Pine lumber. % needles of the total

On the section, early and late tracheids are visible, performing conductive and mechanical functions. Early tracheids are almost always square, have a large internal cavity, and in the radial walls there are bordered pores that look like 2 two-pronged forks in a transverse section. On low-quality (thick) sections, one can see that in the place of bordered pores, the walls of the tracheids seem to bifurcate, and the thickening between the teeth - the torus is not visible.

Late tracheids are thick-walled, flattened along the radius, bordered pores are rare on them.

On the section, you can also see the core rays in the form of dark stripes running in the radial direction and representing a structure of cells elongated in the direction of the beam.

Vertical resin canals are clearly visible in late wood, surrounded by lining cells and accompanied by a layer of living (accompanying) cells with reserve nutrients. Between the cells of the accompanying parenchyma there are intercellular spaces, the lining cells are surrounded by a layer of dead cells. The lumen of the vertical resin channel in the transverse section is about 80% of its diameter.

Fig 1. Cross section of pine wood:

1 - late tracheids; 2 - early tracheids; 3 - core beam; 4 - vertical resin passage; 5 - bordered pore; 6 - boundary of the annual layer.

The diameter of the vertical resin channel in the cross section is:

Radial cut

Tracheids in the form of long cells are clearly visible on the radial section. In early wood, they are wide and have many large bordered pores in the form of 2 concentric light spots on the radial walls. Late tracheids are narrow, there are few bordered pores in them and they are smaller than in early tracheids, and instead of an inner circle they have an oblique slit.

Tracheids cross the medullary rays. They look like dark stripes and consist of marginal (dead) cells with small bordered pores that serve to conduct water from layer to layer along the radius and medium (live) cells with simple pores that look like large bright spots.

Sometimes a vertical resin canal in the form of a hollow channel lined with epithelium with membranes comes across on a cut.

Rice. 2. Radial cut of pine wood:

1 - early tracheids; 2 - bordered pores; 3 - vertical resin passage; 4 - late tracheids; 5 - core beam

tangential cut

On the cut, the core rays are visible, cut across, in the form of vertical chains of different lengths.

Tracheids on the radial walls have bordered pores in the form of forks.

Resin ducts, cut across, can be seen in large core rays in the form of vertical spindles. These are horizontal resin passages, consisting of the same elements as the vertical ones. They connect the vertical resin passages of different annual layers. Sometimes, on a tangential section, one can see a longitudinal opening of the vertical resin passage.

Rice. 3. Tangential cut of pine wood:

1 - horizontal resin passage in the medullary ray; 2 - early tracheids; 3 - bordered pores; 4 - core beam; 5 - vertical resin passage.

The diameter of the horizontal resin channel on the tangential section is equal to.

The evergreen Pine is a symbol of immortality and vitality. Even in winter, when nature sleeps, this beautiful green tree reminds us that spring is coming soon.

In the old days Pine branch considered magical. The Western Slavs kept the branch for a whole year and only replaced it with a new one on New Year's holidays. She guarded the peace and well-being of the hut and was a kind of amulet against evil forces. And now in the villages you can find the "spruce" of Pine, standing in a vase as a decoration.

Pine name

Origin Pine names. One of the two versions produces the Latin name of the tree from the Celtic word pin, which means rock, mountain, that is, growing on rocks, the other - from the Latin words pix, picis, which means resin, that is, a resinous tree.

Widespread in Russia Scotch pine". Most often it is found in the northern part of the country and in Siberia. Pine trees form forests mixed with other species, as well as pure forests, popularly referred to as "pine forests". The soil for the Pine is diverse - from arid and rocky places to swampy areas.

Pine He loves sunlight very much, so in the forest among his fellows, the trunk stretches up, from which it takes the form of a mast. No wonder they were previously used in shipbuilding.

On the Pine plain looks completely different. Having spread the branches, it takes on bizarre shapes and curvatures, dense crowns and zigzags. The trunk becomes stocky and powerful, like a hero.

Pine Needles have a green color with a bluish tint.

Pine Bark- reddish-brown and cast copper.

Pine Wood- a yellowish tint due to the high content of resin in it. It is not for nothing that during the construction of the log house, the lower crown always consisted of pine logs in order to avoid rapid decay. That is why some buildings from the times of ancient Novgorod have been preserved.

When the Pine Blooms

Pine blossoms May or June depending on the weather. A mature tree is considered 80-100 years old.

In April, on quiet sunny days, standing next to this fabulous idol, you can hear a barely perceptible pine seed clicking. This dried up and the cones began to open, releasing the ripened winged seeds. These seeds will give life to new trees.

By the way, pine cones are an excellent fuel for Russian samovars and a favorite delicacy. protein and birds.

Medicinal properties of Pine

Pine is used as an expectorant, diaphoretic and diuretic. Pine has an analgesic property and kills disease-causing microbes in the body.

Sap- a thick light yellow liquid flows out of the damaged branches and trunks of the Pine. Possessing antibacterial properties, it prevents the penetration of harmful microorganisms into the trunk.

If there was no first-aid kit in the forest due to injuries and scratches, instead of a plaster, you can apply clean Zhivitsa to the wound. It is also able to relieve toothache, so medicinal chewing gum is made from resin in some regions.

Has an antibacterial effect burning tar smoke. Rooms, cellars and barrels for salting are “fumigated” with smoke.

For pain in the joints and muscles, another component of the resin is used for grinding - turpentine.

Pine- that rare tree that goes into business completely from head to root.

Pine Bark cut well. It can be used in the manufacture of floats and crafts.

In folk medicine Pine is used most often in the form of decoctions, tinctures and tea. Infusion and decoction of the kidneys of the plant are used for inflammation, cough, bronchitis, dropsy and liver diseases.

From pine needles prepare an infusion and decoction, used as a prevention of beriberi.

From pine pollen you can make a tea that helps with gout and rheumatism. Pollen mixed with honey is used after a major operation or illness.

In the Caucasus, young cones and flowers of Pine make delicious jam.

Amber- lain in the ground for millions of years pine resin. Thanks to the resin, scientists had a chance to study prehistoric insects frozen in Amber.

By the shape of the crown and branches of Pine, geologists can determine the composition of the soil.

During the war, in the villages, they removed the thin bark from the Pine trees and scraped off the "pulp" - the living layer of the tree. It was dried and mixed with flour.

Thin and long pine roots were used to make dense “root” dishes in which starch, sand or salt were stored.

Another use of the roots is as fuel in lamps. In the old days, when fishing on a sharp night, only Pine roots went into the lamp to avoid unnecessary crackling of firewood, which could scare away the fish.

In 1669, near Moscow, in the village of Kolomenskoye, the first wooden royal palace. Pine logs served as the material, while the carpenters did not use a single nail. In the palace there was a whole a thousand windows and 270 rooms. Unfortunately, to this day the structure has survived only in memories and drawings.

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In the article we talked about the structure and properties of wood and its areas of application. This publication describes in detail the wood of coniferous species, from larch to yew.

Softwood

In construction, coniferous wood is most often used because of its greater strength, biostability and lower production costs compared to hardwood.

In addition, softwood trunks have a more regular shape with fewer defects. The most popular among conifers in construction pine, spruce, larch, fir and cedar.

Juniper and yew are not used for the manufacture of building elements. These rocks are valued as a good finishing material and are used mainly for the production of joinery and furniture.

• Larch

Larch (Larix) - coniferous tree genus Larix of the pine family (Pinaceae). Differs in durability, lives up to 900 years or more and reaches a height of 45 m with a trunk diameter of 80-180 cm. It occurs naturally in the east and north-east of the European part of Russia, in the Urals, in Western and Eastern Siberia, Altai and Sayan Mountains.

This is the most common breed in Russia. It is 2/5 of the forested area. The breed is sound with resin passages. Has a beautiful texture. Annual layers are well distinguished in all sections. The sapwood is narrow, white with a slight brownish tint. The heartwood is reddish-brown, sharply different from the sapwood. The core rays are not visible, the resin passages are small, not numerous.

Wood contains essential oils (pinene), has a rather strong pleasant smell and includes bioflavonoids and phytoncides - microscopic volatile substances that evaporate during the entire period of operation and have a positive effect on health, preventing colds and viral diseases.

- an excellent building material, since it has a high density and strength, there are few knots in it, it belongs to the group of biostable (does not rot and is not affected by fungi). Larch is strong, resilient, hard, durable, resists rot and insects well. Prolonged exposure to water leads to an increase in the hardness of larch, which is why it was used for the construction of bridges and piers. All Venetian buildings stand on larch piles.

Larch wood easily cracks during the drying process, splits. It is more difficult to process other breeds on the machine (due to the high density and resinous content). Resins make planing, polishing and varnishing somewhat difficult, but in general the wood is successfully stained and polished after appropriate filling.

The best wooden buildings are built from this type of wood. It is used for the manufacture of joinery, window frames and for flooring.

Bulk weight at standard humidity (12%) is 650–800 kg/m3.

• Pine

Pine (pinus) . Eurasian tree coniferous species, grows in the territory from Scotland to Eastern Siberia. It occupies about 1/6 of the area of ​​all forests in Russia. Lives 400–600 years and reaches a height of about 30 m in adulthood (120–150 years). The most common Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris).

The breed is the most popular building material, because it has the most straight, even trunk. Pine is well impregnated with antiseptics.

The rock is sound, with resin passages, soft, moderately light, mechanically strong, non-plastic. It is well processed and finished.

It has a slightly pinkish heartwood, which becomes brownish-red over time, a wide sapwood from yellowish to pink, clearly visible annual layers with a clear boundary between early and late wood, rather large and numerous resin ducts.

Wood of medium density, medium hardness, sufficiently high strength and resistance to decay, well processed, relatively well glued. It is widely used in construction, mechanical engineering, furniture and container production, in railway transport, for fixing mine workings, etc.

It is used as a raw material for chemical processing in order to obtain cellulose, fodder yeast; Pine timber products are exported in large quantities.

Volumetric weight at standard humidity (12%) - from 460 to 620 kg/m3.

• Norway spruce

Norway spruce (Picea abies) - evergreen coniferous tree pine family (Pinaceae), 20–50 m high, with a cone-shaped crown and flaky brownish-gray bark. Lives up to 300 years. The trunk is round, straight.

Grows in damp places, on rich loamy soils, rising to the mountains to a height of up to 1800 m above sea level (forms pure spruce forests). Widely distributed in Central, Northern and North-Eastern Europe above 69 ° north latitude, north of the Pyrenees to Russia and Scandinavia.

Other types: Ayan spruce (Picea ajanensis), Korean spruce (Picea koraiensis), Siberian spruce (Picea obovata).

Spruce is a non-core ripe wood species. The wood is white with a yellowish tint, low resinous. Resistant to cracking. The annual layers are clearly visible. In terms of strength, density and resistance to decay, spruce is in no way inferior to pine. However, it is more difficult to process it, compared to pine, due to the large number of knots in it and their increased hardness.

Spruce is very susceptible to insect attack.

Spruce wood characterized by the largest value of the acoustic constant, which characterizes the emission of sound. Tannins are obtained from the bark of spruce. The wood is soft, easy to process, polish, and also varnished. It is used in the same areas as pine, but especially in the pulp and paper industry and in the manufacture of musical instruments.

• Cedar

Cedar (Cedrus) - a genus of coniferous evergreen trees of the pine family. It reaches a height of 36 m or more and a diameter of 1.5 m. It grows in the mountains at an altitude of 1300–3600 m, forming cedar forests. Distributed in the Atlas Mountains, in northwestern Africa (Atlas cedar), in Lebanon, Syria and the Cilician Taurus in Asia Minor (Lebanese cedar), on the island of Cyprus (short coniferous cedar) and in the western Himalayas (Himalayan cedar).In Europe, cedar is often grown in gardens and parks.

All types of cedar wood is similar in color. The light brown or yellow-brown heartwood, which acquires a uniform brown color when exposed to the weather, differs from the narrow whitish sapwood.

Resinous (oily), with a sharp cedar smell. The annual rings are clearly distinguished by the contrast between the zones of early and late wood. Medium texture. The fibers are usually straight, although straightness is more common in himalayan cedar. Longitudinal sections of this cedar show uneven brown lines formed by frequent tangential rows of traumatic resin ducts. Resistant to damage by fungi and insects.

Cedar wood is soft and easy to work in all directions. Cedar dries quickly and without major problems. Resin must be removed before finishing work.

On the territory of the Urals and Siberia, cedar was used as a finishing material for dwellings. In Tobolsk, Tyumen and Turinsk, buildings decorated with carved architraves from its wood have been preserved. Cedar was also used for the manufacture of joinery.

Today it is used only for exclusive interior work, for yacht finishing and interior decoration, and for the manufacture of wooden houses from logs (most often hand-cut).

Bulk weight at standard humidity (12%) is about 580 kg/m3.

• White fir and Caucasian fir

white fir (Abies alba) . A coniferous evergreen plant of the pine family, 30–50 m high, with a narrow pyramidal crown. Trunk up to 150 cm in diameter, with white-gray smooth bark. Places of growth - the mountains of southern, middle and western Europe, prefers very fertile soils.

Fir is very similar to spruce, but unlike fir, fir does not have resin accumulations. The color of the wood varies from yellowish white to reddish white with a gray tint. Fir trunks often suffer from atmospheric pollution, insects, animals that eat young shoots.

Easily processed, well covered with most varnishes and paints. The wood is soft, moderately weather resistant and resistant to fungi and pests.

The volumetric weight in the air-dry state is about 450 kg/m3.

Caucasian fir (Abies nordmanniana) in terms of its physical and mechanical properties, it is in no way inferior to spruce, unlike Siberian fir, which has a lower density and strength. It is used for the manufacture of wood structures, musical instruments, and is often used together with spruce in the manufacture of furniture.

It is very common in housing construction (especially Caucasian fir). Previously, shingles were made from fir (along with spruce), which covered the roof. Now these are mainly door and window blocks, floors, skirting boards, friezes and many other products.

Bulk weight at standard humidity (12%) is about 450 kg/m3.

• Juniper

Juniper (Juniperus) . Most junipers are shrubs, but in southern Karelia there are also tree-like forms up to 12 m high and 16 cm in diameter. The only representative cypress family (Cupressaceae) in the northern forests. It occurs both in dry pine forests on sandy soil, and in spruce forests, excessively moist and even swampy.

It grows slowly, frost-resistant, photophilous. Poorly tolerates smoke and soot. Distributed in the northern and middle parts of the European territory of Russia, in Western Siberia, enters Eastern Siberia.

Juniper is a sound breed. Near the bark is a narrow light yellow band of sapwood, forming a wavy ring of irregular shape. Inside the ring is red-brown wood of the core. Over time, the sapwood becomes dark yellow with a greenish tint, and the heartwood acquires beautiful olive-blue hues. On the end section of the juniper, the annual layers are clearly distinguished. The texture is beautiful, with a reddish tinge, sometimes striped or wavy. Especially effective in cross section.

Juniper, unlike other conifers, does not have resin passages, so it easily accepts various dyes and is easily polished. Strong, heavy and dense juniper wood well processed by various cutting tools. The cuts are clean and glossy.

Juniper wood has a slight shrinkage; when wet, it practically does not swell. It can be successfully used for very thin flat-relief and three-dimensional carvings; small decorative items, canes, sculptures, small crafts and toys are made from it. End cuts are used in inlay.

Volumetric weight at standard humidity (12%) is about 920 kg/m3.

• Tiss

Tiss (taxus) is a very ancient breed. An evergreen coniferous tree from the yew family (Taxaceae), about 20 m high (the highest known height is 27 m), trunk thickness is 1 m. The crown is wide spreading, very dense. The needles are soft, flat, dark green, located on the branches in two rows.

Yew berry and yew spiky

Yew berry (Taxus baccata) grows in the mountains of the Caucasus and Crimea. It is often called European because it is found in almost all of Western Europe. The range of the yew berry also covers the regions of Western Belarus (Belovezhskaya Pushcha), Western Ukraine (Bukovina), the Southern Crimea, the Caucasus, as well as the Azores, the mountains of Algeria, Asia Minor and Syria.

The second kind is yew pointed, or Far Eastern (Taxus cuspidata) , distributed in Primorsky Krai and Sakhalin. The wood is hard and heavy, almost does not rot. Sometimes there are nodules on the yew, densely covered with very short shoots with pale needles.

The life expectancy of the yew berry is up to 1500 years, and sometimes up to 3-4 thousand years. Sapwood and heartwood yew wood are very different from each other. The color of the core is from red-brown to orange-brown.

A characteristic sign of yew wood is tiny black dots, ideally grouped on the surface. The annual layers are sinuous and look like wide, dark rings.

Yew is easy to dry and process. Its wood is toxic and must therefore be handled with extreme care. It has a beautiful texture and is used for making furniture and as a finishing material, it is very durable and goes to various carpentry crafts.

Volumetric weight at standard humidity (12%) is about 620 kg/m3.

