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Operational information on the phytosanitary status of agricultural crops in Ukraine as of May 4, 2026.

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In crops winter rapeseed harm cruciferous fleas - 1-34% of the area is inhabited, a maximum of 100% (Poltava, Kyiv region), 1-3% of plants with a number of 0.1-4.0 specimens/m2, 1-7% of plants were damaged (Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Cherkasy, Kherson, Sumy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhia regions), whiteflies – 3-50% of the area is occupied, 3-6% of the plants at the number of 1.5-3 specimens/plant, 3-7% of the plants are damaged (Poltava, Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk regions), rapeseed (seed) hidden octopus - 8-50% of the area is inhabited, maximum - 80-100% of the area (Kyiv, Lviv region), 1-8% of plants at the number of 0.2-3.0 specimens/plant, 1-8% of plants are damaged (Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Odesa, Cherkasy, Poltava, Lviv, Chernivtsi regions), stem cabbage hidden octopus - 2-35% of the area is inhabited, maximum - 80% of the area (Kyiv oblast), 1-4% of plants at the number of 0.2-4.0 specimens/plant, 1-8% of plants are damaged (Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Rivne, Odesa, Volyn, Kirovohrad, Chernihiv, Khmelnytsky, Chernivtsi oblasts), great rapeseed roach - 5-50% of the area is inhabited, maximum - 80% of the area (Kyiv region), 1-4% of plants at the number of 0.2-2.0 specimens/plant, 1-8% of plants are damaged (Poltava, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Volyn, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhia regions) rape flower eater - 1-40% of the area is inhabited, maximum - 78-100% of the area (Rivnensk, Poltava, Lviv oblast), 1-35% of plants at the number of 0.2-4.0 specimens/plant, 0.8-50% of plants are damaged (Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Poltava, Lviv, Odesa, Cherkasy, Kherson, Volyn, Chernihiv, Khmelnytskyi, Zaporizhzhya, Zakarpattia, Chernivtsi regions), Olenka is hairy – 5-11% of the area is inhabited, 2-5% of plants at the rate of 1-2 specimens/plant, 2-5% of plants are damaged (Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa regions), winter scoop – 15-55% of the area is inhabited, 1-3% of plants at the number of 0.3-1.0 specimens/m2, 1-3% of plants were damaged (Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi regions), larvae of roaches – 15% of the area is inhabited, 1% of the plants at the rate of 0.5 copies/m2, 1% of plants were damaged (Kyivska region), wire workers - 50% of the areas are inhabited at a rate of 0.5 units/m2, 1% of plants were damaged (Kyivska region), aphids – 1.5-5% of the area is inhabited, 0.6-3% of plants at the number of 3.0-8.0 specimens/plant, 0.5-5% of plants are damaged (Odesa, Cherkasy, Chernivtsi regions), cabbage moth – 3% of the area is inhabited, 2% of the plants are 0.5-1.0 copies/plant, 1-2% of the plants are damaged (Odesa Region), White people – 5% of the area is inhabited, 2% of the plants are 0.5-1.0 copies/plant, 1-2% of the plants are damaged (Odesa Region), rape leaf eater – 14-15% of the area is inhabited, 2% of the plants at the number of 1.0-1.1 specimens/m2, 1-4% of plants were damaged (Kherson, Kirovohrad regions),

Alternariosis 3.5-34% of the area is affected winter rapeseed, a maximum of 70% of the area (Kyiv region), 1.5-6% of plants with the development of the disease 0.1-2% (Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Zaporizhzhya, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Rivne, Chernivtsi regions), peronosporosis - 1-35% of the area, a maximum of 100% (Poltava region), 1-9% of plants with disease development 0.1-5% (Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Odesa, Kherson, Poltava, Cherkasy, Volyn, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Khmelnytskyi regions), phomosome - 3-22% of the area, maximum 80-100% (Kyiv, Poltava regions), 1-10% of plants with disease development 0.1-10% (Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Odesa, Rivne, Kherson, Poltava, Zakarpattia, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytsky regions), bacteriosis - 1-42% of areas, 2-4% of plants due to the development of the disease 0.5-1% (Kyiv, Chernivtsi regions), cylindrosporizoma - 5% of the area, 2-3% of the plants due to the development of the disease 0.5% (Odesa region).

Omnivorous pests.

Wireworms, false wireworms, roach larvae: in the sowing of winter crops and perennial grasses, on the sown seeds of spring crops, in the plantations of fruit and berry crops, they are noted on 15-60% of the area, at most - on 100% of the area (Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi regions), on 0.5-3% of plants in the amount of 0.1-1.0 specimens/m2, 1-3% of plants were slightly damaged (Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi regions).

Sand medlar: in crops of winter cereals, winter rape, spring barley, peas, sunflowers, perennial grasses, noted on 2-52% of the area, maximum - on 100% of the area (Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv regions), in the amount of 0.2-3.0 specimens/m2, 0.5-3% of plants were slightly damaged (Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Odesa, Kharkiv regions).

Nibbling scoops (winter, autumn): in crops of winter grain crops, winter rapeseed, perennial grasses, on non-arable land, caterpillars inhabit 11-55% of the area, the maximum is 100% of the area (Khmelnytskyi region), 0.5-2% of plants, in the amount of 0.3-1.0 specimens/m2, maximum - up to 2.0 copies/m2 (Khmelnytskyi region), 1-4% of plants were damaged to a weak degree (Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi regions).

Bilany: in winter rapeseed crops, gardens, on non-arable land, fallow land, moths were observed flying in the amount of 1-3 specimens in the field of vision in 10 minutes on 0.5-10% of the area, caterpillars were found on 2-3% of the area in the amount of 0.5-1 specimen/plant or up to 1 specimen. on 1 m of linear branch (Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kherson region).

Mouse-like rodents: in crops of winter wheat, winter rape, on arable land for sowing corn, non-arable land is inhabited by 5-10%, the maximum - up to 100% (Lviv, Khmelnytskyi region), the area in the amount from single burrows to 2 colonies/ha for 1-6 living burrows/colony (Kirovohrad, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi region).

Olenka is hairy: in winter rapeseed crops on 5-11% of the area along the edge of the field, a pest was noted in the amount of 1.0-2.0 copies/plant, 2-5% of plants were damaged, mostly to a light degree (Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa regions); in gardens - 5-50% of the area is inhabited, 3-10% of trees in the amount of 1-4 copies/tree (Odesa, Cherkasy region).

 

Prepared by the Laboratory of Forecasts and Plant Quarantine of the Research Center of the National Academy of Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences based on the materials of regional institutions of the National Academy of Sciences and the State Production and Consumer Service

Galagan T.O.
Fedorenko A.V.
Bakhmut O.O.
Vovkotrub O.M.