs of Krasnodar. When analyzing the results of the material obtained with various methods in 2024-2025, 47 phytophagous species from 10 orders feeding on apple trees were registered, 14 of which were the most dangerous, for all types of fruiting orchards. Using pheromone traps, the flight characteristics of three species of codling moths: apple Cydia pomonella the oriental Grapholita molesta and the plum Grapholita funebrana were determined for new and fruiting orchards. When monitoring light traps, Lepidoptera species from 14 families were the most diverse and abundant. The majority belonged to the family Noctuidae, comprising 15 species. The total number of the Noctuidae family representatives was 854, of which 499 were found in the fruiting orchard and 355 in the new one. A total of 79 insect species were recorded, 71 of which were in the fruiting apple orchard and 74 in the new one. Primary consumers (phytophages) accounted for 59.15% and 56.76%, in the fruiting apple orchard and new one, respectively. Insects from the Lepidoptera order, neutral to apple trees but harmful to other crops, were identified: three species of Noctuidae, four species of Pyraustidae, and a food-storage pests from Pyralidae. Processing the obtained data using the Margalef diversity index revealed that the difference in both orchards was insignificant: 4.8 ± 0.7 in the fruiting orchard and 4.4 ± 0.9 in the new orchard. This indicates a depleted insect fauna.

Keywords

Apple orchard biodiversity entomocenosis garden agroecosystem neutral species phytophages

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