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Stem pests make up a large environmental group insects that feed on the tissues of tree trunks; in the phase of the larvae lead a hidden lifestyle. These include insects mainly from the order Coleoptera: the families of bark beetles, barbels, goldfish, weevils, etc., as well as horntails (order Hymenoptera), wood borers and glassworts (order Lepidoptera).

Stem pests have varying degrees of activity. Some of them attack trees without visible signs of weakening, others - only very weakened, almost lost their vital functions, or fallen trees. In this regard, back in the last century, a dispute arose about the ability of insects of this group to colonize healthy trees and about the appropriateness of calling them "secondary pests." It is now generally accepted that the activity of stem pests depends on the environmental conditions in which they live.

Stem pests belonging to different families differ greatly in their structure and biology. Therefore, each family is given a separate characteristic. All stem pests are united by a similar ecology and, above all, their relationship with tree species.

Tree colonization

Most stem pests are oligophagous and occur on several related tree species. Within the preferred tree species, the process of selection and colonization of trees by stem pests is determined by the successive action of attractants, which provide primary attraction, and pheromones, which cause secondary attraction (see Chapter IV). When flying, insects are guided by the smell of trees suitable for colonization. Such trees usually enhance the production of attractants due to changes in their physiological state.

After the first insects settle on the trees of the corresponding physiological state, they begin to release pheromones, which dramatically increases the attractiveness of the tree. These insects are called "first settlers". The more of them, the stronger the effect of the released pheromones and the faster the further settlement and development of the tree by pests.

A change in the physiological state of trees is usually associated with a violation of their water regime. In conifers, this reduces the pressure of resin, which mechanically and toxically protects trees from the attack of stem pests, the pressure of the bast layer of the bark changes, and in hardwoods, the amount of sap released. In general, it can be said that weakened trees undergo profound changes in many physiological parameters. At the same time, many trees, mobilizing their internal reserves, restore the disturbed normal state and successfully repulse the attacks of the "first settlers". So, after a ground fire in a pine forest, you can often see tar funnels and attempts to stick pine beetles on the bark of trees. These are traces of a failed insect attack on the tree. In deciduous species, overgrowth of the initial settlements of barbels and borers is often observed as a result of intense callus.

Trees inhabited by stem pests die off differently. This is due to the nature of the weakening of the tree and the sequence of their settlement. There are two main types of tree weakening: root and vertex.

All causes that weaken the root systems of trees (ground fires, drought, changes in groundwater levels, soil compaction, root sponge, honey agaric, etc.) lead to root-type drying. In this case, drying starts from the lower part of the trunk, which is the first to be populated by pests. The crown at this time is often still completely green and the upper part of the tree is free from pests. A characteristic dead wood with a green crown is formed.

Under the influence of damage by resin cancer, needle-eating insects, gases, etc., trees begin to dry out in the crown area. The crown may already be infested with insects while the lower part of the tree is still viable. This type of weakening is called vertex.

Along with these two types of weakening of trees in the foci of stem pests, there is a type of simultaneous weakening of the entire tree, when it is populated by insects all over the trunk at once. Finally, individual parts of the tree may die off in places of damage (burns, cuts, frost holes, cancerous wounds, etc.) and be colonized by pests. This type is called local extinction.

Ecological groups of stem pests are determined by the nature of tree death in the outbreaks and the time of their weakening. Depending on the time of weakening, for each type of death, subtypes are also distinguished: spring and summer. The established types of extinction made it possible for A. I. Ilyinsky (1931, 1958) and his students to develop generalized schemes for the formation of ecological groups of stem pests, which facilitate the work of forest pathological surveys, supervision and design of control measures.

centers of mass reproduction

In the case of mass colonization of trees by stem pests, foci are formed in the forests. Conventionally, foci include weakened forest stands, where there are more than 10% of trees inhabited by pests.

In weakened plantations, insects find excess food due to the trees that have lost their vitality, on which they settle. As a result, there is a rapid increase in the population of stem pests. As the number of pests grows, there are less and less uninhabited trees in the plantation. When all weakened trees are colonized, the density of pests on the tree begins to increase. An increase in density first contributes to a better survival of pests, and then leads to the development of competition between them, the mass appearance of entomophages and diseases.

Foci of stem pests in plantations are formed as a result of drought, winter frosts, a sharp disturbance of the groundwater level or flooding, erosion, massive damage by needle- and leaf-eating insects, vertebrates, fires, lightning, wind and snow, smoke and gases, and fungal diseases as a result of violations of sanitary rules in forests, thinning of plantations, soil compaction and damage to root systems during grazing, etc.

Each focus in its development goes through several phases. Usually distinguish between emerging, active and fading foci. They differ in the ratio of trees of different categories and the state of populations of stem pests.

In emerging foci, weakened trees predominate, some of which are inhabited by pests. Active foci are characterized by the fact that trees freshly infested with pests dominate over spent ones (old dead wood). In fading foci, there are most of all dead trees already worked out by insects (or remaining stumps) and very few weakened and freshly settled ones.

The focus can operate for a different number of years. It depends on the reasons under the influence of which it arose, and on weather conditions. Distinguish between temporary foci, or episodic, acting from one to several years, and chronic foci, acting for many years. The latter are most often associated with places where fungal diseases develop and forest stands growing in unfavorable conditions.

The centers sharply differ from each other depending on the reasons causing them. Even in stands that are identical in terms of forest growth conditions and taxation indicators, foci of different types of stem pests can form and develop differently.

The most common types of lesions are discussed below.

Gary. Temporary outbreaks arising under the influence of forest fires are especially common in forests.

The colonization of burnt areas by stem pests depends on the time of the fire, the intensity of the fire and the size of the fire, the age of the plantations damaged by the fire, and also on the forest conditions. The sanitary condition of the burnt areas, the stock of pests in the surrounding plantations, and weather conditions also have a great influence on the spread of stem pests.

By the time of the fire, the fires are divided into spring (April - May), summer (June - July) and autumn (August). Most often, there are spring fires, which are populated by pests in the year of the fire and pose the greatest danger in terms of insect reproduction. August burns are usually not populated by pests in the year of the fire.

There are a lot of changes going on in the mountains. Trees weakened by fire dry out, are damaged by pests and die. The reaction of different tree species to fire damage is different. Trees with thick bark, deep root systems, highly raised crowns and low resin content suffer less from fire. Pine, larch, oak - fire-resistant species, spruce and fir are most affected by fire, Siberian cedar occupies an intermediate place.

One of the most important signs characterizing the state of stability of the main forest stands damaged by fire is the height of soot on the trees. With an average soot height of up to 2.5 m, the loss from the forest stand does not exceed 25% in terms of stock, at 2.5-4.4 m - 50, and at 4.5 - 6.5 m - 70%. Deposits of more than 6.5 m are accompanied by over 70% of the stock. The most reliable sign is the condition of the crown (Galas'eva, 1976).

A runaway ground fire is not dangerous to the life of the plantation. Only individual trees lose their protective properties, become unviable and are populated by pests. In such burnt areas, five years after the fire, the total mortality in terms of stock will not exceed 5%, and pest foci do not form.

A stable ground fire in middle-aged and mature plantations causes burns of root paws and root collars of trees, drying of the bast and tarring of water-carrying vessels, leading to disruption of the crown's water supply. The resin-releasing reaction falls primarily in the lower part of the trees, and many of them are populated by pests in the first two or three years. On small burnt areas, up to 5 hectares in size, the maximum colonization of trees by stem pests falls on the first or second year after the fire, on large fires - on the third or fourth, and sometimes even in the fifth year. The sequence of colonization and the duration of stay of stem pests on burned areas depend on the time of their formation, forest conditions and geographical location.

The impact of fire on the intensity of the decay of trees in burnt areas and their infestation with stem pests increases with the growth of littering of plantations. At the same time, the completeness and shape of forest stands are of great importance. The mortality decreases with an increase in the density of plantings. Lower temperature and high air humidity, as well as calm in full forest stands, weaken the intensity of the fire. In rare forest stands, due to other phytoclimatic conditions, the environment for the development of fires is more favorable. In addition, in rare forest stands, the number of the most dangerous stem pests is higher.

A rampant fire that burns roots, trunks, branches, leads to the fall of some trees and their significant charring, and therefore does not have a significant effect on the reproduction of stem pests.

After the influx of pests to the burnt area, the reverse process begins - their outflow and dispersion in the surrounding plantations, in which cluster foci of bark beetles (in coniferous forests) and borers (in deciduous forests), and then an increased mortality of trees begins.

To prevent this phenomenon, it is necessary to use the burned area as a trapping area, to eliminate pests on it faster and more completely, preventing them from spreading into the surrounding plantations.

Fungal diseases. The reproduction of stem pests is closely related to the foci of fungal diseases. Stem pests are usually the direct cause of the death of trees in the foci of the root fungus and honey agaric. The dying off of trees goes according to the butt type. The forest zone is dominated by the spring subtype of colonization, dominated by pine beetles. In the forest-steppe and steppe zones, the weakening of the diseased tree occurs due to increased transpiration, which cannot be satisfied by the work of the damaged root system. Therefore, the summer subtype of butt colonization occurs more often, starting with the colonization of the blue pine borer and the six-toothed shorthand bark beetle. Then they are joined by black pine barbel and stem resin.

In spruce plantations infected with root rot, mass reproduction of stem pests is observed only in drought years. The spring subgroup of species predominates - mainly the typographer; he is accompanied by a double and an engraver. The role of the summer subgroup (fluffy polygraph, spruce resin, barbel) depends on the composition, age and density of plantations and is usually small. Trees in spruce plantations most often die according to the stem type, there is a transition from the butt through the stem to the apex.

Resin cancer most often causes local weakening and death of parts and tissues of the tree, due to the development of a cancerous wound in the crown of the tree. Stem pests inhabit the part of the tree located above the cancerous wound. The top dies off, but the tree continues to live for a long time. If the cancer wound is located under the crown, the weakening and death of the tree occurs according to the apex type. Such trees are the first to be attacked by the apical bark beetle, quickly reaching a very high abundance due to reproduction on branches, which, as a rule, are not harvested during sanitary felling. Together with it, the small pine beetle, four-toothed bark beetle, smolevki, barbel of pine peaks, etc.

In deciduous plantations, there is a close relationship between the spread of a number of vascular and cancerous diseases of tree species and the reproduction of stem pests. So, the centers of Dutch disease are almost always places of mass reproduction of elm sapwood.

Droughts. After severe droughts, pockets of narrow-bodied borer in oak forests, bark beetle in spruce forests, Altai barbel, and larch borer in larch forests appear.

The emergence of foci of stem pests in plantations damaged by needle- and leaf-eating pests was indicated earlier (see Chapter VIII). This usually happens in coniferous plantations, especially in the breeding grounds of the Siberian silkworm. Black mustaches follow in the footsteps of his injuries. The most dangerous black fir barbel. Settling on trees devoid of needles, it quickly increases in numbers. The hatching adults fly to neighboring plantations, where, in the process of additional feeding, the trees are weakened and thereby prepare the food base for the next generation.

anthropogenic influences. The systematic resumption of planting by shoots leads to its degeneration. Any such plantation is weakened and conditions are created for the reproduction of stem pests.

Coppice plantations are incomparably more infested with large oak barbel than seed plantations. The unsatisfactory condition of hornbeam plantations and the appearance of pockets of narrow-bodied hornbeam borer and hornbeam sapwood are also associated with their coppice origin.

The thinning of stands below the normal density for a given habitat, the increase in the perimeter of the edges, strip cutting lead to an increase in illumination, disruption of the normal forest environment and weakening of the forest stand. In such forest stands, as a rule, there are centers of reproduction of many stem pests. In deciduous forest stands, the pioneers are borers, in spruce stands - bark beetles and barbels, in pine stands - blue pine borer, apex bark beetle and stenographer, black pine barbel, in larch - oblong bark beetle.

Long-term foci also often occur in plantations that are biologically unstable, growing in poor forest conditions, or when the type of crops, tree species and their mixture do not correspond to these conditions.

In weakened plantations, stem pests find an excess of food due to the trees that have lost their vitality, on which they settle. As a result, there is a rapid increase in population. As the number of pests grows, uninhabited weakened trees become less and less. When they are all populated, the density of pests on the tree begins to increase. At the same time, at first the number younger generation increases, and then, at high and very high tree population density, it begins to decrease. At this time, the length of the uterine passages decreases, the number of eggs laid in them decreases, and the mortality of larvae increases. The density of pest settlement on a tree also affects the effectiveness of their enemies.

Control measures

The fight against stem pests consists of the supervision of their mass appearance and distribution, the implementation of sanitary rules and chemical control measures.

Supervision

Surveillance is organized in all forestry enterprises and carried out by groups of stem pests. In accordance with the general principles, special surveillance is carried out in the form of reconnaissance - in order to detect mass reproduction and the area of ​​foci of stem pests, and detailed - to assess the dynamics of the number of insects and their threat to plantations.

Detailed supervision is carried out by methods of forest pathological examination, and in chronic foci it is supplemented by annual observations on stationary test plots, which are established for 10 years. With detailed supervision, the root cause of the weakening of plantations is clarified, their condition, species composition and main groups of stem pests are determined, and indicators of their population dynamics are recorded. Based on the results of the received forecast, pest control measures are assigned.

During detailed supervision on trial plots, trees are recalculated by condition categories (healthy, weakened, severely weakened, drying out, fresh and old dead wood), then models are taken from among freshly populated trees and the species composition of stem pests, population density and multiplication factor for leading species. It also takes into account the state of the population, the presence of entomophages and diseases.

On the basis of surveillance data, in combination with an analysis of meteorological indicators and an assessment of the sanitary condition of plantings, a forecast is made and pest control measures are designed on its basis. The threat of the upcoming colonization of plantations by stem pests is determined by the ratio of trees of different categories (mostly inhabited to uninhabited, but strongly weakened) and the multiplication factor.

Sanitary regulations

are aimed at preventing the mass reproduction of pests and diseases in forests through systematic sanitary felling and maintaining the established regime - harvesting logging residues and debarking wood.

In the forest, it is necessary to carry out systematic cleaning of dead wood and dead wood, select trees freshly populated with pests and drying trees, if necessary, carry out selective and clear sanitary felling. breeds.

When designating forest areas for sanitary felling, one should pay attention to the fact that excessive thinning of plantations leads to a loss of tree stability and to their death. It is necessary to strive to ensure that after selective sanitary felling, the planting density is not less than 0.7, and in rare stands - 0.6. Areas where more than 40% of trees are infected with stem pests and dry out are allocated for clear sanitary felling. The exception is previously sparse, already deranged plantations.

Plantations planned for clear sanitary felling must be preliminary examined by the commission (it is appointed by the director of the enterprise) and all documentation is drawn up in accordance with the requirements of the "Sanitary Rules in the Forests of the USSR".

One of the main tasks of forest care felling is to improve the sanitary condition of the forest and increase the resistance of forest stands against pests and diseases. Therefore, when thinning forests, first of all, trees infected with stem pests, withered tops, having mechanical damage and prone to pests, physiologically decrepit, are cut down.

Final felling planning

When planning forest cuttings, it is necessary to strive to maximally compress the perimeter of cutting areas, since cluster foci of stem pests most often appear along the edges, avoid striped and rocker felling, take into account the direction of the prevailing wind, first of all, develop burnt forests, windfalls, windblows and other categories of foci of stem pests described above. pests and stands where they may occur.

From among the active measures to combat stem pests in forestry, the following are used: sampling of freshly planted trees, laying out trapping trees and chemical control of insects.

Sample of newly populated trees

Sampling of freshly planted trees is carried out systematically in all plantations that are threatened by the risk of reproduction of stem pests. It cannot be identified with the usual selective sanitary felling, which consists in the removal of dried and faut trees.

On the trunks of freshly planted trees to be cut down, the forest guard puts marks, which are checked by specialists: a technician, a forester or a forest pathologist. Trees inhabited by stem pests are recognized by one of the following signs: the presence of drill flour at the base of the trunks, resin funnels and small holes - insect inlets - on the trunks, abundant streaks of resin along the trunk, blisters on the trunks filled with blackish or brown protruding on the surface with liquid (plaques), notches made by barbels for laying eggs, along sparse foliage, sometimes along a yellowed crown, damaged roots, dark cambium. In doubtful cases, a thorough examination is necessary with the opening of a section of the bark, under which there should be insect passages.

Trees newly populated by stem pests should be cut down at a time when larvae are under the bark. It is impossible to stretch the felling time, since young beetles that have appeared can remain on the ground during felling and skinning of trees and crawl away. Felled trees must be immediately debarked or treated with pesticides, which is much easier and more cost-effective.

Laying out trap trees

Laying out is advisable only if sanitary rules are observed and at the same time a selection of freshly populated trees. When laying out trapping trees, it is necessary to take into account the environment relevant types stem pests, geographical location of plantations, their forest conditions, sanitary condition, direction of the economy, the number of bark beetles. Trapping trees must be laid out in time, debarked and developed in time, otherwise they will turn into a breeding ground for stem pests.

