Archives: News

During wartime, everyone strives to be useful. Undoubtedly, we all want to see our personal contribution to victory here and now. But everyone should be in their place and engage in professional activities. Otherwise, the economy simply won’t function, and defending Ukraine will become more difficult. Foresters in the Khmelnytskyi region continue to perform their…

With the beginning of the new vegetation period, the State Specialized Forest Protection Enterprise “Kharkivlisozakhyst” has resumed monitoring the population status of harmful insects – the top and six-toothed bark beetles, ash bark beetle and May beetle using pheromone, window and light traps. Reference: “Pheromone traps are designed to attract insects and butterflies using specific…

Modern problems of forest protection and ways to solve them. Belarus should serve as an example for us in coordinating the efforts of forest science researchers with educational institutions, enterprises of the National Academy of Sciences system, the Plant Protection Institute, forest protection services, etc. The absence of such coordination in Ukraine hinders both knowledge…

In Slobozhanshchyna, foresters are searching for solutions to the problem of dying ash trees. “Ash trees, ash trees, I see you beyond the village by the road…” – these words from a popular song came to mind in Sumy region, specifically in Trostianets Forestry, where chief foresters from regional forestry enterprises gathered with scientists from…

The United Nations declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health. Humans care about plant health primarily because we obtain food, raw materials, and building materials from plants, and we want to maximize the quantity and quality of these products rather than share them with insects, snails, and fungi. To protect future harvests, people…

For several recent years, foresters in Sumy region have been fighting against the top bark beetle that destroyed mature pine forests. Today, the population of this pest has decreased, but a new problem has emerged: ash dieback. To preserve ash plantations, specifically to determine the nature of infection spread and find practical methods to combat…

The oak lace bug (Corythucha arcuata), originally from North America, has become a serious threat to Ukrainian oak forests. First detected in Italy in 2000, it spread to other European countries and Turkey. By 2015, it reached Russia’s Krasnodar region, damaging over 1 million hectares of oak plantations by 2016. From there, it invaded Crimea…

During his visit to the Kharkiv region on July 31, 2020, Vasyl Kuzovych, the Head of the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine, visited the State Specialized Forest Protection Enterprise “Kharkivlisozakhyst”. Since 2018, the forest protection biological laboratory of SSFPP “Kharkivlisozakhyst” has been conducting research on the implementation of integrated forest protection methods within the…

For the third consecutive year, specialists from the State Specialized Forest Protection Enterprise “Kharkivlisozakhyst” have been implementing integrated forest protection methods against trunk pests in the pine forests of the “Svyate” nature reserve in Chernihiv. According to legends, the lake “Svyate” was the site of the baptism of Chernihiv residents in 989. Located in an…

The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is capable of infesting both weakened and healthy trees, inevitably leading to their death. This quarantine pest was first discovered in Ukraine in Luhansk region during summer 2019. In June 2020, acting director of the State Specialized Forest Protection Enterprise “Kharkivlisozakhyst” D.O. Baturkin, together with senior researcher K.V. Davydenko…