Regular monitoring and reliable protection Agricultural news Friday, April 17, 2026 09:04 An unusually cold winter compared to previous years has somewhat adjusted the number of certain types of agricultural crop pests. However, this does not mean that farmers can afford to relax in controlling this problem, experts from the company Ukravit emphasize. With the onset of consistently favorable air temperatures, pests can cause significant damage to crops, and therefore the situation requires constant monitoring and timely response. Rising average daily temperatures are a kind of signal for pests to massively colonize crops, and for farmers, it is a sign to start insecticidal protection, notes Iryna Usova, the product manager for the "Insecticides" line at Ukravit. Today, in winter and spring cereal crops, there is a gradual colonization and damage to plants by bread beetles, cereal flies, aphids, leafhoppers, and bugs. On winter rapeseed crops throughout Ukraine, there is an early and ma
An unusually cold winter compared to previous years has somewhat adjusted the number of certain types of agricultural crop pests. However, this does not mean that the farmer can afford to relax in controlling this problem, specialists from the company Ukravit emphasize. With the onset of stable favorable air temperatures, pests can cause significant damage to crops, and therefore the situation requires constant monitoring and timely response. Against common pests of spring and winter cereals, rapeseed and legumes, Iryna recommends choosing the complex contact-system insecticide KhimArs (thiamethoxam, 250 g/l + lambda-cyhalothrin, 80 g/l + alpha-cypermethrin, 15 g/l). Thiamethoxam is quickly absorbed and transported by the vascular system of plants, and upon receiving a lethal dose by the pest, it blocks the nicotinic receptors in the postsynaptic membrane of the synapse, resulting in the cessation of nerve impulse transmission and the pest's motor activity, preventing it from ...