Agricultural and forest pests

Are insect pests that negatively affect the growth or health of crops in plant cultivation, horticulture, fruit growing and forestry. Agricultural pests in plantations of fruit, vegetables, cereals, potatoes, cotton, tobacco and cannabis can lead to significant crop losses. Activities of forest pests in forests and parks can cause trees to dry out and die.

Well-known types of agricultural pests are whitefly, aphids, spider mites, fringe flies (thrips), fruit flies, potato beetles, fire bugs, turnip leaf wasps. Fire bugs living in the tropics and subtropics feed on the oily seeds of cotton plants, which can cause enormous damage to plantations.

Studies show that climate change clearly favours the spread of agricultural pests. They also prefer the ideal conditions of urban gardens in cities to build up and maintain their populations in the long term.

Well-known species of forest pests are bark beetles, oak moth, pine moth, common nail beetle (woodworm), gypsy moth and other louse, moth and beetle species. Forest pests preferentially attack weakened trees and cause their death.