The number of trapping trees in one or another part of the forest should correspond to the number of trees inhabited by stem pests in the previous year. The number of stem pests is determined on model trees during the examination of foci. Model trees are taken from among the newly populated ones and the species composition of stem pests is determined on them, and the number of leading species is determined by the number of uterine passages (marriage chambers) in bark beetles and by the number of larvae (or their escape into wood) in barbels, borers and elephants. With a high number of pests of trapping trees, there should be no more than the total number of inhabited trees, with an average number - no more than half, with a weak one - no more than a quarter. If it is impossible to determine the number of stem pests, trapping trees are laid out on the basis of materials on the release of last year's dry (bark beetle) forest.

There are several ways to lay out trapping trees: by leaving them on the vine, artificially weakening or cutting down and laying out whole trees with a crown, whips or assortments. For greater capacity, the trees are laid on linings 15 - 20 cm thick. It is better to spread the hunting trees in groups, and not scattered throughout the plantation. You need to start laying them out a month before the start of the flight of bark beetles: in late February - March against the first generation and in June - July - against the second.

The debarking of hunting trees should be carried out after hatching of the bulk of the larvae, but it is more expedient to replace it with a chemical treatment with a 16% concentrate of the hexachlorane gamma isomer emulsion. Processing of hunting trees should be carried out before the start of flight of those stem pests that are being controlled in the area. In the southern regions, repeated chemical treatment of hunting trees is required after 1.5 - 2 months. If trapping trees are not treated in advance, they can be sprayed during the period of mass pupation and the appearance of young beetles, however, the effectiveness of the control is reduced.

chemical fight

Chemical control of stem pests consists in protecting the trunks of weakened trees during the flight of pests, destroying them during additional feeding, processing freshly planted and hunting trees, forest products in the forest and in warehouses.

Chemical protection of weakened trees consists in treating them with pesticides before and during the flight of the main bark beetles, barbels and borers.

The best results are achieved by spraying tree trunks with 3% working fluids of 16% mineral oil emulsion concentrate of hexachlorane gamma isomer and 4% solution of technical hexachlorane in diesel fuel. In the chemical protection of tree trunks, the nature of the bark must be taken into account. When processing thick and transitional bark, it is advisable to reduce the strength of the working solutions used (up to 2 - 4%), but increase the fluid flow, since the cracks and crevices of the bark on such trees are deeper. The liquid consumption in this case should be 0.6 - 2 liters per 1 m2 of bark surface. When processing the smooth bark of trunks and branches, the consumption of the working solution is reduced to 0.2 - 0.4 l per 1 m2, since it flows unproductively from its surface; the concentration of the solution should be increased to 6-10%.

The success of chemical treatment of weakened trees that have been attacked by stem pests largely depends on compliance with the terms of protection. Therefore, it is very important to conduct systematic phenological observations and it is good to know the time of appearance of the main pest species found in the area of ​​protected objects. You should also pay attention to what part of the tree trunk each of these species inhabits. If the butt part of the trunk is populated in the area of ​​thick bark, you can limit yourself to processing only this part. It is much more difficult to protect trees that are populated by pests from the tops. Treatment of crowns with the same preparations often gives an inferior result, but it is possible. It can be carried out to combat elm sapwood, large pine beetle, black barbel, etc.

Along with the protection of weakened trees in valuable plantations, beetles can be chemically destroyed on freshly populated trees before their emergence and in wintering areas. Newly planted trees are cut down and, instead of debarking, they are chemically treated in the same way as standing, weakened trees. At the same time, the pesticide flows into the cracks of the bark, the inlets of insects and, seeping under the bark, destroys larvae, pupae and hatching young beetles. The surviving beetles come into contact with the poison on the surface of the bark and also die.

The fight in wintering areas is carried out by spraying the soil surface, root paws and bases of tree trunks, where many bark beetles and elephants hibernate (liquid consumption is 0.25 - 0.5 l per 1 m2).

The chemical control measures outlined above are successfully used against hidden-stem insects that spend part of their lives or their entire lives under the bark of trees and only for some time shallowly in the wood (bark beetles, borers, part of the longhorn beetles, elephants). The corrosive chemical method has not yet been sufficiently developed against wood-living glass and wood. Possible methods of control are described in the description of these types of pests.

Overview of individual species

Coleoptera (Coleoptera)

Bark beetles (Scolytidae)

Bark beetles form a relatively small family of beetles, whose life is closely connected with the tree. They have a short, cylindrical body with a small head. The largest bark beetle of 300 species found in the USSR is about 9 mm long, and the smallest is 1 mm. The color of beetles is usually brown, brown or black. The body is covered with strong leathery elytra, under which there are well-developed membranous wings, with the help of which the beetles fly. Eggs of bark beetles are white and small. Larvae are fleshy, legless, slightly curved, with a clearly visible dark head, naked or slightly hairy. The pupae are white.

According to external signs, bark beetles are divided into three groups that differ sharply from each other: beetles, sapwood and true bark beetles (Fig. 93).

In beetles, the rear end of the body is convex and rounded, as is typical for most other beetles.

The sapwood is distinguished by the shape of the abdomen, cut obliquely from the hind legs to the top of the elytra, due to which the posterior end of the body resembles a chisel.

Real bark beetles have a deep cavity (wheelbarrow) at the posterior end of the body, surrounded by teeth and forming a kind of wheelbarrow or basket. The number of teeth and their shape are different in different species, but are constant for each species.

Features of the body structure of bark beetles are closely related to their lifestyle. Bark beetles spend almost their entire lives under the bark of tree trunks and branches. There they lay moves that have the shape of certain figures. Each species of bark beetle has a course of a certain shape.

Moves are simple and complex. Simple passages consist of one channel, which is gnawed by the female and is called the uterine passage. They are longitudinal and transverse. Complex passages have several channels and are divided into star-shaped with a slope to the longitudinal and transverse directions and radiant (Fig. 94).

Each species of bark beetle always settles on a certain tree species or several related species and occupies a certain part of the tree. So, for example, a large pine beetle usually inhabits a tree in its lower part, where the bark is thick, and is very rarely found on the top of a pine tree, where the bark is thinner, and a small pine beetle, on the contrary, inhabits a tree with a thin bark and does not settle under a thick one. .

There is a connection between the shape of the passages, the place of settlement of bark beetles on coniferous trees and the structure of the resinous system. In the lower part of the trunk, where there are fewer resin walkers, bark beetles make longitudinal passages, and in the upper part of the trunk, where there are more resin walkers, there are bark beetles that make transverse and stellate passages.

The flight of bark beetles usually begins in spring and lasts until mid-summer. The first (at the end of April) pine beetles and other bark beetles that live on pines begin to fly. Then spruce bark beetles and sapwood appear, living on hardwoods.

Bark beetles create a family during the breeding season. At the same time, some species of bark beetles, usually bark beetles and sapwood, have a monogamous (monogamous) family, consisting of a female and a male, while others, mainly bark beetles proper, have a polygamous (polygamous) family, consisting of one male and several females.

In monogamous bark beetles, the female gnaws an oblong inlet on a tree and lays a longitudinal or transverse uterine passage under the bark. On both sides of the passage, the female lays eggs in specially arranged egg chambers, sealing them with a small amount of very small sawdust, compacted and glued together with secretions from the accessory sex glands. The larvae hatched from the eggs gnaw on the larval passages. They gradually expand as the larvae grow and end in pupal cradles in which the larvae develop into a pupa and the pupae into adult beetles. The beetles hatch almost white, but gradually acquire their normal color, gnaw out round openings and fly out for additional food or for wintering.

In a polygamous family, the male gnaws the inlet. Under the bark, he arranges an irregularly shaped cavity - a marriage chamber, in which several beetles can fit. Females sequentially enter the chamber (from 2 to 12). After mating, each female begins to gnaw through her uterine passage and lay eggs. The uterine passages depart from the marriage chamber in different directions.

If the uterine passage is directed up the tree trunk and is against the inlet, drilling flour (sawdust) is poured out through the marriage chamber and this hole is out. From the uterine passages directed downward or located at an angle, drilling flour itself cannot spill out. It is thrown out of the course by the male with the help of a wheelbarrow located at the end of the body.

Among bark beetles, there are species that gnaw through the inlet, ending in an expanded short uterine passage, where the female lays eggs in one or several groups at once (dendrocton beetle). The hatched larvae gnaw through a joint family larval passage, which is an extensive cavity usually filled with resin. Some bark beetles lay their eggs in a cluster at the end of the uterine passage, but the larvae gnaw on individual passages in different directions (Crifala bark beetles). The main types of bark beetles are shown in fig. 94.

The smallest bark beetles (body length 1.2 mm) of the genus Crypturgus climb into the passages of other bark beetles and begin to lay their own passages from their edges, forming a dense network.

Bark beetles that live in wood (woodworms) have their own characteristics. The female usually gnaws through the uterine canal perpendicular to the axis of the tree trunk. Feeding canals originate from the uterine canal, from which in some species larval passages begin, in others the larvae do not make independent passages and use only those made by the female.

Woodworms have a close relationship with fungi, which are constantly in the intestines of beetles and get into the wood with them. In the wood, the females produce "sowing the mushroom" before laying eggs. The released spores of the fungus fall into favorable conditions of moist wood, immediately germinate and form a mycelium. The larvae feed on the mycelium and due to this are fully provided with nitrogenous substances, which allows them not to expend energy on making long moves in the wood.

Flight and oviposition of bark beetles last about a month. The egg phase lasts 10 - 14 days, the larva phase - 15 - 20 days, pupa - 10 - 14 days. Thus, the entire life cycle is completed in 1.5 - 2 months, after which a period of additional nutrition begins, which is necessary for the full development of the reproductive system.

Additional food for most bark beetles passes under the bark of a tree, where they gnaw out short passages of various shapes, called mines. Some species, such as pine beetles, gnaw out the inside of young shoots, which, unable to withstand their weight, break off and fall to the ground. A number of sapwoods feed on juicy bast in the forks of twigs, and rhizomes feed on the trunks of young pines.

The cold resistance of bark beetles is closely related to the nature of their wintering. Those of them that always have one generation (pine and ash beetles) overwinter in the beetle phase at the base of trunks, trees in short mine passages in the thickness of the bark or in the forest litter. Due to the snow cover, they are little vulnerable during low temperatures. Young beetles, pupae and larvae wintering under the bark of trees in their nests react differently to low temperatures. If such wintering is common for the species, the larvae can withstand temperatures down to -30 ° C, if unusual, then many die already at -15 ° C.

High summer temperatures can also cause high mortality of bark beetle larvae and pupae. Often, under the influence of sunlight in June, the temperature under the spruce bark rises above the upper thermal threshold for the development (usually above 40 ° C) of bark beetles, and their larvae die en masse.

Bark beetles have varying degrees of activity, however, as a rule, completely healthy trees do not populate. Many of them, in addition, are sensitive to ambient conditions of light, temperature and humidity, being typical indicators of certain habitats.

In different geographical areas, the number of species of bark beetles and their activity are different. The fauna of bark beetles of the Caucasus and Far East. Many endemic species are found in Central Asia.

Control measures with bark beetles common to the group of stem pests are described above.

The most widespread and economic importance have the following types.

On the pineLarge pine beetle (Blastophagus piniperda L.)(Fig. 95). Beetle 3.5 - 4.8 mm long, oblong, black-brown, shiny, elytra punctured and have two slightly deep grooves on the sloping part. It flies in late April - May and is the first to colonize weakened trees in pine plantations of different ages, especially in burnt areas and in the foci of the root fungus. Under the thick bark of the lower part of pines, females grind a longitudinal single uterine passage from bottom to top, 3 to 23 cm long, without a nuptial chamber. The moves are imprinted on the sapwood, and their edges are heavily pitched. Larval passages are long, winding. Young beetles hatching in June - July gnaw out exit holes and fly into the crowns of neighboring trees, where they bite into the shoots of the current, less often last year, and eat away the core, as a result of which the shoots break off. One beetle can damage up to seven shoots. In autumn, the beetles leave the crown and hibernate at the base of pine trunks, making short passages in the thickness of the bark. One-year generation.

Lesser pine beetle (Blastophagus minor Hart.). The beetle is 3.4 - 4.0 mm long. Very similar to the previous species, but the elytra usually have a reddish-brown color and there are no deep grooves on their sloping part. The beetles fly one to two weeks later than those of the large beetle. Females grind through the thin bark in the upper part of the pines transverse, deeply imprinted on the sapwood, uterine passages that look like brackets. The length of the uterine passage is from 4 to 32 cm. Short larval passages are directed in both directions from the uterine passage along the tree trunk. Each one ends in a crib deep in the sapwood. Young beetles pass additional food in the crowns, gnawing shoots, and hibernate in the forest litter. One-year generation.

Both species of pine beetles are shade-loving, found everywhere in a wide variety of forest stands. The large beetle dominates the small beetle in wetter forest types. Both are well attracted to hunting trees.

In the Far East, the Korean cedar is harmed by the widespread Far Eastern Siberian pine beetle(Blastophagus pilifer Spess.), reminiscent of the lifestyle of a small pine beetle. There, in the mountain forests on the Sayan spruce, another representative of this genus settles - Far Eastern spruce beetle(Blastophagus puellus Rt.).

Both species have an annual generation. Big economic importance they do not have what distinguishes them from European species that cause great harm.

six-toothed bark beetle(Ips sexdentatus Voern.) (Fig. 96). Beetle 5 - 8 long, more often 6 mm, brown, shiny. There is a wheelbarrow at the end of the elytra, with six teeth on each side. Settles in the lower part of pines under a thick bark. One - three very long (up to 50, and occasionally 70 cm) wide (3 - 4 mm) uterine passages depart from the marriage chamber, sharply imprinted on the sapwood. The larval passages are shorter than the uterine passages, weakly touch the sapwood, strongly expand at the end and end with pupal cradles on the inner surface of the bark.

Widely distributed in Europe. It occurs in the mountains, harms fir and spruce in the Caucasus, and in Siberia and the Far East - cedar. In Yakutia, Altai, and in the European part of the USSR, it is a typical pest of Scots pine. Flight usually begins at the beginning of May, however, high in the mountains and northern regions of Siberia, it is observed only in the first ten days of June and is very extended. The young generation of beetles hatches in 40 - 50 days. Young beetles immediately begin additional feeding, gnawing short star-shaped passages. Winters in forest litter or mine cods under thick bark. Generation is one-year, and in the southern regions - double.

The species is photophilous, xerophilous, populates weakened pines in the foci of the root fungus, on burned areas, in sparse plantations, in forests affected by needle-eating pests, especially the Siberian silkworm. Inhabits forest products in cutting areas, multiplies strongly in places of selective felling, goes well on trapping trees.

Apex bark beetle(Ips acuminatus Gyll.) (Fig. 96). Beetle 2.2 - 3.7 mm long, brown, shiny, slightly hairy; on an elongated wheelbarrow there are three teeth. The flight of beetles takes place in early May. The beetle settles in the upper part of weakened pines, where it makes very characteristic moves. One to eight uterine passages depart from the marriage chamber, 5 to 50 cm long and 2 mm wide. The uterine passages are clogged with drill flour, the larval passages are short, rapidly expanding, rare, deeply imprinted on the sapwood. Generation is one-year, and in the south of the USSR - double. The species is exceptionally photophilous, often settles on pines infected with resin cancer, in sparse plantations, especially where tapping was carried out or there was a reproduction of needle-eating insects.

Four-tooth engraver(Pityogenes quadridens Hart.). The beetle is 1.5 - 2.3 mm long, brown, the wheelbarrow has four teeth on each side. Inhabits the tops and thick branches of pines. It resembles the apical bark beetle in its passages and lifestyle, but is less active and photophilous. Generation is usually one-year, but may be double in the south.

bark beetle(Orthotomicus suturalis Gyll.). The beetle is 2.5-3.5 mm long, dark brown, shiny, the cavity on the slope is oval, has three teeth on each side, they are shifted inside the cavity. The uterine passages are winding, sharply imprinted on the sapwood, three to seven passages depart from the marriage chamber, their length is up to 3 cm, their width is 1.5 mm. Larval passages are frequent, long, winding. Settles on all conifers, prefers pine and cedar. Flight in May, very stretched. Young beetles hatch in. July and undergo additional nutrition, drilling into the wood. They hibernate under the bark, concentrating 15-20 pcs. in stellate passages near the butt of weakened trees (Zemkova, 1965). One-year generation. Actively influences the drying out of forest stands passed by fire. It predominates in poles, where it inhabits trees along their entire height.

Striped woodstalker(Trypodendron lineatum Oliv.). It inhabits weakened pine trees, rarely spruce and other conifers in the area of ​​thick bark simultaneously with the large pine beetle, but makes its moves in the wood. The generation is one-year, in the south (Crimea, the Caucasus) it is double, the beetles hibernate in the litter. Shade-loving, hygrophilic species, goes to hunting trees. It causes great technical damage and spreads a fungal disease - blue wood.

