Alarm for Brandenburg: Rait glass-wing culinary threats harvested!

Alarm for Brandenburg: Rait glass-wing culinary threats harvested!

in Brandenburg the Märkisch-Oderland district four years ago. On June 17, 2023, it was released to combat after numerous copies were caught in observation traps. The harvests of sugar beet and potatoes are particularly affected, which were severely impaired in other federal states such as Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate in 2023 and 2024.

The reed glass wi cigade, which occurred mainly in reed areas and has been on the red list of endangered species since 2016, is still a serious threat to agriculture. Around 10,700 hectares of potatoes and 6,100 hectares of sugar beet are grown in Brandenburg, whereby Märkisch-Oderland is an important production location for sugar beet.

dangerous transmitter of diseases

The zicade is not only a pest, it also transmits two significant bacteria: candidate phytoplasma solani and candidatus arsenophonus phytopathogenicus . These plant diseases lead to recognizable symptoms, such as rubber -like, weak potatoes or reduced sugar content in sugar beet. The cicade feeds on the plant juice and is therefore directly responsible for the quality and quantity of the harvest. This fact gives its effects on agriculture a particularly worrying weight.

The bacteria that the cicade transfers are responsible for the devastating harvest damage that fears many farmers. Farmers can use commercially available insecticides such as Danjiri and Moscow SG in affected areas to counter the problem. However, the thesis that a complete wasteland of the affected fields could help because the larvae starve to resist the farmers. Finally, black wasting could dry out the fields and damage the soil structure.

an alarming phenomenon

"The cicade could even be seen as potato beetles in the future", a agricultural expert describes the real danger that comes from this kind. After all, cicada infections in the past have already led to a collapse of sugar beet cultivation in regions such as Burgundy in the 1990s. The Scientific and Agrarwirtschaft institute therefore urgently demands additional measures to contain the invasive way.

Invasive types, such as the reed glass weling cinge, have an impact on agriculture, but also on domestic biodiversity. Climate change and increasing globalization favor the spread of such species, which then bring the ecosystem out of balance. The damage that causes invasive species has been more than 8 billion euros in German agriculture alone since 1960.

The situation requires quick action, because with the increase in invasive species, the agricultural future is also at stake. It looks like we are far from reaching this challenge.