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PROFOREST WP 7.2. Attractants/anti-attractants in forest protection Networking. Wojciech GRODZKI Dept. of Forest Management in Mountain Regions, Kraków. Objective. Improving the knowledge of young scientists about the chemoecological research by the cooperation with European laboratories.
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PROFOREST WP 7.2 Attractants/anti-attractants in forest protection Networking Wojciech GRODZKI Dept. of Forest Management in Mountain Regions, Kraków
Objective • Improving the knowledge of young scientists about the chemoecological research by the cooperation with European laboratories.
Methodology & study materials • Short term visits connected with the use of attractants/antiattractants in the forest protection against bark and wood boring insects: • Continuous networking by common field experiments and current e-mail contacts. • Current contacts during various scientific meetings.
Internal visits: dr Jaroslav Holuša from the Forestry and Game Management Research Institute Jiloviště-Strnady, Czech Republic(June/July 2004). Goals: • extension of the knowledge about the chemical communication in insects, research methods and results, and perspectives for forestry; • definition of possibilities for common research on the attractants and antiattractants of bark beetles feeding on Norway spruce; Timing: visit planned for Month 16, executed in Month 15 Changes resulted from natural conditions and current activities
Internal visits: dr Rastislav Jakuš from Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia (Febuary 2005) Goals: • definition of possibilities for common research on the attractants and antiattractants of bark beetles feeding on Norway spruce – working meeting with doc. Fredrik Schlyter (SLU Alnarp) and doc. Petr Zahradnik (FGMRI Jiloviště-Strnady), before the PROFOREST Advisory Board meeting in Kraków; Timing: visit not planned, executed in Month 23 (good opportunity for discussions before 2005 vegetation season)
Treated trees: Semi-commercial antiattractants IT-REP (Fytofarm, Slovakia) Antiattractants field tests 2004 Experimental site: Poland – Beskidy Mts., Węgierska Górka Forest District Design:
Antiattractants field tests 2004 9 replications in selected stand edges Checking every month during vegetation season Additional checking needed in the spring 2005 Processing of results – in progress
Pilot „push-pull” experiment Experimental site: Poland – Beskidy Mts., Węgierska Górka Forest District 10 trees with antiattractants; A set of pheromone traps Checking every month
Ips amitinus Eichh. • Experiments on I. amitinus pheromones planned for 2004 • Living beetles collected in the spring
Ips amitinus Eichh. • Technical problems with the transfer of living beetles to Sweden (quarantine) • Alternative solutions needed (2005?)
Milestones WP7.2-D. Reports on common laboratory and field research using attractants and anti-attractants in the protection of forests against pest insects. Milestone in the year 2 planned for Month 16. Common experiments prepared and started in the summer 2004 (Month 16, data not finally processed.
Deliverables WP7.2-DReports concerning common laboratory and field research with using attractants and anti-attractants in the protection of forests against pest insects. Planned delivery – Month 35 (expected delivery on time)