RESEARCH ON THE ARTHROPOD SPECIES EXISTING IN POTATO CROPS

Abstract

The research was carried out in 2022 in a potato crop in the Radauti-Suceava area, at the Varieties Testing Center, subordinate to the State Institute for Varieties Testing and Registration, Bucharest.To collect the material, were used Barber soil traps of the wet type, in which a 20% sodium chloride (NaCl) solution was placed.
We used 3 variants, each with 6 repetitions, as follows:V1, in which treatments were applied against pests, with products approved for organic agriculture, V2, in which treatments were applied against pathogens and pests in conventional agriculture, V3, in which no pest control treatment was applied.
The harvest of the captured material were made during the months of June, July and the first decade of August. The collected arthropods belong to the following groups:Insects: wasps, ants, flies, bedbugs, plant lice, cicadas, etc., mites, millipedes, isopods, etc.