The invention discloses a standard survey method for pests in agriculture and forestry. A transparent nonrigid plastic film with smooth surface is laid on a blue, yellow or red rigid plastic board with grids to form an insect survey board; during field survey of fruit trees or agriculture and forestry plants, plant samples are extracted at random according to the routine technical requirements, the plant samples are surveyed on the east side, the south side, the west side and the north side, a branch is selected in any side, the insect survey boards are placed below the branches of the plant samples, then the branches are hit 3-5 times to enable the pests to fall into the insect survey boards, the grids of the insect survey boards are utilized to count or/and bend the nonrigid plastic films to pour the insects into a collection bottle so as to directly collect live specimens, and the live specimens are used for classification and determination or establishment of experimental population. The standard survey method can be quickly, conveniently and easily operated, overcomes the defect that the data accuracy is influenced by individual result differences caused by manual naked eye observation and different investigators in traditional pest monitoring survey, can be applied to field survey of fruit trees, vegetables and garden plants, and has significance on pest monitoring and pest forecasting and anticipation.