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Today, 19 August 2022, the implementation period of the project 2SOFT/1.2/47 Team up for healthy fish in aquaculture systems of the Prut river basin – TeamUp HealthyFish, funded by the European Union within the Joint Operational Program Romania-Republic of Moldova 2014-2020, has ended. The project has been carried out by the Institute of Zoology in partnership with the Ion Ionescu de la Brad University of Life Sciences from Iași during 21 months, starting in November 2020, and has had a total budget of around 198 thousand euro. The project aimed to improve the health status of cultured fish...

The brochure „Ladybugs (Insecta: Coccinelidae) from the Republic of Moldova”, authors – Bușmachiu Galina, Bacal Svetlana, Burduja Daniela, Calestru Livia and Belova Victoria, includes the study of the diversity of ladybug species in the country – the best-known group of coleopterous insects, preferred and loved by children. For the first time for the Republic of Moldova, there were described 48 species of ladybugs, which belong to 28 genera and 7 tribes and were found in forests, parks, gardens and agrocenoses. As some of them are rare and little-studied species, this work can be used as a...

The work „Methodological guide for fish farmers” is a contribution to the knowledge in the field of aquaculture, aiming at, particularly, ensuring the health of fish raised in ponds in the Prut River basin through sustainable practices of pond management. The guide was developed within the cross-border project 2 SOFT 1.2./47 „Team up for healthy fish in aquaculture systems of the Prut river basin” - TeamUp HealthyFish and recommended for editing by the Scientific Council of the Institute of Zoology. The authors of the guide update the methods of rapid diagnosis of cyprinid diseases, suggesting...