10 o’clock in the morning. On the Tverskoy Boulevard, in front of the Moscow art theatre, nearly 100-year-old oak busybodies three officers in jackets with an inscription “mosekomonitoring”. One, moving away a couple of meters, calculate using the altimeter location low branches, other tape measures crown, the third examines the state of the cortex. “There are morozovoy, it should be noted, says Ulyana Medovikov analyst HPBW “mosekomonitoring”. And dry branches is not visible, the wound is old.” She writes in a thick sheet settings of oak and moves to a neighboring ash-tree. So one by one the experts will pass all the 158 trees and 14 shrubs in this area.
And they need to check 130 sites in all districts of the city, which grow 11 thousand trees of 48 species and over 15 thousand bushes. In addition to size, presence of diseases and pests, evaluate decorative, new and dry branches, the slope of the barrel – if it exceeds 45%, the tree is cut down. Assess the condition on a scale: 1 – good, 2 – satisfactory and 3 unsatisfactory.
Noting the brightness of the leaves of the ash on Tverskoy Boulevard, the experts noticed on the bark of small holes. They left the emerald borer. – a small iridescent sheen insect. It lays under the bark and the larvae eat the tree from the inside, destroying the capital’s population of ash trees. “In Moscow a large percentage of ash trees affected by the infestation, says “RG” the Deputy chief is information-analytical Department HPBW “mosekomonitoring” Alena Gavrilenko. – Behind the tree looked, but it didn’t help. It remains a breeding ground for pests, it or a treat, or hack. To cut down trees, no one will. And one of the universities ends the test of the new care of trees. They will do injections of a special chemical composition. As soon as you prove the effectiveness of “grafting”, we will begin to apply it everywhere, including here.”