A number of species of small bark beetles settle on thin branches in the tops of crowns of pines of different ages, which, with the apical type of tree death, can cause significant harm to them. Among them, the Siberian engraver (Pityogenes irkutensis Egg.), Lesser steppe beetle (Carpohoborus minimus Fabr.), and others are very common.

On the spruceTypograph bark beetle (Ips typographus L.)(Fig. 97). Beetle 3.5 - 5 mm long, dark brown, sloping depression on the elytral slope has four teeth on each side, spaced at an equal distance from each other; the third tooth is the largest, thickened at the apex. One - four uterine passages 10 - 15 cm long depart from the nuptial chamber in the longitudinal direction. Larval passages are frequent, slightly sinuous, do not touch the sapwood (Fig. 98).

Flight in May - June. Beetles settle mainly in the lower and middle parts of the trunks on old and thick, less often young, spruce and other coniferous trees. The generation is one-year, in the south of the range - two generations per year. Additional food - in places of development. Beetles hibernate in mine passages under the bark or in the forest litter. If the development of the second generation is delayed, larvae and pupae overwinter in passages and often die out during winter frosts. Kind of light-loving, plastic.

Typographer - dangerous pest spruce, populates it in all cases of weakening, occurs in the mountains up to 1800 m above sea level, its mass reproduction has repeatedly been catastrophic.

double bark beetle(Ips duplicatus Sahib.). Very similar to the typographer, but a little smaller. There are four teeth on each side of the wheelbarrow, but the two middle ones are close together and are on a common basis. The strokes are slightly narrower and shorter than those of the typographer, sometimes slightly sinuous. The flight starts a few days later than the printer's. Inhabits predominantly younger and thinner trees, entering areas with thin bark. The species is photophilous, breeds in sparse plantations, populates the remaining undergrowth in cutting areas. Good for hunting trees.

spruce engraver(Pityogenes chalcographus L.). Beetle 2 - 2.9 mm long, dark brown, with a reddish-yellow narrow wheelbarrow, equipped with three teeth on each side. The moves are complex, stellate. Three to five uterine passages depart from the marriage chamber. Usually accompanies the two previous species, inhabiting the tops and branches of trees of different sizes and ages. In the southern part of its range, spruce can produce two generations per year. Additional food in the places where young beetles hatch, where they overwinter. The species is photophilous, plastic, has a very wide distribution. In addition to spruce, it is often found on pine. The first weakened trees rarely populate.

Large spruce beetle-dendrocton(Dendroctonus micans Kug.). Beetle 5.5 - 9 mm long, dark brown or black. The short uterine course is expanded from the side. The larvae gnaw on the family passage in the form of a large cavity filled with resin and clogged with sawdust. The hatching of beetles takes place in August. They hibernate and the next year in the spring, the females gnaw out the uterine passages and lay 250 eggs each. The larvae hibernate. Generation is usually biennial. Damages spruce and pine. In Georgia it is a dangerous pest of eastern spruce, in the south of Western Siberia it is a pest of pine crops, in the European part of the USSR it forms cluster foci in spruce forests and marshy pine forests. The biological cycle of Dendrocton is characterized by a strongly extended phase of an adult insect and larvae, which can be found under the bark of trees at any time of the year (Kolomiets and Bogdanova, 1978).

Fluffy beetle(Polygraphus polygraphias L.). The beetle is 2.2 - 3 mm long, black-brown in color, covered with scales, which makes the elytra appear brilliant gray from above. Flies in May - June, has one generation per year; Prefers birch and middle-aged spruce forests, inhabits trees with smooth bark, starting from 1 - 2 m in height. It is especially common in burnt areas and in the foci of the root fungus, in the taiga part of the forest zone it tends to be more sparse, and in the area of ​​broad-leaved forests to denser plantings. Actively populates trees at the very initial weakening, does not go very willingly on trapping trees.

purple beetle(Hylurgops palliatus Gyll.). Equally often inhabits spruce and pine in the area of ​​thick and transitional bark; view is shade-loving and hygrophilic; widely distributed in the forest zone, prefers windfall and windfall; does not populate the first growing trees.

In the taiga zone, a number of species of bark beetles are common on spruce. Micrograph bark beetle (Pityophthorus micrographus L.) reproduces in large numbers on thin twigs, Chalceid beetle (Xylechinus pilosus Ratz.) in the middle part of the trunks, autograph bark beetle (Dryocoetes autographys Ratz.) and others in the lower part.

In Central Asia, a number of bark beetles live on the Tien Shan spruce, which are absent on other coniferous species. They bring great harm and often contribute to the mass extinction of plantings. The most dangerous and common species is the mountain Kyrgyz bark beetle (Ips hauseri Reitt.). Flies in May, inhabits weakened old and middle-aged trees, windblow, southern edges along slopes, undercuts in logging sites. This is a light and heat-loving species, in many ways reminiscent of a typographer and just as dangerous in mountain forests.

On a fir. Siberian fir is most often inhabited by bark beetles living on spruce. A typical pest of white, whole-leaved and Sakhalin fir in the Far East and about. Sakhalin is a white fir polygraph (Polygraphus proximus Blandf.). It actively colonizes fir in the centers of the Siberian silkworm, in places of scree, landslides, windfalls and windfalls, colonizes felled trees and piles of timber. The flight is very long and the generations are confused; in Primorye, apparently, two, and in the Khabarovsk Territory and mountain forests - one. Supplementary food in the places of hatching of beetles that hibernate.

Widely distributed on European, white and Caucasian firs hook-toothed bark beetle(Pityokteines curvidens Germ.). It settles under the thick bark of weakened and felled trees, forms foci in places of erosion processes, in forests disturbed by felling and infected with fungal diseases. The flight is in May, the generation is one-year, the beetles hibernate in mine passages, in the thick bark of growing trees. It causes significant harm in the Carpathians. The western krifal (Cryphalus piceae Ratz.) is also common there, and in Primorye and on about. Sakhalin - Japanese krifal (C. piceus Egg.). All creefals are typical secondary pests and are rarely the first to colonize weakened trees.

On larch(Siberian and Dahurian). Distributed throughout the range of larch oblong bark beetle(Ips subelongatus Motsch.). Beetle 5 - 6 mm long; the body is very elongated, wheelbarrow with four teeth on each side. A typical inhabitant of larch forests. It makes long passages, resembling those of a six-toothed bark beetle, in the lower and middle parts of the trunk, occasionally under thin bark. Flight of beetles in May - June, one-year generation, additional food in places of development, beetles hibernate in mine passages and in the upper layer of soil under moss. The species is plastic, but tends more towards lighted, well-heated places, where it attacks weakened, but still viable trees and unrooted timber harvested in winter. It brings especially great harm in the centers of the Siberian silkworm. It can settle on Siberian cedar and occasionally on spruce.

Found on larch Morawitz sapwood(Scolytus morawitzi Sem.) is the only sapwood that lives on conifers, but it is HeimeeT of mass distribution. The Baikal woodsman (Dryocpetes baicalicus Reit.) is much more common, but it is also not of great importance. Bark beetles from pine and spruce settle on larch: a six-toothed engraver, a typographer, etc.

On hardwoods. There are many types of bark beetles. However, not all species are of great economic importance. Only the most common and harmful species will be considered here.

birch sapwood(Scolytus raizeburgi Jans.). Distributed throughout the range of birch to the Far East. It inhabits the lower and middle parts of the trunks, making simple longitudinal passages under the bark with many round holes along the uterine passages, by which it is good to distinguish the trees inhabited by it. The flight of beetles is in May, additional feeding in the bark near the buds, egg laying in June, the larva hibernates in tunnels, the generation is one-year.

The species is plastic, however, it prefers to settle on trees growing singly or in groups along the edges of the forest, near roads, in sparse plantations and parks. Inhabits strongly weakened and drying trees.

In Primorye, very similar to birch is widespread. Amur sapwood(S. amurensis Egg.). Most often it occurs in ash wetland forests with an admixture of Manchurian birch, where it colonizes windblown birch trees, and sometimes causes their top dieback, damaging the top and thick branches.

oak sapwood(S. intricatus Ratz.) Fig. 99). It occurs throughout the range of oak in the European part of the USSR and in the Caucasus, where it inhabits local species of oaks (Armenian, etc.). Occasionally settles on hornbeam, chestnut, birch, maple and other species, but they are not listed as a pest. Inhabits predominantly dying young oaks along the entire trunk, and on older trees it avoids thick bark and inhabits their middle part, tops and branches. The uterine passages are transverse, simple, short.

The flight of beetles is in June, after which they feed additionally in the crowns of perfectly healthy oaks for 10-12 days. To do this, the beetles are introduced into thin terminal branches at the places of their articulations. Initially, they make superficial bites and only a few days later they completely go deep into the branch, making a move about 0.5 cm long on it. Oviposition in the second half of June - July. The larvae hibernate; they pupate in the spring of the next year in late April - early May. One-year generation.

During supplementary feeding, the beetles very often carry infection with the vascular disease of oak (Ceratocystis), infecting more and more trees as they spread (Edelman and Malysheva, 1959). Outside the foci of the disease, it is a rather passive pest.

Elm breeds. Many species of sapwood and beetles are found on elms. Mass reproduction is periodically observed in the steppe and forest-steppe zones. Sapwood can carry Dutch disease (Graphium ulmi) infection when supplemented. Additional nutrition of beetles takes place in the articulations of thin twigs in the same way as in the oak sapwood. Trees infected with Dutch disease lose their stability and are populated with sapwood, although outwardly they still look completely healthy. In this case, clump drying of the elms occurs, due to the small radius of expansion of the sapwood, usually equal to 70 - 130 m.

The most common types of sapwood that carry Dutch disease are: sapwood destroyer(Scolytus scolytus F.), sapwood(S. multistriatus March.) (Fig. 100), Both sapwood inhabit birch bark, elm and elm of different ages, mostly older than 8 - 10 years.

The sapwood-destroyer tends to the lower part of the trunks, and the jet - to the middle and upper parts, also inhabiting the branches.

The sapwood-destroyer in the steppe part prefers birch bark, on which two full and partial third generations develop. On the elm, the emergence of young destroyer beetles is delayed by two to three weeks. The sapwood striated on birch bark develops in a similar way, and on its more preferred breed - elm - there are only two generations. The flight of beetles, their settlement of trees, and the development of the young generation in both species are very extended. In the period from May to September, you can simultaneously meet larvae, pupae, young beetles and the beginning of new settlements. To the north, the number of generations per year is reduced to one, while in the Caucasus and Central Asia it increases to four. In a number of regions (southeast of the European part of the USSR), the sapwood-destroyer on the elm is replaced by a closely related wrinkled sapwood(Scolytus sulcifrons Rey.).

In the upper part of the trunks and on the branches of the elm, they settle pygmy sapwood(S. pygmaeus F.) and Kirsch sapwood(S. Kirschi Seal.). They often populate elms in ravine forests, along ravines, in floodplain forests and shelterbelts, and are also carriers of Dutch disease. The pygmy sapwood develops similarly to the striated one, and the Kirsch sapwood has only one generation per year, the flight of beetles in June - July. In the North Caucasus, in the Crimea and some other regions, it is common Zaitsev's sapwood(S. Zaitzevi But.), whose biology is similar to Kirsch's sapwood.

Along with sapwood, trees inhabit elm beetle(Pteleobius vittatus Fabr.) and beetle Kraatz(P. Kraatzi Eichh.). They appear in April - May, young beetles emerge in August. The beetles hibernate in the bark of the butt of the trunks of growing trees.

Ash. Ash beetles cause great harm to ash. Of these, the most common and dangerous small (variegated) ash beetle(Hylesinus fraxini Panz.). It inhabits ash trees of different ages, mostly young and middle-aged, within the European part of the USSR. During mass reproduction, the beetles colonize outwardly perfectly healthy trees, often causing the forest stand to dry out. Flight in May (in the south from mid-April), passages under the thin and medium bark are transverse in the form of curly brackets. One-year generation. Additional food in mine passages on thin parts of the trunk, and wintering in the same passages in thick bark, in the same places from year to year. As a result, painful growths in the form of rosettes appear.

In the forest-steppe and steppe zones, a large ash beetle (Hylesinus crenatus Fabr.) is also often found, in the same place, and in the Caucasus, an oil beetle (H. oleiperda F.), and in the forests of the Far East - a motley Ussuri beetle (H. eos Spess. ) and black beetle (N. laticollis Blandf.).

Widespread on fruit trees wrinkled sapwood(Scolytus rugulosus Ratz.). It also damages bird cherry, hawthorn, mountain ash, dogwood; has a number of subspecies distributed in the Caucasus and Central Asia. It attacks weakened trees, inhabits trunks with thick bark, and on old trees it occupies their middle and upper parts and branches. The generation is one-year, in the south - double, additional nutrition in the cortex at the base of the kidneys.

Bark beetles cause great harm to deciduous species. The most common of them stair deciduous lumberjack(Trypodendron signatum 01.), outwardly differs little from the coniferous timber forest, leads the same way of life, but always inhabits only deciduous species, especially oak, birch and alder. The unpaired woodpeckers are also widespread, which got their name due to the difference between males and females. Females lay eggs in a cluster; the larvae gnaw on the joint family passage or spread along the uterine passages. The most simple passages are arranged in the polyphagous arboreal (Xyleborus saxeseni Ratz.), which attacks many hardwoods (oak, beech, alder, hornbeam, hazel, etc.), and in the Far East also conifers. Flight end of May - June. One-year generation. Inhabits weakened trees (Fig. 101).

At western gypsy timber(Xyleborus dispar Fabr.) the passage is built differently than in other unpaired timbers. The female first sharpens the canal perpendicular to the surface of the trunk by 3 - 6 cm, where the passage turns along the annual ring in one direction or the other, ringing the stem. From this primary move, the female lays eggs in clusters. Flight of beetles in June; young beetles hibernate in passages. One-year generation. The species is polyphagous, especially damaging oak, beech, maple, birch and fruit trees. In the conditions of the steppe zone, it is considered a very harmful species; it is also found in Siberia and the Caucasus.

All lumberjacks are at the same time technical pests, the fight against them is obligatory (chapter X).

Barbels (Cerambycidae)

The barbel family unites on the globe about 17,000 species of beetles, of which only 1,500 species live in the USSR. Barbels feed on plants, and most of the barbels live off trees and shrubs and are called lumberjacks.

The sizes of longhorn beetles range from 3 to 60 mm. The body is elongated, most often covered with hairs. Legs long, tibiae with spines, tarsi 4-segmented. The head is free. The antennae are longer than half of the body and often exceed it by 1.5 - 2 times. All lumberjacks have the ability to "throw their antennae over their backs", that is, bend them back, which other beetles cannot do. Elytra cover the entire abdomen; occasionally, the elytra are greatly shortened and the abdomen remains partially uncovered (short-winged barbels p. Molorchus, etc.). Most barbels are capable of producing a raspy sound when the mesothorax is rubbed against the prothorax. Barbel larvae are equipped with small jaws, but well adapted for cracking wood. With their help, they gnaw long and wide passages in the wood. Adult larvae are cylindrical or slightly flattened, white. The head and jaws are solid, brown in color. The anterior end of the body is wider due to the expanded anterior chest. On the segments there are special areas - "corns", resting on which the larvae move in their moves.

Barbel larvae vary greatly in body structure, head size, absence or presence of legs, but at first glance they all look alike, have similarities in the main structural features and are easily distinguishable from larvae of other stem pests.

The flight of woodcutters takes place at different times and is very extended, since the conditions for their development in a tree are very variable and depend on its condition, age, habitat, and the different quality of individual tissues on which the larvae feed. A number of species fly early in spring, simultaneously with pine beetles, most in June-July, some long-horned beetles fly until the end of August.

The calendar periods of flight of certain species are determined by the weather conditions of the year and the geographical area.

Females lay white, oblong-oval eggs in cracks and crevices in the bark and wood or in depressions gnawed into the bark (notches). Egg development lasts 10 - 20 days. The larvae emerging from the eggs begin to gnaw passages in the bast.

According to the way of life of the larvae can be divided into several groups:

larvae spend their whole lives under the bark, where they gnaw passages and pupate;

larvae spend most of their lives under the bark, gnaw out long passages, and before pupation go into the wood and make a small hook-shaped passage;

the larvae do not live long under the bark, gnaw out a small area in the bast and then make long passages in the wood, bringing them to the surface of the wood before pupation; such a move after the departure of the beetle has a bracket-like shape (Fig. 103).

The larvae spend their entire lives in wood. Most lumberjack larvae have round-oval passages. The larvae usually overwinter once or twice and pupate in spring. The duration of larval development may vary depending on the condition of the wood and nutritional conditions.

