Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXVIII, Issue 1
Written by Cristina MOALE, Leinar SEPTAR
The southeastern part of Romania is the area that offers the most favorable ecoclimatic conditions for apricot cultivation. The territory of the RSFG Constanta is influenced, from a climatic point of view, both by the Black Sea as well as the Danube, which means that spring arrives later summers are droughty and autumns are long and warm. The dynamics of the population of harmful microlepidoptera was realized with the help of AtraLIN, AtraMOL, AtraNUB pheromone traps. Trapping by specific sex pheromones initiated in 2020-2022 in an apricot plantation at the Research Station for Fruit Growing (RSFG), to monitor three pests, peach twig borer (Anarsia lineatella), oriental fruit moth (Cydia molesta) and (Hedyia nubiferana). The results of the three-year study showed that in 'Elmar' cultivar The amount of catches was higher for Anarsia lineatella (AtraLIN)in the Olimp cultivar, 341 butterflies in the year 2022 and the lowest amount of catches was for Hedyia nubiferana (AtraNUB), 267 butterflies in the year 2022.
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