researches of parasitic and predatory mites in agroceonoses, also developed the
ecological bases for the management of the sustainable development of agricultural
landscapes on the basis of the ecosystems theory. They also gave a series of
recommendations concerning the methods of research, determinations and the
measures for the protection of plants from the mites. I.Z. Livshyts and
V.M. Mytrofanov are included into the list of prominent acarologists (аkаri – mites)
of the world.
The significant studies in the sphere of Theoretic and Applied Acarology are
being conducted at the Institute of Zoology named after I.I. Shmalhauzen at the
National Academy of Sciences; there the school of the acarologists has been formed.
The important scientific data are included into the works about the biological basis of
the harmfulness of acaroids mites and predatory and parasitic Cheyletidae mites. These
works were published by the scientists in 1985 and 1990 accordingly. In the
monograph “Predatory Mites in the Covered Soil”, published by I.A. Akimov and
L.A. Kolodochka in 1991, the biological methods of protecting plants from two-
spotted spider mites and the western flower thrips with the help of the predatory
Phytoseiidae (L.) mites were examined [13, 16].
The studies on Agricultural Acarology are also conducted by the scientists of the
Institute of Plant Protection, the Institute of Horticulture, and other institutions of
National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, and also of agricultural higher educational
establishments.
The
scientists
M.Ya. Dayilevskyi,
M.A. Dobrovolskyi,
O.O. Sylantiev,
I.K. Rakhmaninov, I.K. Tarnani, Ye.V. Zviezoromb-Zubovskyi, M.O. Kamyshnyi,
I.D. Bilanovskyi,
Ye.M. Savchenko,
V.V. Shcherbakov,
V.P. Vasyliev,
M.A. Telenha,
M.F. Rudniev,
O.J. Petrukha,
M.P. Diadechko,
I.I. Korab,
Ye.M. Zhytkevych, Ye.V. Klokov, B.M. Lytvynov, O.V. Zahovora, B.A. Areshnikov,
J.T. Pokozii,
V.G. Dolin,
P.I. Sussidko,
V.M. Pyssarenko,
S.O. Trybel,
V.P. Fedorenko, V.S. Shelestova, Ye.M. Biletskyi and others made a significant
contribution to the theoretical and practical development of Agricultural Ecology
during the historical period of its development in Ukraine.
The scientists of Zoology and Entomology Department of Kharkiv National
Agrarian University named after V.V. Dokuchaiev have been carrying the researches
in the field of agricultural entomology. Four academic schools, founded by the
professors V.G. Averin (“Comparative and Ecological Approach in Population
Dynamics Research”), O.O. Mihulin (“The Problems of the Dynamic of Harmful
Organisms Population”), B.M. Lytvynov (“Ecologically Oriented System of Fruit
Plantings Protection from Pests”), and Ye.M. Biletskyi (“The Problem of the Long Term
Forecasting of Mass Reproduction of Harmful Insects”) were formed here [7, 14, 15].
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