Before pupation, the larva almost always arranges a special cradle, i.e., widens the end of the passage. In the cradle, the larva pupates. If the larva makes a hook-like passage, then it turns over before pupating with its head towards the exit. In the event that the larva gnaws through the staple-like passage, it does not turn over, and the young beetle gnaws through the remaining space. Before pupation, the larva usually separates the cradle from the rest of the passage with a plug of sawdust. The development of the pupa lasts 10-12 days.

The generation of barbels is different. In many species it is one-year, in others it lasts two or three years. The duration of generation is affected by the feeding conditions of the larvae. Under unfavorable conditions, generation is delayed for several years.

After emergence, young beetles in many species undergo additional feeding on the juicy bast of young shoots in the crowns (black barbels), gnaw out leaf tissues (aspen creakers), or feed on pollen from flowers (more species).

Among longhorn beetles, oligophages predominate, feeding on a number of tree species close in origin. All barbels are divided into pests of coniferous and deciduous tree species. Barbels rarely switch from coniferous to deciduous species, although such cases are known. Thus, the large black coniferous barbel in Eastern Siberia develops on fir, spruce and birch. Among barbels of the same genus, very often some species are associated with conifers, while others with deciduous species.

Within coniferous and deciduous species, barbels also prefer known species tree species. So, gray long-horned barbel and pine-top barbel very rarely develop on spruce, and shiny-breasted barbel - on pine. The same pattern is observed when feeding on hardwoods. The transition from one breed to another often leads to a delay in development, the timing of emergence, fertility, changes the size of the body. Preference for one or another tree species depends on different geographical areas.

Each type of barbel occupies a certain area of ​​​​the settlement on a tree (roots, thin branches, part of the trunk with coarse or thin bark) and rarely changes its habits.

Some longhorn beetles are very active and inhabit outwardly perfectly healthy trees (large and small aspen longhorn beetles, etc.). Most attack weakened trees. Among barbels there are light and heat-loving forms and shade-loving ones, most species have great biological plasticity.

The change in the number of longhorn beetles depends on a set of factors discussed above for the entire group of stem pests.

The abundance of barbel species makes it impossible to give a somewhat satisfactory overview of them in a short course. Therefore, the following is a description of only the most common and harmful species.

Black coniferous barbels (p. Monochamus). Large insects, their body is more or less elongated. It is usually shiny, black or jet black. Elytra long, in most cases strongly elongated, slightly narrowed towards the end, usually rounded, with coarse sculpture and dense paler hairs. Antennae more or less thin, 1.5 times as long as body, with one segment strongly thickened.

The larvae are white, legless, the head is black, the body is somewhat narrowed towards the end. The size of the larvae depends on the species and reaches 4-6 cm in the fir barbel. They first gnaw out large irregularly shaped areas under the bark, and then go deep into the wood, where they make very large, staple-like passages. So, in a fir barbel, the length of the vertical part of the stroke is 15 cm, the total length of the stroke is 30 - 40 cm, and the width is 1 - 2 cm. The flight opening is 1 - 1.2 cm.

All black barbels undergo additional nutrition in the crowns of trees, damaging shoots and branches.

The following types of black barbel are common in the forests of the USSR: black large coniferous barbel (M. urussovi Fich.), black pine barbel (M. galloprovincialis Gelb.), black small coniferous barbel (M. sutor L.), velvet-spotted black coniferous barbel (M. saltuarius Gelb.) and black coniferous speckled barbel (M. impluviatus Motsch). The last two species are found only in the forest zone of the Asian part of the USSR, the rest are ubiquitous.

Black large coniferous barbel(Monochamus urussovi Fisch.). It causes the greatest harm in the forests of Siberia and the Far East, breeding in huge numbers in the centers of the Siberian silkworm and fir moth, in burned areas, as well as in forest warehouses and in places of large logging. In the European part of the USSR, this species is widely distributed in the northern part of the forest zone and relatively rare in its southern part (Fig. 102).

The mass flight of beetles in the forests of Siberia begins at an average daily temperature above 13 ° C, at a temperature of more than 20 ° C, the flight intensity increases, and when it falls below 10 ° C, it decreases. Usually, flight begins in the third decade of June, is massive in the first two decades of July, and ends in mid-September. On about. Sakhalin flight begins almost a month later (Krivolutskaya, 1961), and in the southern part of the forest zone - 1 - 1.5 weeks earlier.

Beetles live for about two months (according to Prozorov, 51-52 days on average) and during this time they pass additional food in the crowns of trees of different ages (starting from 10-12 years). Usually, the beetle chooses a thin branch, places itself along it, bites off the existing needles and then begins to scrape off the bark, exposing the wood with a strip along the length of the branch by 1-10 cm.

Egg laying begins 12 - 20 days after the appearance of the first beetles, and after another 10 - 12 days it reaches its maximum. In the southern part of the forest zone of the European part of the USSR, oviposition begins 8-12 days after the appearance of the first beetles. To lay eggs, the female gnaws a narrow slit in the bark - a notch, into which, using the ovipositor, she introduces one, less often two eggs to a depth of 2 - 3 mm. The average fecundity of one female is 14 eggs, the maximum is 33. The egg phase lasts 13 - 29 days; for its development, a sum of temperatures of about 250 ° C is needed.

The larva emerging from the egg has a body length of about 3 - 5 mm and gnaws a passage in the thickness of the bark, and then in the sapwood and hibernates at the first or second age. At the second age, it expands the course under the bark and deepens into the wood up to 5 cm. The second molt occurs in June of the following year. At this time, the larva penetrates even further into the trunk, clears the passages all the time and periodically returns to feed under the bark. At the fourth instar, the larvae rarely visit the subcrustal space. In the last - fifth age, which occurs after the fourth molt in the fall of the second year or in the spring of the third year after the egg phase, the larva no longer returns under the bark, but ends its course at a distance of 1.5 - 2 cm from the surface of the trunk and at the end suits it pupal cradle, in which in the third year it turns into a chrysalis (Fig. 103). The pupal phase lasts 25 - 26 days. Generation is two-year, but under favorable development conditions, part of the population can complete its life cycle in one year.

The large black coniferous barbel can inhabit all coniferous species of the taiga, but prefers fir, and in the forest zone of the European part of the USSR - spruce. In addition, in the conditions of Transbaikalia and in Mongolia, he settles on a birch, where he successfully completes his time-drinking, including additional food (Talman, 1940; Grechkin, 1960).

Barbel beetles are photophilous and primarily settle in windows, along edges and in sparse plantations, however, during mass reproduction, these features are erased and the beetles spread regardless of lighting. They inhabit fallen and standing trees, but the first ones are denser.

In the centers of the Siberian silkworm, first of all, fir is populated, then spruce and Siberian cedar. On larch barbel is less common and plays a secondary role. He prefers trees with a diameter thicker than 24 cm, and avoids thin trees (8 - 12 cm) (Kataev, 1959). The lower and middle parts of the tree trunk are predominantly populated, where development is somewhat faster, and the mortality of larvae is lower. In general, the barbel has a very high embryonic mortality and death of up to 50% of larvae (Lonshchakov, Maslov, Michel, 1958), although the activity of entomophages is relatively inactive. Many larvae are exterminated by woodpeckers, especially the yellow one (Prozorov, 1958).

black pine barbel(Monochamus galloprovincialis Germ.) (Fig. 104). A dangerous pest of pine forests in the southern part of the forest zone, forest-steppe and steppe zone of the European part of the USSR, belt forests of Western Siberia and Kazakhstan. It breeds in foci of the root fungus, on burned areas, in foci of needle-eating insects, in pine forests severely weakened by drought, pine root bugs, in logging sites and in timber warehouses.

The flight of beetles begins in the first ten days of June; in early July, 90% of them leave the wood (Kuznetsova, 1956). The beetles emerge immature and undergo additional feeding on pine branches, gnawing at the fresh thin bark. Beetles live up to 70 days, but already after 5 - 7 days, females begin laying eggs in notches. The larvae appear in mid-July. They feed on bark, bast, sapwood and top layers of wood. In early August, the larvae penetrate the wood. Like the fir barbel, the larvae periodically crawl out of the passages into the subcrustal space throughout their development to feed on bast and sapwood. In this regard, they clean and expand their passages, sometimes making additional holes for throwing out "sawdust". The larva does not reach the end of the passage in the wood by 1-1.5 cm to the surface and at the end of it arranges a puppet cradle where it hibernates. Pupation takes place in May. The generation is one-year, but some of the larvae develop according to a two-year cycle.

Barbel beetles are photophilous and prefer sparse, well-warmed plantations. In mixed stands, the number of barbel decreases sharply. It settles along the entire trunk, while in the butt part, more females are born, and in the upper part - males.

The biology of the remaining black coniferous longhorn beetles is very similar to the two leading species described above. They also fly from the end of June to August and develop on a one-year cycle, populating various conifers.

Barbeled tetropiums (p. Tetropium). They differ in smaller size and flattened body of beetles. Antennae reach half of body, pronotum nearly as long as wide, elytra only slightly convex, moderately long, parallel, usually much wider than pronotum, rounded at apex, black or chestnut; body is black.

The larvae are characterized by the presence of short legs; they are yellowish-white with a darker pronotum and head, the jaws are black, the head is almost heart-shaped, above with a longitudinal groove in the middle. The size of the larvae depends on the species and reaches 20 mm. They gnaw out areas under the bark, and then make a hook-like move in the wood where they pupate.

The following species are common in the forests of the USSR: brilliant-breasted (T. casianeum L.) and matt-breasted (T. fuscum F.) spruce barbels, Gabriel's larch lumberjack (T. gabrieli Weise.), slender-breasted spruce barbel (T. gracilicorne Reitt.) and Semirechensky spruce barbel (T. staudingeri Pic). The lifestyle of all these species has much in common. All of them damage conifers and are active pests, attacking first weakened trees in the foci of needle-eating insects, honey agaric and root fungus, populating weakened trees along the edges, windfall and windfall, wood in logging sites.

Brilliant-breasted spruce barbel(Tetropium castaneum L., p. 105). Distributed throughout the USSR. Flight in May - June; the female lays her eggs in cracks in the bark of trees, the larva gnaws wide irregularly shaped passages under the bark, deeply touching the sapwood, and after 20–25 days leaves, makes a hooked passage into the wood to a depth of 2–4 cm. to the exit and pupates. One-year generation.

The barbel settles on spruce trees of different diameters, under various environmental conditions, mainly in shaded places, inhabits the butt of the trunks, and in Siberia, in the centers of the Siberian silkworm, it settles before the fir barbel and occupies the entire trunk, damaging the Siberian cedar in addition to spruce. Rarely found on other conifers.

Altai larch barbel(Xylotrechus altaicus Gelb.). Beetle 11 - 23 mm long. Females are larger than males. The body is elongated, narrow, brown in color, the legs are long, the pronotum is massive, almost spherical. Wings greyish-brown. Distributed from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean.

Mass flight in July. Beetles don't eat. Females intensively lay eggs in the first five to six days, and after two weeks they stop laying altogether. They place their eggs in cracks in the bark one by one, mainly on the south side of the trees, placing them along the entire height of the trunk. The fertility of one female is 50 - 102 eggs (Rozhkov, 1981). Egg phase 13 - 16 days. The hatched larva is legless, white, with a reddish tint. The length of the adult larva is about 32 mm. The larva goes through five instars. After the release of their eggs, the larva bites into the bark, destroys the bast, hibernates in the bark. In the spring, under the bark, it makes a course along the circumference of the trunk. and in July - August it goes deeper into the wood, where it hibernates a second time. After the second wintering, the larva approaches the periphery of the trunk, arranges a pupal cradle and pupates. Pupa phase 16 - 20 days, two-year generation.

The passages laid by the larvae in the outer layers of the sapwood are very characteristic. They have transverse directions and do not intersect even with a very dense arrangement, they are clogged with sawdust throughout. Damaged trees are very characteristic and are recognized by the passages described above (Fig. 106).

The view is light and thermophilic. Foci occur primarily in old, sparse plantations damaged by fire or needle-eating pests. This is a physiologically active species. It populates trees with a slight decrease in their resistance. Reaching a high abundance in breeding areas, it also settles on healthy trees. A characteristic feature of the barbel is the formation of new foci due to migration. According to A. S. Rozhkov (1981), the larch barbel is of great economic importance. It is the most dangerous pest of larch. Does not harm other tree species - strict monophage.

Long-whiskered gray beetle (Acanthoclnus aedilis L.). The body is flat, light brown, the underwings are gray with dark bands. Length 13 -20 mm. Antennae 1.5-3 times as long as body. The most common inhabitant of pine forests. It is found everywhere in large numbers, but, as a rule, it attacks only drying and fallen trees, stumps, windblows, windfall. The wood is not harmed, as the larva gnaws wide irregularly shaped passages only in the bark and bast. The larva is legless, white, 30-34 mm long.

The flight of the barbel begins very early, usually at the end of April - May, it is very extended, and beetles can be found until August. Development proceeds rapidly, and in autumn young beetles are found in oval cradles under the bark. With a later hatching of the larvae, they overwinter, and young beetles appear only in spring. One-year generation.

With a large number of barbel larvae, they corrode the entire subcrustal space, clogging it with compressed brown sawdust, and thereby prevent the settlement of other stem pests, especially bark beetles.

In the forests of Siberia and the Far East, conifers and other representatives of p. Acanthoclnus: Siberian gray long-horned beetle (A. carlnulatus Gelb.) and small gray long-horned beetle (A. griseus F.).

Rhagium ribbed (Rhagium inquisitor L.) accompanies the gray long-whiskered beetle, has the same cycle of development. Its larvae, with a bright orange-brown head, live and pupate under the bark of dead coniferous trees. This species is very widespread, but does not cause harm. Other species of this genus (Rh. mordax Dg. Rh. sycophanta Schr.) develop at the expense of hardwoods and are also practically harmless.

In the butt of coniferous trees and fresh stumps, there are three species of widespread barbel: brown butt barbel (Criocephalus rusticus L.), black ribbed barbel (Asemum striatum L.) and short barbel (Spondylis buprestoides L.). Only the first of them causes noticeable harm. The other two are rather beneficial, accelerating the destruction of stumps and the biological cycle in ecosystems dominated by double (mainly pine) species. In the literature, however, there are a number of indications of the harm caused by the larvae of these longhorn beetles in dry pine forests.

Brown butt(or rustic) barbel(Criocephalus rusticus L.) causes technical harm, and also participates in the spring phenological grouping of stem pests that inhabit trees weakened by various factors (fires, root fungus, etc.). This is a large reddish-brown beetle, 10 - 27 mm long, with short antennae. Beetles are nocturnal, willingly fly into the light in the house. Flight in June - July. Females lay their eggs in the stumps, roots and lower parts of dying pines, less often in other conifers.

The larva is yellowish-white in color with black-brown jaws, up to 33 mm long. She first lives under the bark in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthick roots or the basal part of the trunk, then goes into the wood and makes longitudinal passages, clogging them with brownish flour. At the last age, the larva arranges a cradle for pupation and gnaws out the exit to the lateral surface, clogging it with coarse drilling meal. The pupal phase lasts three to four weeks. Hatching beetles do not need additional nutrition and immediately start mating. Depending on the substrate, generation lasts one to three years. Prefers pine. It is often found in the wood of cold buildings, unrooted logs, telegraph poles.

Hardwoods damage many types of barbel. Below are the main ones.

Large oak barbel(Cerambyx cerdo L.) damaged oak forests in Ukraine (west of the Dnieper) and especially in the Crimea, Georgia and Krasnodar region. A very beautiful large beetle up to 6 5 mm long (Fig. 107. Now it has become a rare species and needs to be protected.

The flight of beetles is from mid-May to August. The female lays eggs one at a time in cracks in the bark, up to 100 eggs in total. The egg phase lasts 10 to 15 days. For the first year, the larva gnaws a passage under the bark, after wintering it goes deep into the wood, where it makes an irregular channel up to 3 cm wide, winters again and pupates in the third year at the end of the passage. A beetle hatches from a pupa in July - August, but leaves the tree only in spring and additionally feeds on oak sap. Three-year generation.

The species is photophilous, settles on the southern edges, in sparse, mostly old stands of coppice origin, where it colonizes, first of all, the thickest, well-lit, outwardly quite viable oaks.

In the Caucasus, along with oak, a bliss-like tree is common. big fruit bark(Cerambyx dux Fald.), damaging oak, beech and fruit species, and in oak forests of the forest-steppe - small oak barbel(C. scopolli Fussl.). In addition to oak, it damages beech, hornbeam, ash, maple, elm and fruit trees, but usually does not form foci and is of little economic importance.

