DANGEROUS PESTS OF FRUIT PLANTATIONS. BLACKZLATKA (Capnodis tenebrionis L.)
In recent years, the number of dangerous pests of fruit crops, including such harmful as black zlatka, has increased. Damage zlatka trees in the garden and seedlings in the nursery often lead to their death. The most vulnerable to zlatka (Capnodis tenebrionis L.) are stone cultures. For three years, in the experimental production laboratory of fruit crops of the lower Volga research Institute of agriculture by route surveys, as well as monitoring of fruit plantations, in the period from budding to termination of vegetation, with an interval of 4-5 days, the study of the distribution and number of pests was carried out. As a result, it was found that the greatest damage, in the conditions of the Volgograd region, zlatka causes fruit plantations during the ripening period of stone fruit crops (June-July). The most effective way to combat this pest is the treatment of systemic insecticides in the period from the beginning of fruit formation to the end of fruit ripening, and in the nursery - until the end of the growth of shoots.