Programme of special control over the presence of harmful insects in plant production on the territory of Republika Srpska in 2021.

This Programme, based on the provisions of the Law on plant health protection (Republic of Srpska), determines the measures, deadlines, manner of implementation of such measures, area of action, entities engaged in the conduction, sources and manner of provision and use of funds, as well as the manner of control over the implementation of measures of special control on the presence of harmful insects in the plant production on the territory of Republika Srpska in 2021. The goal of this Programme is to determine attendance, that is absences, as well as the seasonal population dynamics of the following harmful insects: Asian fruit flies Drosophila suzukii Matsumura, the brown marble bedbug of Halyomorpha halys Stal, North American cherry fly Rhagoletis cingulate Loew and Asian hornet Vespa velutina Lepeletier in production plantations of host plants. Primary hosts of the Asian hornet Vespa Lepeletier's curds are: pear, apple, peach and grapevine. Primary hosts of the North American cherry Rhagoletis cingulata Loew flies are cherries (Prunus avium L.) and cherries (Prunus cerasus L.).