Variegated oak barbels (Plagionotus arcuatus L., P. detritus L.). They are very widespread within the boundaries of the oak range in the European part of the USSR and in the Caucasus. From a distance, they look a little like wasps in coloring. The body is black with arcuate yellow stripes in one species (P. arcutus L.) and wide yellow constrictions in another (P. detritus L.). Mass flight in June, oviposition in cracks in the bark along the entire trunk, larvae gnaw long longitudinal passages, expanding as they grow and deeply touching the sapwood. On standing oaks, they are directed from the bottom up, and on lying trees and logs they have an indefinite direction. 30 - 40 days after leaving the eggs, the larvae gnaw through oval holes and go into the wood to a depth of 2-4 cm, then steeply, almost at a right angle, bend down and gnaw along the wood fibers up to 3 - 5 cm long. At the end of such The larvae overwinter in the passages by plugging the horizontal part of the passage with a cork made of wood chips, and in the spring they widen the passage, turn their heads towards the exit and pupate. The pupal phase lasts about 20 days. Young beetles expand their entrance holes. One-year generation. These species contribute to the death of often still viable trees and cause great technical damage, rendering oak wood unusable. Plastic species are found in a wide variety of conditions.

Yellow-spotted ocellated barbel (Mesosa myops Dalm.) distributed throughout the world, including the Far East. It damages most hardwoods, especially oak. Flight from June to the end of August; the larva makes long passages under the bark, where it pupates, beetles hibernate, additional feeding on the bark of trunks and branches, one-year generation. Very plastic species, found in a variety of environmental conditions.

On weakened and fallen oaks, a number of barbels also settle, the larvae of which gnaw through rather deep passages in the wood. These barbels open the gates of fungal infection and greatly reduce the technical qualities of wood. The main species are: Koehler's red-winged barbel (Purpuricenus kaehleri ​​L.), red oak woodcutter (Phyrrhidium sanguineum L.), antelope barbel (Xylotrechus antilope Schonh.). They fly from late May to July. The larvae overwinter in the wood. One-year generation. Beetles inhabit trees of different diameters, however, they prefer oaks of medium thickness, young, middle-aged.

Big aspen barbel(Saperda carcharias L.). This species is widespread in the European part of the USSR and Siberia (Fig. 108).

The beetle is 21 - 28 mm long. Light brown or gray due to the hairs covering it. In males, the elytra taper backwards; in females, they are almost parallel. Last segments of antennae with black annulus. Flight from late June to September (peak in July). The beetles undergo additional feeding, gnawing round holes in the leaves of aspen and poplars, and on shoots, thin stems and branches - transverse slit-like bark bites. After mating, females make notches in the butt of growing trees and lay one egg at a time. The fertility of one female is 50 - 60 eggs.

The larva first gnaws out an irregularly shaped cavity in the sapwood and then deepens into the wood, where it gnaws a long (up to 1.5 m) vertical passage, in which it hibernates a second time, and in the spring of the third year makes a lateral flight passage and pupates at the upper end of the vertical passage on a previously prepared cork from fibrous shavings. The young beetle, having destroyed the cork, makes its way into the side passage and gnaws a round flight hole through which it exits. Generation is most often two-year, but can be delayed up to three or four years.

In areas north of Moscow, eggs most often hibernate, occasionally larvae of the first age (Pavlinov, 1965), in more southern places the larva manages to gnaw through a passage in the form of a cavity under the bark. The direction, configuration, and size of these passages depend on the age of the tree. The most winding and large cavities are found on young trees. At the same time, the larva often gnaws several holes in the bark, from which it throws out sawdust. Later, the larvae on all trees begin to bite into the sapwood. In this case, the direction of moves can be different. More often, the larvae bite in the tangential direction, gradually rising up. However, when laying eggs directly at the root collar, the passages first go down. In the future, the larva rises up and begins to gnaw a typical core passage. The lower part of the passage by this time is usually densely packed with sawdust. The length of the vertical stroke is different. On average, it is 30 - 40 cm. On old trees, the length of the passages can reach 1 - 1.5 m.

The adult larva reaches a length of up to 42 mm (at the first age about 6 mm). She is whitish-yellow, legless, with sparse hairs.

Before pupation, the larva gnaws a lateral passage to the surface of the trunk approximately in the center of the vertical passage. Pupation occurs on a dense cork of sawdust in the upper part of the passage. The pupal phase is about 15 days. The hatching beetle gnaws a round hole, which quickly overgrows. Generation in the northern part of the range is three- and four-year (Pavlinov, 1965). For the southern part of the range, along with the four-year one (Petrova, 1956), the two-year one is indicated (Grechkin, 1960).

With a high population density of trees, the barbel causes them to gradually dry out. At the same time, it also causes technical harm, since the wood worn out by the larvae completely loses its technical properties. In addition, from the passages of larvae and incisions of beetles on the branches, redness is intensively spreading.

Small aspen barbel(Saperda populnea L.). Causes great harm to young aspens and poplars. Flight in May - June. The generation is biennial. Damaged branches and stems, inside which the larva develops, are clearly visible by the galls that form in the places where eggs are laid and where the larvae penetrate into the shoot (Fig. 109).

Gray aspen barbel(Xylotrechus rusticus L.). This is the most common and numerous inhabitant of deciduous forests. The flight of the beetles is extended, starting in May and continuing until mid-August with a peak in June. Females lay their eggs in crevices and cracks in the bark of standing, weakened and fallen trees, as well as various timber products.

The larva first gnaws a passage under the bark, deeply touching the sapwood. The course is winding, sometimes with extensions and spurs, all clogged with drilling flour. In the outer layers of wood, it usually runs more or less parallel to the surface of the wood, then deepens obliquely, in thin trees often reaching the opposite side. On thicker trunks, the passages are bent and directed towards the surface of the wood. At the end of development, the larva comes close to the surface of the wood and pupates there. The generation is two-year, and cannot be completed in one year.

Marble patterned barbel(Saperda scalaris L.). The beetle has a greenish coloration with black spots on the elytra, forming a marbled pattern. The length of the beetle is 12 - 20 mm. Inhabits birch, aspen, alder and other hardwoods. The female lays her eggs in depressions, which she gnaws out in cracks in the bark. Fertility 10 - 30 eggs (Trofimov, 1980). The larva sharpens a winding passage under the bark, then deepens into the wood, where it makes a hooked short passage. The generation is one-year, but a number of authors indicate a two-year one (Trofimov, 1980).

Urban, or Uzbek, barbel(Aeolesthes sarta Sols.). Widely distributed in Central Asia, where it causes great harm to many tree species, especially poplars, plane trees, white locust, walnuts, etc. elytra (Fig. 110). The flight of beetles is from late April to mid-June. Females lay one by one - three eggs in cracks and deepenings in the bark of tree trunks of all ages, more often old ones. Only one female lays up to 270 eggs. The hatched larvae bite under the bark, first feed on the bast, then make winding passages that strongly touch the sapwood, and pass into irregularly oval cavities that sharply cut into the bast and cork of the bark. In autumn, the larvae go deep into the wood and hibernate there, and the next year they continue to move. First, it is laid down, then sharply hook-like bends and goes up, parallel to the surface of the trunk. Young beetles appear at the end of summer and hibernate in burrows. The generation is biennial.

The urban barbel attacks outwardly healthy, still quite viable trees and gradually leads them to death. It is found in valleys and mountain forests up to an altitude of 1800 m above sea level.

Zlatki (Buprestidae)

The goldfish family unites beetles of various sizes (from 3 to 80 mm), the vast majority of which live in tropical countries. In the USSR, the fauna of borers is especially diverse in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Only about 180 species are found in the European part of the USSR. They are mainly associated with trees and shrubs. Many species are dangerous pests of tree species, especially in the steppe zone, where they are one of the main stem pests.

The beetles have a flat, elongated body narrowed towards the end, metallic-shiny, with brightly colored hard elytra. Head small, legs short, tarsi five-segmented, antennae 11-segmented, serrate. The shape of the body and well-developed hind wings contribute to the fast and long-range flights of borers and their distribution throughout the territory.

The beetles are exceptionally light and thermophilic. They fly, mate and lay eggs only in bright sunlight, and gravitate to well-lit and warmed habitats.

Females lay their eggs in cracks and crevices in the bark or on its smooth surface from the illuminated, usually southern part of the tree trunks. Sometimes they pour eggs on tree trunks with a liquid secreted by special glands. The liquid solidifies instantly, and numerous white caps form on tree trunks, under which there are eggs (green narrow-bodied borer and a number of other species of p. Agrilus). A small group of borer species lay their eggs on leaves, which are then mined by larvae (p. Trachys). Finally, there are borers, the females of which lay their eggs in the ground near the roots of trees. The hatched larvae search for the nearest root and begin to feed on it, gnawing long winding passages towards the surface (p. Capnodis).

The larvae of borers are strongly elongated, uncolored, yellowish-white, legless, blind, with a prothoracic segment characteristically widened and flattened from above and below, bearing one or two grooves converging anteriorly from above. The head is small, dark, retracted into the prothorax. The larvae of borers are dry to the touch and can tolerate high temperatures under the bark of a tree (up to 48°C), putting up with a high dryness of the substrate and air, which contributes to their survival in the interspecific struggle with the larvae of other stem pests.

According to the way of life, the larvae of goldfish are divided into several groups. Some of them pass their entire development under the bark, feeding on bast and sapwood, others complete their development in wood, and still others feed almost all the time in wood.

Under the bark, the larvae gnaw through flat, sharp-edged, winding, gradually widening passages, densely clogged with sandy, wavy drilling flour. Sometimes the course intersects several times and forms a characteristic tangle at the end (green narrow-bodied goldfish). Most often, the passages have a transverse direction and first pass through the bark and bast without touching the sapwood. On coniferous species, this allows the borers to be the first to colonize the trees, since their passages almost do not violate the system of resin walkers (blue pine borer). In wood, the passages are short in the form of a hook (for example, in p. Chrysobothris). Only a few species of borers cause technical damage to wood, making long passages in old stumps, poles and logs (p. Buprestis). A number of species live in the roots of tree species growing in the desert (dzhuzgan, comb, saxaul, etc.), wearing them down in all directions.

The larvae usually overwinter once or twice and pupate in spring in pupal cradles. Young beetles emerge from the pupae in two to three weeks. They gnaw through a flight hole that has the shape of a more or less elongated, sometimes very narrow ellipse. One side, corresponding to the back of the beetle, is flatter, the other, corresponding to its ventral surface, is more convex.

After emergence, young beetles in many species undergo additional feeding on flowers and leaves. Generation in goldfish is most often one- and two-year.

Among borers, pests of deciduous species predominate; the fauna of coniferous species is relatively poor in species. Each species prefers one or more tree species close to each other and inhabits a certain part of the tree trunk, branches or roots. Thus, the majority of small anthaxias (p. Anthaxia) inhabit the branches and top of the trunks, and dicerci (p. Dicerca) settle in the lower part of the trees.

Many species of borers are very active and attack relatively healthy trees, populating them before barbels and bark beetles. For their reproduction, they choose sparse, well-heated plantations growing in xerophilic conditions, primarily edges, backstage, undercuts, groups of seed plants in cutting areas, shelterbelts and plantings without lateral shading of the second tier and undergrowth.

On conifers, the most common and harmful species are blue pine borer, larch six-spotted borer, four-spot spruce borer, fire borer, ribbed bronze borer, juniper borer.

blue pine borer(Phaenops cyanea F.). Beetle 8 - 11 mm, with a flat elongated body. The coloration of the lower part of the body is green, the upper part is blue-green or dark blue with a metallic sheen (Fig. 111). Flight in June - July. The female lays her eggs in cracks in the bark. After three to five days, the larvae emerge. They gnaw through long winding passages ringing the tree, and hibernate in the thickness of the bark, curled up in a horseshoe.

The larvae pupate in May next year. The pupal phase lasts 10 - 15 days, the generation is one-year.

Zlatka is the first to populate weakened, but still quite viable pines with a sparse crown and yellowing tips of needles, at the age of 20-80 years. Settling begins on the south side of the tree from a height of 1 - 1.5 m and captures the entire middle part of the trunk to the place where the crown is attached. She prefers sparse dry pine forests. Particularly intensively multiply in the foci of the root fungus and in conflagrations, in pine crops after a two-year spring drought.

The larvae of the borer are actively exterminated by small spotted woodpecker and pika, entomophages do not play a big role in population fluctuations. The admixture of spruce in pine forests sharply reduces the number of borers.

Larch six-spotted borer(Phaenops guttulata Gelb.). Beetle 7-11.5 mm long, elongated-oval, black, with a bronze tint; there are three pairs of light yellow spots on the elytra. Flight in June - July. The female lays her eggs in cracks in the bark of Siberian and Dahurian larch trees. The larvae overwinter under the bark and pupate in May. Young beetles feed on larch needles.

Zlatka settles on relatively little weakened, still viable trees of different ages. The most heated part of the tree is populated from a height of 3 - 5 m. It prefers sparse plantations damaged by needle-eating insects, burned areas, cutting areas. Distributed throughout the natural range of Siberian and Dahurian larches.

Zlatka conflagration(Melanophila acuminata Deg.). The beetle is 6.5 - 13 mm long. Monochromatic jet black, elongated, wedge-shaped narrowed behind. Flight in June - July. Females lay their eggs in cracks in the bark in the lower and middle parts of the trunks. The larvae sharpen long passages, as in the previous species, hibernate and pupate in wood. One-year generation. Found on the hills. Prefers middle-aged spruce trees, less often pines and other conifers. In Siberia, it often inhabits birch (Rozhkov, 1966). The species is very light and heat-loving, widely distributed throughout the forest zone.

Ribbed bronze goldfish(Chrysobothris chrysostigma L.). It is distributed in the forest zone and in its way of life is very similar to the previous species.

Four-spotted borer(Anthaxia quadripunctata L.). Beetle 4 - 7 mm long, dull, black-bronze in color, four pits on the pectoral shield. Flight in June, females lay their eggs in cracks in the bark of middle-aged spruces, in the middle and lower parts of the trunk, mainly on the south or unshaded side. The larvae bore long, winding, flat passages gradually expanding with sharp edges, stuffed with motley brown flour, under the bark, and hibernate in them. Before pupation, they burrow into the wood. Young beetles pass additional food on the yellow flowers of dandelion and other Compositae. One-year generation.

Distributed throughout the forest zone, in the forest-steppe there is a variety of this borer, damaging the pine.

juniper goldfish(Anthaxia conradti Sem.). Beetle 4 - 7 mm long, dark bronze, wide, flat. Flight in April - May, often delayed until July (Makhnovsky, 1966). The female lays her eggs in cracks and under the scales of the bark of branches on weakened trees and logging remains of juniper. The larvae gnaw long, winding, gradually expanding and slightly touching the wood passages. They hibernate and turn into pupae in spring. Then a decade later into beetles. Young beetles feed on dandelion flowers, then wild rose. Generation is one-year (according to Makhnovsky, on growing trees - two-year).

The juniper borer prefers sparse, well-lit places, is light and thermophilic, and is distributed throughout the range of juniper.

On hardwoods there are a lot of species of goldfish. The most common ones are described below.

Green narrow-bodied borer(Agrilus viridis L.) (Fig. 112). Beetle 6 - 9 mm long, with a narrow, more convex body below, metallic green or of blue color. Flight of beetles in June. Females lay their eggs in clusters on the smooth bark of trunks and branches. In one heap 7 - 11, maximum 20 eggs. The female fills the eggs with secretions from the accessory sex glands, as a result of which convex white shields 2–3.5 mm in diameter are formed on the trunks.

Leaving the eggs, the larvae bite under the bark and make passages clogged with drilling flour. Each larva makes an independent move, but depending on the state of the tree, the moves of the larvae either diverge freely to the sides, or form an oval ball located along the trunk or branch (Fig. 113). In autumn, the larvae penetrate into the surface layers of wood and arrange pupal cradles in which they overwinter. In the spring, the larvae pupate, and soon young beetles appear, which pass additional feeding on the leaves of trees. Generation everywhere is one-year.

Foci are formed in sparse young plantations on poor and dry soils, along the southern edges, in openwork shelterbelts, etc.

The goldfish brings the greatest harm to poplars, birches and maples, and in the west to beech. In appearance and lifestyle, some other narrow-bodied borers are very similar to the green narrow-bodied borer.

All narrow-bodied borers fly in June, overwinter in the larval phase, have a one-year generation, the beetles feed on the leaves of the trees on which the offspring lives. They inhabit young trees or the tops and branches of older ones, they are photophilous and prefer coppice sparse plantations, disturbed by cuttings, "backstage" and southern edges, narrow shelterbelts of openwork design, plantings without lateral shading. Narrow-bodied borers are dangerous physiological pests of steppe forests, especially during drought years, and measures to combat them are rather difficult.

Narrow-bodied borers differ in oviposition. Like the green narrow-bodied borer, the hornbeam narrow-bodied borer (Agrilus olivicolor Ksw.), which is widespread in the areas of hornbeam growth, lays eggs under the cap, the birch narrow-bodied borer (A. betuleti Rtrb.), which harms young birches in the shelterbelts of the forest-steppe zone, etc.

