Entomological sensors using resource-saving technologies of growing agricultural crops in field crop rotations of the Forest Steppe of Ukraine

Anatoliy Babich
Abstract

During 2010-2022, in the field crop rotations of the Forest-Steppe of Ukraine with the use of the latest chemical means, the peculiarities of biology, ecology and distribution of soil and other harmful species of arthropods were clarified. In particular, according to the technologies of high-quality grain production through the use of tank mixtures of plant protection agents and relatively high rates of fats, which influenced the formation of the structure of the entomocomplex with the predominance of certain species of weevils, gnats, gnawing scoops and lamellae. According to the phenophases of cultivated plants, this feature was accompanied both by the state of biological resources and by the technologies of crop production in general, with the optimization of phytosanitary, nature protection and economically justified resourcesaving methods of controlling the number of phytophages. It has been established that in cultural ecosystems under intensive technologies in the composition of modern bioresources, the number of organisms, both flora and fauna, in particular, harmful phytophagous insects at the first stages of the formation and development of grain crops, probably changes. In the years of observation, it was noted that the biodiversity of agrocenoses is quite numerous in terms of species and quantity, mainly against the background of organo-mineral systems and under conditions of relatively low rates of application of fats. This makes it possible to model such processes by entomological and zoological objects as sensors, in particular from the standpoint of systematic monitoring and forecasting, as well as sustainable management on a resource-saving basis. At the same time, the long-term dynamics of the factors of the formation of entomocomplexes are taken into account, with the clarification of the influence of the systems of basic and minor nutrition, tillage and measures to protect grain and other crops, with an assessment of the selfmanagement mechanisms of the arthropod complex, and the dominant species are determined in the theological aspect. Based on the results of research, separate biocenotic relationships of cultivated plants and their harmful organisms under different nutrition systems of wheat, corn, soybean, chickpea, sunflower in periods of drought and relatively optimal weather conditions were clarified, with clarification of the levels of trophic chains of primary and secondary coenoses. The structure of arthropods of the newest systems of application of liquid forms of fertilizers, as well as with an assessment of the influence of tank mixtures of agrochemicals on the level of migration and survival of phytophagous insects in short-rotational crop rotations. The new parameters of grain crop protection systems with biologically oriented complexes based on entomological and zoological test objects of the factors of crop production intensification are substantiated

Keywords

entomocomplex; plant protection; monitoring; populations; nutrition; agrocenoses; pests; epizootics

Suggested citation
Babich, A. (2022). Entomological sensors using resource-saving technologies of growing agricultural crops in field crop rotations of the Forest Steppe of Ukraine. Biological Systems: Theory and Innovation, 13(2), 126-134. https://doi.org/10.31548/biologiya13(3-4).2022.131
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