Features of monitoring Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in urbocenoses of megapolis

O. Strygun; P. Chumak; O. Anol; Ye. Kivel; S. Tkachova

doi:10.36495/PHSS.2025.71.234-248

O. Strygun Institute of Plant Protection of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Uktraine, 33, Vasylkivska str., Kyiv, 03022, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7315-1473
P. Chumak Institute of Plant Protection of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Uktraine, 33, Vasylkivska str., Kyiv, 03022, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2053-2341
O. Anol Institute of Plant Protection of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Uktraine, 33, Vasylkivska str., Kyiv, 03022, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2183-8558
Ye. Kivel Institute of Plant Protection of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Uktraine, 33, Vasylkivska str., Kyiv, 03022, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8484-4199
S. Tkachova Institute of Plant Protection of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Uktraine, 33, Vasylkivska str., Kyiv, 03022, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6259-5757

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36495/PHSS.2025.71.234-248

Keywords: urban environment, monitoring, ash, invader, Agrilus planipennis

Abstract

Goal. Monitoring the phytosanitary condition of ash trees growing in parks, squares and botanical gardens of Kyiv, Boryspil, and Glyboky village in order to detect the beetle Agrilus planipennis (Fairm.) and improve methods for its detection in urban ecosystems.

Methods. Field — monitoring of invader detection, route surveys of ash trees. The studies were conducted in the laboratory of entomology and resistance of agricultural crops to pests of the Institute of Plant Protection of the NAAS and in botanical gardens, parks and squares of Kyiv and the region.

Results. When monitoring plants of the genus Fraxinus L. in ash plantations in 2022—2025, it was found that not all methods known in forestry for detecting the invader Agrilus planipennis can be unconditionally used in the conditions of the megalopolis coenoses. Certain methods for detecting the pest have been tested and improved. Species, varieties and forms of ash trees that are damaged by Agrilus planipennis (Fraxinus. excelsior var. aureovariegata Weston; F. excelsior var. aureovariegata Weston; F. angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa (M. Bieb. ex Willd.) Franco & Rocha; F. pennsylvanica Marshall; F. profunda (Bush) Bush; F. angustifolia subsp. siriaca (Boiss) Yalt.; F. sogdiana Bunge) and are tolerant to this beetle (F. excelsior var. excelsior, «Crispa», «Heterophylla Pendula», F. «Aurea», «Nana»; F. chinensis subsp. syriaca (Boiss.) Yalt; F. Pallisiae.

Conclusions. Methods for detecting the invader Agrilus planipennis (Fairm.) in the conditions of the forest ecosystem cannot be used in the urban environment for the most part. For the purpose of initial detection of the pest, it is necessary to use sticky traps for this species. To detect D-shaped holes at the top of the trunk, binoculars and a smartphone with megapixel resolution should be used, during the period when the trees are not covered with leaves. It has been established that removing damaged tree tops only delays the spread of the pest for 3—4 years, and cutting damaged plants to the stump and treating healthy plants growing nearby with biological insecticides contributes to the improvement of the biotope as a whole. Plants should be urgently removed if the following signs appear: drying of the tops, peeling of small areas of bark (woodpeckers' activity) and the formation of water shoots on the trunk. The results obtained have practical significance for monitoring the quarantine invader in urban environments, which contributes to the stabilization of its phytosanitary status.

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