In contrast to these species, narrow-bodied borers that settle on oak lay eggs one at a time in cracks in the bark, usually at a short distance from each other. They are the most dangerous pests of oak forests in the steppe and forest-steppe zones during dry climatic periods. Silky narrow-bodied borer (Agrilus hastulifer Rtrb.), apical oak narrow-bodied borer (A. angustulus 111.), two-spotted narrow-bodied oak borer (A. biguttatus F.), elongated narrow-bodied borer (A. sulcicollis Lac.) and small narrow-bodied oak borer (A. obscuricollis Ksw.).

These borers prefer young and middle-aged coppice oaks, and on old ones they inhabit only thick branches and the top of the trunk. The exception is the two-spotted borer, whose larvae live under the thick bark of fresh stumps and in the butt part of living old oaks no higher than 2–5 m.

All of them have a one-year generation (only two-spotted borers in the northern regions have a two-year generation), feed on oak leaves in the beetle phase (Fig. 114), fly well and are distinguished by exceptional love of light and heat.

Bronze oak borer(Chrysobothris affinis Fobr.) is less active than narrow-bodied borers; it colonizes already strongly weakened oaks, mainly windfall, windfall and forest products together with variegated barbels. Flying in June. Lays eggs in cracks in the thick bark. The larvae sharpen long longitudinal passages clogged with drill flour, and then go deep into the surface layers of wood, where they hibernate and pupate in spring. Generation is one-year, in the forest zone it is two-year.

aspen borer(Poecilonota variolosa Payk.). Damages aspen and poplar in the southeast. Flight in May - June, two-year generation.

poplar spotted borer(Melanophila picta Pall.).

A dangerous pest of poplars in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, the Caucasus and the southeast of the European part of the USSR (Fig. 115). Years of beetles in May - June (in the southern regions of Central Asia from the end of April). During additional feeding, they eat the edges of leaves, petioles and young shoots. The female lays eggs in cracks and deepenings of the bark one at a time, less often two or three in one place. Egg development lasts 8 - 10 days. The larvae lay winding passages under the bark, filled with drill flour (the length of the passages is 12–15 cm). On thin stems, the moves are collected in balls. In autumn, the larvae go shallow into the wood, arrange a pupal cradle and hibernate in it, and pupate in spring. One-year generation.

The view is very plastic, light and heat-loving, active. It occurs wherever poplars grow, attacks trees of all ages, windblows, forest products and stumps. It especially harms young poplars on plantations and plantings, damages the lower part of stems and cuttings.

Control measures: in plantations infected with goldfish, sanitary felling and felling of freshly planted trees should be carried out, followed by their chemical treatment. In the production of crops - treatment of cuttings with slurry with hexachlorane, on plantations, coating and spraying stems with 2 - 4% working emulsion of 16% concentrate of the gamma isomer of hexachlorane.

In the conditions of Central Asia, agrotechnical measures (loosening the soil, caring for cuttings) play an important role, sharply reducing the harmful activity of the borer.

A number of Capnodis species are serious pests of tree species (especially fruit trees) in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, the steppe zone of the RSFSR, the Caucasus and the Crimea. These large borers fly from April almost all summer. Eggs are laid in the soil near the roots or directly on the roots and at the base of the trunks. The larvae damage the roots and the lower part of the trunks, turning long wide passages, often up to 2 m long. They live for two to three years. Generation is two- and four-year. Beetles hibernate under fallen leaves and in heaps of garbage. During additional nutrition, they cause great harm by gnawing at cuttings and shoots; leaves crumble to the ground, often covering it with a continuous layer.

Smoliki elephants (Pissodes)

Pissodes have a rounded rostrum, approximately in the middle of which antennae are attached. It is as long as the pronotum, slightly curved; antennal groove straight, going to lower margin of eyes. Shoulders of elytra not protruding, tibiae with hook at end. Scutellum round, large, with light scales. Elytra in spots formed by scales. The larvae are white with a yellow-brown head, blind, legless, curved. This genus includes several species of beetles that cause great harm to coniferous plantations at the age of 15 - 40 years, and sometimes even older. They subtly react to the slightest weakening of the tree and settle on various parts of the trunk. The female lays several eggs in the bark. The larvae gnaw under the bark passages that meander and gradually expand in different directions from the place of oviposition. On thin stems, the direction of the moves is longitudinal, and on thicker stems they diverge in a star-like manner. A typical pitching move is shown in Fig. 116.

The larvae pupate in the sapwood, where they make an oblong depression (cradle), which is covered with small chips. Pupation usually occurs at the end of summer, and soon a beetle emerges from the pupa, gnaws through a round outlined flight hole. The beetles usually hibernate in the forest floor and under the bark of old stumps, and start breeding in the spring. They pass additional nutrition with bast in the area of ​​thin tree bark or on young shoots and branches. Generation in all species is one-year.

Previous chapters have dealt with tar elephants that damage cones (Pissodes validirostris) and young pine crops (Pissodes notatus).

Older stands damage the following species.

Pine top resin(Pissodes piniphilus Hrbst.). Distributed in pure pine plantations 15 - 40 years. Beetles fly in June - July and lay eggs in 1 - 5 pieces. under the thin bark at the top of the pines. The larvae lay winding, gradually expanding passages between the bark and bast. On thicker trees, the passages form a star-shaped figure. The larvae overwinter and pupate in the sapwood in spring. Attacks still viable pine trees, causing them to die. Foci occur in places of mass snowfall and snowfall, with intensive thinning of dense plantations.

(Pissodes pini L.). It settles in the transitional bark of middle-aged pines (Fig. 116). The way of life is the same as that of the previous species. A very common species, accompanies the blue goldfish, pine beetles.

Spruce Smolevka(Pissodes harcyniae Hrbst.). It attacks outwardly healthy trees and is an invariable companion of root diseases of trees (mushroom, root fungus). The flight of beetles and the laying of eggs are very extended (from the end of May to July). The larvae form typical winding star-shaped passages ending in pupal cradles. Pupation in autumn or spring. Young beetles additionally feed in the upper part of the trunks, cause gumming and greatly weaken the trees.

fir resin(Pissodes piceae 111.). Damages Caucasian and white fir. Flight in May, early June, stretched. Oviposition of eggs in places with damaged bark. The larvae and beetles hibernate. Prefers thick bark area. Additional food beetles pass on the undergrowth of fir, eating away areas in the bark.

Larch resin(Pissodes insignitus Boh.). Damages all types of larches in Siberia. One-year generation.

Hymenoptera (Hymenoptera)

Horntails (Siricidae)

Horntails have a long cylindrical body, pointed at the back, in females with a prominent, sometimes long ovipositor. Larvae are whitish, cylindrical, slightly S-curved, flattened on the ventral side, with three pairs of rudimentary pectoral legs and a sharp stepped process at the posterior end of the abdomen. With the help of the ovipositor, the female drills through the bark and lays 1-3 eggs. in one place with a strip along the trunk. The larvae make round cross-sectional passages in the wood, tightly clogged with dust-like drilling flour. Trees damaged by horntail are detected by round, typical flight holes. Horntails fly from June to September. Generation is one- and two-year. Additional food does not pass.

All horntails bring technical harm; in addition, many species are very active and can attack outwardly healthy trees, choosing trunks with mechanical damage. The hidden way of life makes them inaccessible for study, and therefore the biology of a number of species is still insufficiently known.

The most common species on conifers are large conifer (Urocerus gigas L.), blue (Sirex juvencus F.), purple (S. noctilio F.), black-blue (S. ermak Sem.) and black (Xeris spectrum L. ) horntails.

Great coniferous horntail(Fig. 117) damages spruce and pine, and in the forests of Siberia - spruce, fir, Siberian cedar and larch. Generation is two-year, in the south it can be one-year. The species is ecologically plastic, settles on weakened trees in combination with barbels and borers.

Blue, purple and black horntail widely distributed in the forests of the USSR. They damage pine, spruce, fir, less often larch. Flight in the middle of summer, one- and two-year generation.

Black and blue horntail- a typical inhabitant of the Siberian taiga. Flight in July - August, two-year generation. Damages all conifers, hygrophil (Stroganova, 1968).

On hardwoods, the biology of horntails has not been studied enough. Therefore, their importance as active stem and technical pests is often underestimated. The most famous is the birch horntail (Tremex fuscicornis L.). This is the largest species living on hardwoods (body length 30 - 40 mm). It flies in August - September, the larva makes complex passages in the wood and pupates not far from the surface. The generation is biennial. Often inhabits birch together with green narrow-bodied goldsmith. The species is ecologically plastic, its foci are found in shelterbelts, in swampy birch forests, in sand-blowing hollows, etc. In addition to birch, it occasionally damages willow, aspen and elm trees.

Hardwoods are also damaged by a number of xiphidria (Xiphydriidae) - hymenopteran insects very close to horntails and usually bearing the same name. Among them, alder and oak xyphidria are especially common.

Alder xyphidria(Xiphydria camelus L.). It damages a number of deciduous species, but is especially harmful to middle-aged alder plantations, often forming large foci. Flight in June - July, one-year generation.

Oak xifidria(X. longicoltis Geoffr.). Damages oak; lifestyle, as in the previous species.

Lepidoptera (Lepidoptera)

Tree trunks are damaged by butterflies belonging to the families of carpenters and glassworms.

Woodworms (Cossidae)

Large thick-haired butterflies, leading a nocturnal lifestyle.

corrosive tree(Zeuzera pyrina L.). Butterfly with a wingspan of 40 - 70 mm, satin-white with numerous angular bluish-black spots (Fig. 118). Butterfly flight begins in the second half of June and continues until mid-August. Butterflies are not very mobile (especially females), almost do not fly and do not feed. There are usually more females in nature than males. Females lay eggs of an elliptical shape, first yellow, then orange, one at a time on the tops of young shoots, in leaf axils, on leaf scars and buds. The fertility of one female is on average 1000 eggs, sometimes 1140 and even 2280 eggs. The development of the caterpillar in the egg lasts 12-15 days (Anfinnikov, 1961).

After leaving the egg, the young caterpillar burrows into the petiole of the leaf, causing the damaged leaves to dry out and fall off prematurely. After 7-10 days, young caterpillars leave the leaves, get to the shoots of the last year, penetrate them and make passages, feeding on the core. Before the onset of low temperatures, the caterpillars have time to molt and move to the shoots of previous years, where they are clogged with a wormhole and hibernate. In the second year, in addition to vertical passages, the caterpillars make horizontal passages, which cut the vessels and weaken the tree. As they grow, the caterpillars continue to change their moves and descend further and further down the tree. In autumn, they clog up in the passages laid in the middle and lower parts of the tree, and overwinter for the second time. In the spring of the third calendar year, the caterpillars no longer change their course, but only expand the inlet in it and complete their development. The passage consists of a rather wide irregular cavity between the wood and the bark, with a hole in the latter, and a channel extending upward, first curving and then straight, up to 15–20 cm long.

The adult caterpillar is 16-legged, yellowish-white, on each segment of the body there are a number of black dots bearing one hair. Head large dark brown, body length 50 - 60 mm.

At the end of May - June, the caterpillar pupates without a cocoon in the upper part of the passage, where it overwintered. The pupa is yellowish-brown. On the head between the eyes is a short horn, apex facing forward. Its development lasts 6 - 10 days. Before the butterfly emerges, the pupa descends and protrudes halfway out of the inlet.

The tree generation is biennial, with clearly defined flight years. They most often occur in odd-numbered years. In urban plantations, there are often no clearly defined flight years.

Woodworm is polyphagous, it damages more than 70 tree species, half of which are widespread in plantations of the European part of the USSR. Ash trees are most damaged, then elm, less often oak; in a number of cities, mountain ash, ash-leaved maple, linden, white locust are heavily infected, from fruit trees - apple and pear. Of the ash trees, the common ash is most damaged, and the green ash is the least damaged.

The intensity of infection of tree species with woodworm is inversely related to the energy of their growth. Therefore, plantings and individual trees, characterized by poor growth, lack of care, and mechanical damage, are especially heavily infected. In forest conditions, the intensity of infection increases sharply after the culmination of the current increase (by 15-25 years).

Woodwort prefers lighted and heated areas, so the infestation increases towards the southern and western edges, on wide streets, with a rare standing of trees. Landings with good lateral shading, dense, with the presence of a second tier or created according to a tree-shrub type are least damaged. Plantations and trees of coppice origin are always damaged more than those that have arisen from seeds. Woodweed spreads with planting material, sometimes with wood.

Woodpecker caterpillars are exterminated by woodpeckers, and eggs by great tit. Entomophages are not of great importance in fluctuations in the number of trees. The centers of its mass reproduction in the steppe forests of the southeast of the European part of the USSR are distributed over large areas and quite stable.

Control measures are carried out in a complex. To eliminate the centers of mass distribution of woodworm and grow healthy plantations, it is necessary to carry out a set of measures. It consists of sanitary cuttings, measures to create new sustainable plantations, quarantine and chemical control measures.

Sampling of individual trees infested with woodweed should be carried out in lightly infested plantations in order to achieve the localization of emerging foci. Selective sanitary cuttings are carried out in plantations with an average degree of population, provided that they are normally dense. Under clear sanitary cuttings plantings with a density of no more than 0.6 and with a degree of infection of at least 50% are allocated. These fellings must be linked with the flight years and the timing of the development of the tree.

All felling should be accompanied by careful destruction of small branches, which can be inhabited at this time by woodworm caterpillars. It is recommended to make thinnings in tree-infested plantations once every four years, during flying years, while observing the same conditions as for sanitary cuttings.

When creating new tree-resistant plantings, it is recommended:

plantations with ash should be created according to the tree-shrub type with the introduction of ash no more than 10% of the composition, reducing this amount in the worst growth conditions, up to complete exclusion from the composition; it is better to replace ordinary and fluffy ash with green ash, and birch bark and elm with small-leaved elm;

new plantings in the immediate vicinity of the infected plantations should be made without ash, introducing oak, field maple and other resistant species into the plantations.

Planting material in nurseries must be checked before export, and if seedlings infected with tree caterpillars are found, they must be immediately destroyed. Plant nurseries no closer than 500 m from infected stands, especially ash.

In all plantations where it is possible to make individual tree care, it is advisable to use dichloroethane and hexachloran to introduce woodweed into the final passages, usually located in the lower part of the trunks. Chemicals are injected into the burrows with a rubber bulb with a curved tip or with wet swabs. The openings of the passages for a more effective action of chemicals must be covered with clay or, even better, cemented. Consumption rates - 0.5 g per stroke. Chemicals should be introduced into the openings of the passages in August - September of the interflight year or in May of the flight year, when infected trees are clearly visible by the accumulation of feces near the base of the trunks and fresh active passages are easily discernible.

On large areas, aviation-chemical spraying can be applied during the flight of butterflies and against young caterpillars using aqueous solutions of concentrated hexachlorane emulsions.

Woodworm odorous(Cossus cossus L.). Butterfly with a wingspan of 80 - 85 mm. Both pairs of wings are brownish-gray, mottled with numerous transverse black stripes. Antennae are comb-shaped (Fig. 119).

The flight of butterflies in the forest-steppe begins in the second decade of June and lasts about two weeks. In the forest zone, it is more stretched. Butterflies fly in the evening hours. Weather conditions do not significantly affect their flight. The female lays her eggs in cracks in the bark in groups of 20-70 eggs. (fluctuations 4 - 228 pieces). The female fertility is about 1000 eggs (range 237-1350 eggs). Eggs are laid by the female mainly in the first three to four days. The eggs laid in the last days are small, weighing 30% less than those laid on the first day (Nasonova, 1960). The egg phase lasts 10 - 12 days. For the first two or three days, the caterpillars sit under the shells of the eggs, then they bite under the bark and all together gnaw at the general surface course of irregular shape. Caterpillars throw out red-brown feces, which is easy to detect infection.

Caterpillars are 16-legged, 100-120 mm long, with black plaques on the body bearing hairs; head dark brown, shiny. The body color of caterpillars changes throughout life. The caterpillars that have just hatched are pink, then they become maroon, and before pupation they change color again to pink and finally turn cream.

In the first year of development, the caterpillars manage to shed four or five times. They winter in family passages, and the next year they disperse and separately grind into wood, where they make wide, mostly longitudinal passages. In total, caterpillars have eight instars, and their development lasts 22 months. In the autumn of the second year, many caterpillars leave their passages and crawl in search of a place to pupate.

Pupation occurs in the third year in the second decade of May - early June. The caterpillars pupate in a dense silky cocoon in the bud, old stumps and at the base of the tree trunks in which they lived. The pupal phase lasts about a month. The generation is biennial.

The borer inhabits mainly the lower part of tree trunks of various deciduous and fruit species: willows, poplars, alders, elms and oaks. Small but persistent perennial foci often form. The settlement is easily recognizable by the sawdust, juice flowing from the holes and the strong smell of wood vinegar.

Control measures. Sanitary felling and felling of inhabited trees in the autumn of the flight year, when the caterpillars hibernate under the bark in common passages. In gardens and urban plantings, it is possible to introduce an emulsion of hexachlorane into the tracks of the caterpillars and cover the tracks with clay.

