DAMAGE TO LIME AND HORSE CHESTNUT TREES BY INVASIVE LEAF MINERS IN GREEN STANDS OF SETTLEMENTS WITHIN THE BORDERS AND IN THE VICINITY OF SOME PROTECTED NATURE AREAS OF BELARUS

UDC 632.78 (476)

 

Yakouchyk Fedar – PhD student, the Department of Zoology. Belarusian State University (4, Nezavisimosti Ave., 220030, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: Yakovchi@bsu.by

Roginsky Alexey – PhD (Biology), Assistant Professor, the Department of Zoology. Belarusian State University (4, Nezavisimosti Ave., 220030, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: roginski@gmail.com

Buga Sergey – DSc (Biology), Professor, Head of the Department of Zoology. Belarusian State University (4, Nezavisimosti Ave., 220030, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: sergey.buga@gmail.com

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52065/2519-402Х-2024-282-14.

 

Key words: Cameraria ohridella, Phyllonorycter issikii, common horse chestnut, small-leaved lime, leaf-mining insects, alien species.

For citation: Yakouchyk F., Roginsky А., Buga S. Damage to lime and horse chestnut trees by invasive miners in green stands of settlements within the borders and in the vicinity of some protected nature areas of Belarus. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 1, Forestry. Nature Management. Processing of Renewable Resources, 2024, no. 2 (282), pp. 114–121 (In Russian). DOI: 10.52065/2519-402Х-2024-282-14.

Abstract

Within the boundaries and in the vicinity of protected nature areas of Belarus there are settlements with green stands with ornamental trees and shrubs growing there. Aboriginal and introduced woody plants are damaged by phytophagous insects, including invasive species alien to the fauna of Belarus. The paper deals with estimations of damage parameters by invasive species of mining moths (Gracillariidae), the lime leaf miner (Phyllonorycter issikii (Kumata, 1963)) and the horse-chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella Deschka & Dimič, 1986), aboriginal small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata Mill.) and introduced the horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum L.) in green stands within the borders and in the vicinity of the National parks ˮBraslav Lakes“and ˮNarochansky“, Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve, and the Republican landscape reserve ˮNaliboksky“ at the end of the growing season 2023. The area of individual mines and/or total area of damage (mines) on leaf plates was estimated by methods of computer planimetry, the area of damaged leaf surface was assessed. A considerable scatter of values of the parameters under the view was noted, the coefficients of variation for these ones ranged from 21.13 to 84.58%. The use of non-parametric Mann – Whitney and Kolmogorov – Smirnov difference criteria revealed statisticallysignificant (p < 0.01) differences in the relative area of damaged leaf surface of lime trees in Berezinsky biosphere reserve and the Republican landscape reserve ˮNaliboksky“, while that of the horse chestnuts also in the National Park ˮNarochansky“. At the same time, the levels of loss of ornamental value of small-leaved limes due to damage by larvae of Ph. issikii in green stands of protected areas are assessed as insignificant, while the levels of loss of ornamental value of the horse chestnuts due to damage by larvae of C. ohridella range from insignificant to appreciable.

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