Pea sprouts began to be infested by pests.

In the farms of Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions, pea crops are infested by pea weevils, sandy wireworm, which at pre-threshold numbers have damaged 1-3% of the crop plants to a slight degree. This is stated in the report of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Rights regarding the phytosanitary condition of agricultural crops. Perennial leguminous grasses are everywhere infested by pea weevils (sittones), clover seedeater apion, sandy wireworm, which in numbers of 0.2-4 specimens per square meter have damaged 1-5%, in concentrations up to 18% of the plants. On sunny, warm days, individual butterflies of cabbage and rapeseed whites (Odesa, Kherson, Cherkasy regions) are observed on uncultivated ...