Coming in June the next treatment against pine beetle in Stara Zagora municipality.
This was announced by the deputy mayor of the local administration, Radostin Tanev. It was clear from his words that he would begin placing pheromone traps and at the end of September, spraying will take place again.
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“For this purpose, we will request permission for the activities to be filled with drones”Tanev added. He recalled that in March of this year, the mechanical removal of the pine processionary nests began.
The activities included cutting out the nests of the larval pests in the trees with truck and putting them in a plastic bag, which was destroyed in an incinerator.
“The pine processionary has no natural enemies and the fight against it is very difficult, but all the measures taken will be a barrier to the spread of the population,” explained the deputy mayor.
He commented that the stages for combating the pest through complex treatment were discussed by an expert committee formed by landscape architects and forest officials who are made an inspection of the state of tree species in the largest park in Stara Zagora municipality “Metropolitan Metodiy Kusev” (Ayazmoto).
The active intervention of the municipality of Stara Zagora and the territorial division of “State Forestry – Stara Zagora” in the autumn of failed to destroy the pest.
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Spraying was carried out by the municipality of nad 400 decares of territories, of which “Metropolitan Methodius Kusev” park, the forest massifs above “Tri Chuchura – North” quarter and “Dabrava” quarter, as well as another 214 decares of municipal and 3800 decares of state, processed by forestry.
The population was partially limited, because the activities take place in an urbanized environment and the fight is biological. The use of chemical insecticides is also inadmissible, because biological diversity will be disturbed.
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