the textbook “Pests of Forest Plantations” (2005, 2008), and “Agricultural
Entomology. The Names of the Main Pests of Agricultural Crops and Forest
Plantations” (2007, 2010) edited by him [7, 14, 15].
B.M. Lytvynov paid a great attention to the improvement of the educational
process, and the aesthetic appearance of the Department. Under the direction of the
scientist and thanks to his active participation, a series of unique visual training
manuals for the preparation, control and self-control of students' knowledge on special
disciplines: Zoology, General and Agricultural Entomology (the co-author is the
Associate Professor V.I. Oparenko) was created. For 11 years B.M. Lytvynov
successfully headed the Kharkiv Branch of the Ukrainian Entomological Society, for
5 years he headed a Specialized Academic Council for the defense of Doctors of
Sciences and Ph. D. in the specialty “Entomology”, for 15 years he placed himself at
the head of the economic and contractual thematic work on the introduction of new
scientific developments of the Department in production, for many years Lytvynov was
the editor-in-chief of the collected articles of the scientific works of the Faculty of Plant
Protection’s staff [4, 6, 9].
According to the decision of the Academic Council of Kharkiv National Agrarian
University named after V.V. Dokuchaiev (proceedings № 2, February 25, 2015) the
Department of Zoology and Entomology was given the name of Professor
B.M. Lytvynov [7, 14, 15].
Professors V.G. Averin, O.O. Mihulin, B.M. Lytvynov laid the foundation of the
priority direction in Ecology and Plant Protection, the direction of managing the
dynamics of harmful and beneficial organisms population, they trained the talented
students and their followers. At that time, the staff of the Department worked fruitfully
under the leadership of these scientists. The considerable attention was paid to training
the Doctors of Sciences and Philosophy Doctors. In the 1960s and 1980s, the teachers
of the Department developed and implemented the course “Harmful Nematodes, Mites,
and Rodents” into the educational process, they specified the economic thresholds of
harmfulness of many species, developed and produced the first in the institute the
automated training stands on the taxonomy of insects and pests of agricultural crops.
Professors Ye.M. Biletskyi, B.M. Lytvynov and Associate Professor M.O. Bilyk
carried out the large-scale studies on the biology and ecology of egg parasites in order
to seasonally colonize them against the sun pest and codling moth. However, under
modern conditions this method has not proved itself.
The group of scientists from the Institute of Plant Cultivation named after
V.Ya. Yuriev (Y.M. Biletskyi, V.M. Grama, V.P. Grytsayi) and from Kharkiv
National Agrarian University named after V.V. Dokuchaiev (B.M. Lytvynov,
V.I. Oparenko, M.O. Filatov) made the monographic studies of the fauna and ecology
of the wild bees, the pollinators of alfalfa. The effective methods for preservation,
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