INSECTS - PESTS OF AGRICULTURAL CROPS IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE TAMBOV REGION
Information about the causes and conditions of mass reproduction of harmful insects is of practical value. No less significant for the practice of protecting plants, knowledge of insect migrations and their accumulations, the distribution and reservations of harmful types of food forms on cultivated plants, the stability of varieties of cultivated plants to harmful insects, the forecasts of the time of the appearance of harmful phases in nature. The group of pests of potatoes and cabbage is the Colorado beetle and cabbage white, respectively. They are widespread in the Tambov region and are dangerous pests of agricultural crops. Their development depends on the ambient temperature.