Use of pheromone traps against Tomicus
piniperda and Tomicus minor
in the Kazbegi National Park, Georgian Republic
Temel Gokturk1 and Yasar
Aksu2
1Department of
Forest Entomology and Protection, Faculty of Forestry, Artvin Coruh University,
Artvin Turkey.
2Artvin Forest
Department, Forest Protection, 08000, Artvin, Turkey.
Accepted
In the
forested lands of Georgia Kazbegi National Park, some kinds of insects have
been significantly harming the bark beetle of trees as their population
increases. The most harmful species within
the 100 ha area of the national park, where Pinus sylvestris L.
var. hamata (Steven) (Scots Pine) trees setle have been
identified as Tomicus piniperda (L.) and Tomicus
minor (Hartig) using bio-technic method (pheromone traps), has been
implemented against them. The damages of T. piniperda and T.
minor were measured from all the Scots Pine in Kazbegi National Park
in 2008. One of the newly developed control methods used in the field with
intensive T. piniperda and T. minor populations
is the bio-technic method. Prepared pheromone traps were hung up on trees
located in various places and captured insects were counted and the results
recorded in 2008. T. piniperda and T. minor trapped
in pheromone traps, hung from the pines of the Scots Pine outbreak area were
significantly greater in study area (109.5±2.1 and 118.2±1.8 beetle/trap, both
species respectively).
Key words: Tomicus piniperda, Tomicus minor, pheromone
trials, Kazbegi National Park,
Georgia.
Yayın yeri: Göktürk,T; Aksu,Y; Use
of pheromone traps against Tomicus piniperda and Tomicus minor in
the Kazbegi National Park, Georgian Republic. African Journal of
Agricultural Research Vol. 6(10), pp.2430-2435, 18 May, 2011
