PLANT INSECT CONTROL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600040339-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 339
• Publication Date: August 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CLASSIFICATION CQFIDBVTIAL/SECUEITY L! O MATIOP'
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Plant Insect Control
DATE DISTR. I !,1953
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1. In the Ukrainian BSR there are three basic methods of plant insect control. These are as
follows: (a) Handpicking. As crude as it may be, this method is widely used and is
carried on continuously. Whenever a heavy plague of insects threatens, pickers are
mobilized and sent to the area. carload after carload of insects carried away
that had been picked by this met a tion to handpicking, chickens are also
utilized, being turned loose whenever a heavy plague of insects arrives at an area. (b)
Chemical spraying. Much of this is carried out in the Ukraine. Tha various agricultural
experimental stations will recommend the type of spray deemed advisable and forward their
recommendation to the Minister of Agri-.ulture for approval. The Minister will decide when
and what to use. (c) Biological. This method has been used successfully for approsisiate-
ly 20 yearn. It consists of breeding certain types of insects that will feed an the parti-
cular plant insect which is destroying the crop. As an example, there in a smell butterfly
prevalent in the Ukraine called Ozgamaga Souka (Intin now - Euxogessgetam 1eltis). This
butterfly attacks and destroys practically every type of crop. Entomologists finally
discovered and bred numerous types of bugs to combat this butterfly. This bug is known as
Trikogroma-E?anecrens. In addition to this insect destroying insect, entomologists in tQ.s
USSR have developed other insects for combatting various types of plagues.
2. The sugar beet industry has almost been wiped out on several occasions by a long nosed bug
known as the Sugar Beet Long Nose. The Soviet name is Dolgonosik and the Latin name,
Bothynoderes-Punctiventris. The breeding time of this peat is approxi tely four swaths.
Each female lays approximately 120 eggs. Some of the eggs do not batch during the four
month period and will lie dormant in the soil for as such as a year.
3. Entomologists in the USSR are continually attemnting to combat outbreaks of locusts, grass-
hoppers, etc. Their hardest problem with migratory pests of this type is trying to deter-
mina and predict outbreaks.
4. Whenever a plague of insects invades an area, there is an organization known as Whit, the
All-Union Institute for Defense of Plante that goes'into action. This Organisation 1i' -
located in MosouP. When the plague is reported, wo keys and equ pssat needed to saafat the
insects are rushed, to the area. This is a central oooadinating organiaatiaa for all other
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