Aspen wood borer(Cossus terebra F.). Butterflies are similar to the fragrant wood borer, but the general color tone is more gray, and not light brown, as in the previous species. Antennae combed. The lifestyle of this species is very similar to that of the previous species, but the females lay their eggs scattered, two or three eggs in one place, and do not cover them with a brown solidifying liquid. Caterpillars never crawl out of their passages, pupate in the tree where they developed, and do not make a cocoon (Zolotarenko, 1959). Generation is not exactly established. This species damages only aspen and poplar and seems to be widespread, but its caterpillars are often mistaken for caterpillars of the willow borer.

Widespread in Central Asia tamarix borer(Holcocerus arenicola Stqr.). Caterpillars live in the lower part of the trunks and roots of tamarix, saxaul and other woody plants growing in the desert and tugai forests. On tamarix, the biology of this species is similar to that of other carpenters. There are foci sporadically, but in some cases it can cause great harm to tamarix (Sinadsky, 1960).

Glassware (Aegeriidae)

Small butterflies with narrow transparent wings resembling hymenoptera insects. The hindwings are shorter than the forewings, the scales are concentrated on the veins. The body is rather slender, the abdomen is long, protruding far beyond the wings, the antennae are fusiform. They fly during the day. Caterpillars are whitish, 16-legged, with a brown head and sparse hairs regularly arranged along the rings of the body. Most species live in the wood of trees, often causing them great harm. The most widespread are dark-winged and large poplar glassware.

dark-winged glass(Paranthrene tabaniformis Rtt.). The most common and dangerous pest of poplars in the plantations of most cities. Butterfly with a wingspan of 24 - 28 mm, bluish-black, shiny, with narrow yellow rings on the abdominal segment. The forewings are coffee-brown, and transparent at the base with a slightly darker fringe. Hind wings transparent, vitreous (Fig. 120).

The flight begins in the middle lane from the end of June and in July, and in the south at the end of May. Females lay oval-elongated, tar-black eggs, one at a time or less often several at a time, on branches and trunks in places of various damage. The fertility of one female is 200 - 600 eggs. The development of a caterpillar in an egg takes 12-13 days, and at high temperatures (up to +30 ° C) it is reduced by two to three times. The caterpillars emerging from the eggs bite under the bark, where they make separate platforms (cavities), and then go deep into the wood up to 4 cm and lay longitudinal passages up to 15 - 24 mm long in it. A characteristic sign of the colonization of trees with glassware are heaps of brown excrement and drilling flour on the trunks in the places of holes and at the base of the trees.

Young caterpillars are whitish-pink, while adults are white or yellowish. Head and occipital shield brownish-brown, with two brown spinules on the last abdominal segment. Body length 22 - 24 mm. Caterpillars molt five times and have six instars. They live for two calendar years - the first year they hibernate at the third age in the cavities under the bark, and the second time - at the sixth age in the passages in the wood. Before pupation in the third calendar year in spring, they make a lateral flight path to the surface of the bark below the upper end of the passage in the wood. The caterpillar then pupates at the upper end of the passage in wood in a yellowish cocoon. The place of pupation is fenced off by the caterpillar from the rest of the course with a cork made of sawdust and cobwebs. The pupal phase lasts 12 - 14 days. Before the butterfly emerges, the pupa, with the help of abdominal spines, moves along the course, pushes a thin layer of bark apart and protrudes outward by about 2/3 of its length.

The pupa is dark yellow or red-brown, becoming almost black before the moth emerges. Length 15 - 20 mm. The generation is biennial. The glass-box populates trees of all ages, including coppice shoots already from the second year of their growth with a thickness of 0.7 cm and more. Gall-like or unilateral swellings are formed on young shoots, stems and branches in places of pest settlement. On trees 10 years old and older, glass can populate not only the lower part, but the entire trunk, forming growths along its entire length with brown juice flowing out. Inhabiting the stumps, it prevents the development of overgrowth. Through the passages of caterpillars, trees can become infected with fungal and bacterial diseases, and redness occurs inside the wood.

Large poplar glass(Aegeria apiformis Cl.) (Fig. 120). Butterfly with a wingspan of 35 - 45 mm, black-brown with lemon-yellow spots and stripes, transparent wings. In appearance, it resembles a wasp. The flight begins in the middle lane in July, in the south - in June and lasts about a month. Females lay oval-flattened, brown eggs one at a time or in small piles on the lower part of tree trunks, on roots and soil. The fertility of one female is 1000-1300 eggs; sometimes reaches 2500 eggs. The development of the caterpillar in the egg lasts two to three weeks.

The caterpillars that have emerged from the eggs are sewn under the bark of the roots of the lower part of the tree trunks, where they first gnaw out small areas, and then go deep into the sapwood and make grooved passages clogged with sawdust. In the butt part of the trunks and in thick roots, the passages are irregular, often merging into platforms, and on the roots they are longitudinal, sometimes with a deepening in the soil by 20–30 cm. Young caterpillars are pale pink, adults are white or slightly yellowish. The head is red-brown. The tergite of the last segment of the abdomen bears a small wart with an inconspicuous chitinous scutellum inclined towards the head. Body length up to 55 mm.

Caterpillars molt seven times and go through eight instars. They usually live for two calendar years, winter in tunnels, and in the third year in spring they pupate in a cradle under the bark at the butt neck in a dense cocoon of sawdust and excrement; often - in the soil near the roots. The pupal phase lasts 20 - 25 days. The pupa is brown or reddish-brown with a row of spines on the dorsal side of the abdomen. The head and pronotum with a common longitudinal keel-shaped depression protrudes 2/3 from the flight opening. After the flight of the butterfly, the skin of the pupa remains sticking out in a round flight hole. It is easy to identify the inhabited trees by this sign and large bore flour protruding from under the bark.

Control measures. With glass cases, control measures are mainly preventive in nature. When creating poplar crops by cuttings or seedlings, it is necessary to carefully reject the planting material, not allowing specimens inhabited by dark-winged glass, for which it is necessary to reject specimens with swellings and sawdust. When creating poplar crops, shading from shrubs is desirable, which prevent settlement. The introduction of elderberry is recommended. On plantations and urban plantations, it is necessary to repair plantings, replace poplars with other species, select resistant species of poplars, etc. To destroy emerging butterflies, at the end of May - June, areas of the tree trunk are coated with a paste of the following composition: 40 parts of manure, 50 parts of clay and 10 parts water. In nurseries, with valuable plantings - cutting and destruction of populated parts of plants, crushing caterpillars in passages with wire, covering damaged areas with cement, etc. Chemical treatment of valuable crops with systemic insecticides (horn, phosphamide, Bi-58), as well as chlorophos at 0 ,5 - 1% concentration during the period of hatching of larvae and their feeding in the surface layers of the bark before deepening into the wood. It is also possible to protect trees and stumps before the flight of pests with a 3-5% emulsion of the gamma isomer of HCCH (according to a 16% preparation). When populating up to 30 trees - selective chemical treatment, with a higher population - continuous treatment of plantations. The consumption of the working fluid during underwood processing is 0.2 - 0.5 l per tree, mechanized continuous - 100 - 300 l / ha. A selection of freshly planted dying trees.

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Scotch pine

Pine is a tree that, under the best growth conditions, reaches a height of 30-40 meters (sometimes up to 45) and more than a meter in diameter. The crown is transparent with a rounded or flat top, raised high. Branching is whorled, but on trunks and thick branches such whorliness is obscured by the development of individual branches and overgrowth of traces of dead and fallen branches. Nevertheless, up to 30-40 years, the age of a tree can be determined quite accurately from well-marked whorls, assuming that one whorl is formed annually.

Burn with bright flames
Pines old, mighty,
Dressed up coniferous nets
And covered with gold-woven.
S. Yesenin.

growing fast
Pine is growing fast. The increase in height from 10 to 40 years is especially significant. Pine has plastic
root system, which may vary depending on edaphic (ed. soil) conditions.
Pine grows mainly on soils of light mechanical composition, lives up to 350-600 years.

ABUNDANCE OF PINE FOREST LIGHT
We will enter the pine forest after visiting the cedar forest. What is the first thing that catches your eye? An abundance of light! There is no that severity and even gloom in the whole forest environment. Huge columns of trunks seem to rest their tops with crowned evergreen crowns in the sky.

FLOWER TIME
Pine blossoms in spring. Flowers male and female are located on the same tree. The male spikelets (red) fall off after the pollen leaves, while the female ones continue to develop.
During pollination, everything in the pine forest is filled with golden pollen. It lies on the trees, on the grass, on your clothes. The weight of pollen is negligible, and it is carried by the wind over great distances.
The whole process of seed development lasts a year and a half. They ripen in autumn and are in cones all winter, but in spring, when warm weather sets in, the cones open and the seeds fall out. Opened empty cones hang for another two or three years.
The seeds are small, have a wing, with its help they are carried by the wind up to two kilometers from the tree.

bark of young trees
The bark of young trees is gray, then becomes brownish-red with long longitudinal cracks in the lower part. In the upper part of the trunk and on the branches in the crown, the bark is orange-reddish, smooth, peeling off in large thin films. Needles steam room, lives two or three years (sometimes up to eight years).
Seeds mature on average 18 months after pollination and are dispersed by wind. They are oblong-ovate, slightly flattened, with a blunt wing. On an annual plant, the needles are located singly, on a two-year-old plant they are paired, whorls form on the shoots of a three-year-old.
Therefore, when determining the age of trees by whorls, the first two years of life, when the whorls have not yet formed, are added to the number taken into account.

THICK PINE BARK - RESCUE FROM RUNNING FIRES
The bark is thick, in the butt part it reaches ten centimeters and reliably protects the trunk from fire. The thickness of the bark at a height of 30-50 centimeters from the ground is five times thicker than in the middle of the trunk.
Therefore, the so-called runaway forest fires, which spread along the ground and quickly destroy young trees, are not dangerous. This invaluable quality of the species allows it to successfully spread and live.

AMBER IS ALSO PINE RESIN, ONLY…
And who does not know about the wonderful amber? Amber is also pine resin, only it has lain in the ground for millions of years. In some pieces of amber, there are insects that once made a rash step, sitting on the leaking resin - resin.
And now scientists have the opportunity to study insects that lived on earth millions of years ago.
Amber has a rich light range - from golden yellow and red to blue-green and almost black. Not only jewelry is made of amber: rings, brooches, necklaces, bracelets, but also decorative sculpture and mosaic panels.
The highest achievement of the art of processing amber was the famous amber room in Tsarskoye Selo near St. Petersburg, in which everything, from a small thing to the walls, was made of carved amber.

DO YOU KNOW THAT…
Pine forests emit a huge amount of oxygen into the atmosphere and absorb carbon dioxide. It is estimated that each hectare of a pine forest releases more than five tons of oxygen per year, which relieves fatigue and causes an emotional lift in a person.

PHYTONCIDAL PROPERTIES OF PINE PLANTS
Pine plantations are characterized by very high phytoncidal properties. The needles of a tree in the process of life release volatile protective substances into the atmosphere, which are toxic to many microorganisms, killing or delaying the growth and reproduction of the latter.
In pine, bactericidal properties are most pronounced in the second half of July, and in hardwood - in June.

DUST AND GAS PROTECTION PROPERTIES OF THE PINE FOREST
In pine forests, dust and gas protective properties are most pronounced. It entirely depends on the needles, their quantity and the surface, which turns out to be extremely large. The area of ​​pine on one hectare of a pine plantation is about ten hectares.
In a well-developed adult pine tree, the total length of the needles exceeds two hundred kilometers! Hence the great filtering capacity of the tree.

PINE FORESTS ARE PEOPLE'S FAVORITE RECREATION PLACE
Pine forests drastically reduce the noise level, absorbing high-frequency vibrations that are most harmful to humans from its spectrum. The air in the pine forests is "saturated" with resinous substances that have a beneficial effect on the human body. Due to their high healing properties, pine forests are favorite place mass recreation at any time of the year.
Therefore, they have numerous sanatoriums and rest houses.

SANITARY PREPARATION
There used to be a saying: "The pine feeds, the linden shoes."
The fact that the linden shoes is understandable, because in the old days the peasants wove shoes from bast bast. But how the pine feeds is not so easy to guess ... Only from history can one learn that in the famine years, the peasants removed the thin bark from the pines and scraped off the inner shell, called the pulp. The pulp was dried, crushed and mixed with flour.

PINE GOES TOGETHER TO THE BUSINESS
Pine is one of those rare trees that go into business entirely, without residue, from roots to top. Needles, branches, cones, resin and root - all this, as well as stem wood, is a valuable raw material for various industries. Pine needles contain many useful substances, which is why it has long been used in folk medicine for the preparation of medicinal tinctures and decoctions. At modern enterprises, essential oils are extracted from needles, used in perfumery and medicine, and coniferous-vitamin flour is used to feed animals.

ROOTS
From thin and long, rope-like roots, village craftsmen wove various vessels called rhizomes. Before weaving, the root was washed, peeled and split into two. The extraordinary flexibility of the roots made it possible to weave dishes of a very complex shape, with a texture resembling fabric. The craftsmen wove the roots so tightly that the peasants kept salt, sand and starch in wicker dishes.

SEED DISTRIBUTION
On dry sunny days, already in April, you can hear a light, barely perceptible click in the pine forest. Raise your head and immediately notice a lot of gray fluttering dots against the light background of the sky. It is flying, spinning in the air, winged pine seeds. In the wind and sun, the cones have dried up and are now opening, freeing the ripened seeds from winter captivity. Squirrels, woodpeckers and crossbills are hunters of pine seeds.

APPLICATION AND USE OF PINE CONES
People harvest pine seeds in winter, from December to April, before the cones have time to open. Then they are dried in special dryers and the seeds are extracted from them. But empty cones do not go to waste.
Pine cones are the best fuel for the famous Russian samovars, they burn beautifully and keep the heat for a long time.
Fans of crafts made from natural materials use cones to make various funny figurines. Once in a warm and dry room, the cones brought from the forest will inevitably open after some time. To keep some of the cones unopened, they are dipped in liquid wood glue.

PINE WHIRLS - AN ESSENTIAL TOOL OF KITCHEN WORK
The whorled arrangement of branches near the pine tree inspired the peasants to cut out many items needed in peasant life. In peasant huts even now, somewhere near a Russian stove, one can see a stick polished with corns with flyers at one end. This is the pine whorl, an indispensable kitchen tool when you need to beat butter, quickly crush boiled potatoes in a cast-iron, or knead the dough in a kneader.

BEFORE
Resinous pine roots were used as fuel in primitive peasant lamps. They burned longer than a birch torch, gave more light, illuminating even the far corners of the hut.
And when hunting with a spear in the old days, in a lamp mounted on the bow of the shuttle, only pine roots were burned - they burned without crackling, which means they did not scare away the fish.

PROTECTIVE RESIN
Damaged pine releases a resin that protects plants from penetration into the wood fibers of harmful organisms. That is why this resin is called resin, because it heals, embalms the wounds of trees.
And, apparently, noticing this property of the resin, gardeners began to heal the wounds of fruit trees with it, making a plaster from it with the addition of wood oil and wax.
Lumberjacks and hunters have long noticed the ability of resin to heal wounds. If there is no first-aid kit at hand, then instead of a bandage or plaster, a clean resin was applied to the wound.
By the way, the patch that we buy at the pharmacy also includes pine resin. They also put resin on aching teeth to relieve toothache. And the inhabitants of the Caucasus even prepared a special medicinal chewing gum from pine resin.
In the old days, resin diluted with alcohol was used as a rub for aches. Until now, turpentine obtained from resin is used as a rubbing. In some regions, peasants smoked a hut with the smoke of burning resin in winter to purify the air and remove the bad smell.

BY THE WAY
The balms with which the ancient Egyptians soaked mummies, surviving to this day and surviving millennia also include pine resin in their composition.

THE MAGIC POWER OF A PINE BRANCH
Magical power was also attributed to an ordinary pine branch. Western Slavs from one new year holiday before another, they kept a pine branch in the hut, which, according to their ideas, should protect the house from the machinations of evil forces, protect the peace and well-being of the inhabitants of the hut.
By the arrival of the New Year, the old withered branch was replaced with a fresh one.
The superstitious notions associated with the pine branch have long been forgotten. But even now in a modern home you can find a pine branch standing in a crystal vase as an interior decoration.

PINE AND RITES
Violating the rules of botany, a pine tree is called a Christmas tree once a year. In the southern regions of our country, where the pine tree does not grow, instead of it, a pine tree is dressed and honored on New Year's Eve.
But unlike the Christmas tree, the pine is dressed not only on New Year's Eve. In some regions of Russia, there was a custom to dress up before the wedding at a bachelorette party, when the bridesmaids sang ritual songs.
A carpet was placed in the middle of the table, a young pine was stuck into it and, like a bride, it was decorated with colored ribbons and wildflowers.
In wedding songs, the bride was compared to a young pine tree:

Pine, young pine,
What are you, pine, not green,
Young, young, young,
What are you, a young woman is not cheerful.