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  • Why Chestnut Trees Suffer

    Every spring, we enjoy their blooming as these trees unfurl their candle-like flowers, bringing joy to parks, alleys, and forests. Yes, we are talking about chestnut trees. However, it is often noticeable that these majestic alley trees start losing their natural color, turning yellow and shedding leaves prematurely, leading to their gradual decline. Chestnuts cannot…

  • Pine Seedling Fusarium Wilt Disease

    In modern forestry, where the primary focus is on reforestation and afforestation, one of the most challenging tasks is cultivating healthy and high-quality planting material. Currently, seedling production mainly occurs in protected environments (greenhouses). Among the numerous problems in growing Scots pine seedlings is fusarium wilt – an infectious disease caused by various soil-borne fungi…

  • INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOREST QUARANTINE ISSUES

    The international conference of the EPPO/FAO Working Group “Implementation of Phytosanitary Standards in Forestry” was held from June 9-11, 2015 in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, bringing together forestry and plant protection experts from across Europe and Asia. Over 50 representatives from 22 countries attended, including specialists from forest protection services and phytosanitary inspection agencies. Ukraine’s delegation was…

  • Experimental Production Works Against Web-Spinning Sawflies Conducted in SE “Izyum Forestry” of Kharkiv Regional Forestry Management

    Progress never stands still – new technologies, new methods. But sometimes it’s surprising that humans can fly into space and build tunnels under water, yet can’t overcome small insect pests. Nature cannot be deceived – as one harmful species declines, others emerge. In recent years, outbreaks of pine sawflies in the Forest-Steppe zone have been…

  • Experimental and Production Works Against Sawflies Conducted in SE “Izyum Forestry” of Kharkiv Regional Forestry Management

    Spring is a busy season for forestry – planting, the beginning of the fire-danger period, and pest control. The forests of Left-Bank Ukraine are located in areas with constant pest outbreaks, so every year the forest protection service together with forestry guards conducts treatments of pest centers to localize them and reduce defoliation levels. This…

  • MAY – THE SEASON OF MASS FLIGHT OF MAY BEETLES

    Everyone is familiar with “May beetles” from childhood, which can be seen almost everywhere each spring. However, not everyone knows how much damage these beetles cause to forest plantations when feeding in tree crowns, and how harmful their larvae are during development in the soil. The development of May beetle larvae lasts 3-4 years. During…

  • On May 14, 2015, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine appointed Oleksandr Kovalchuk as Chairman of the State Forest Resources Agency

    Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko emphasized that the tasks of the new head of the State Forest Resources Agency include reforming and deregulating the forestry sector, as well as integrating European standards and principles of operation. “I know Oleksandr Kovalchuk personally as an effective crisis manager and technocrat with extensive experience in large agricultural projects. I am…

  • Spring is the time of awakening of nature and forest pests.

    With the budding of tree and shrub species in the forest, active harmful activity of insects of the early spring phenological complex begins, which consists in damaging leaves, promoting the development of an infectious disease – oak powdery mildew, and sometimes – with prolonged, over several years, defoliation – and reducing tree growth. The most…

  • Ash Dieback Problem Addressed at International Level

    In Dubrovnik (Croatia) on April 12-18, 2015, another conference was held within the framework of the European COST ACTION FP1103 FRAXBACK project “Ash Dieback in Europe: Developing Recommendations and Strategies for Sustainable Forest Management”. Four years ago, European scientists initiated a unique action – the international COST ACTION FP1103 FRAXBACK project “Ash Dieback in Europe:…

  • Why Are Ash and Birch Trees Dying?

    In recent years, the dieback of ash and birch trees has been observed throughout Ukraine. The fungus causing ash dieback, Hymenoscyphus fraxineus (link: http://lisozahyst.org.ua/?p=473), arrived in Poland from Asia in 1992 and quickly spread across Europe, virtually destroying ash plantations. This disease causes necrosis and rapid death of ash trees regardless of their age or…