Buckwheat - one of the most important of the field rotation crop, attracting and keeping a
large number of insects. Entomocenosis of a buckwheat field consists of more than 170
species of insects pollinators, phytophags, entomophags. The dominant species are
pollinators; there are about 90 species of them. They feed on nectar, pick up it and make
pollination possible. Bee honey, wild bees, bumblebees, wasps, other hymenopterans,
dipterous, beetles are widely spread. All of them are polytrophs - they visit many species of
flowering plants, including buckwheat. Insects-phytophagous is the second largest group;
about 50 species feed on seeds, roots, shoots and vegetating plants until the crop
harvesting. The third group of insects, whose imagos feed on flowers and larvae (and
sometimes imago) hymnical or parasitize on phytophags of buckwheat and on other crop
rotation fields or on neighboring natural biotic communities: Coccinellidae, Chrisopidae,
Syrphidae, Tachinidae, Phasiae, parasitic hymeonopterans. These insects need not only
buckwheat plants, but also its phytophags that are food for their larvae. Entomophags is a
group which includes about 30 species. The fifth group of insects is real predators - includes
Carabidae and Staphylinidae mainly. The sixth group is insects, occasional visitors of
buckwheat agrobiocenosis. Relations between insects, living in the buckwheat field, with
other biocenosis components, are generally trophic (direct and indirect): «plants - insects
phytophags»; «plants - insects phytophags - entomophags», «insects «neutrals» -
entomophags»; and phoryc (zoochory): plants - insects pollinators. Topical communications
appear under the influence of the plant defining living conditions of phytophags and
entomophags (buckwheat crops as a habitat of insects with granting possibility of a shelter, a
meeting of genders, reproduction and habitation of different stages of evolution).
doi: 10.15217/279699