PROFOREST WP 7.2

Attractants/anti-attractants in forest protectionNetworking

Wojciech GRODZKIDept. 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 15Changes 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)

Forestry and Game ManagementForest Research Institute Research Institute Jiloviste Strnady

Zvolen, Slovakia CE PROFOREST Czech RepublicForest Research Institute

WarsawInstitut National de la Recherche Institute of Forest Ecology SASAgronomique, Bordeaux, France Zvolen, Slovakia

Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesChemical EcologyAlnarp, Sweden

common experiments in 2004

partners to be included in next phase partners alrady included into existing network

networking startednetworking planned scientific supervision & consultingdissemination of knowledge

Networking – current status

Treated trees:

Semi-commercial antiattractants IT-REP (Fytofarm, Slovakia)

Antiattractants field tests 2004Experimental 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” experimentExperimental 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-D Reports 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)