Insect monitoring using standard and innovative devices in new and fruiting apple orchards in Southern Russia
I. Balakhnina, A. Pachkin, D. Leptyagin [et al.]
// Research on Crops. – 2025. – Vol. VOLUME 26, No. ISSUE 4 (DECEMBER) 2025. – P. 611-617.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31830/2348-7542.2025.roc-1246
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