VEGETABLE LEAF MINER IN THE CHECHEN REPUBLIC
The article talks about penetration from the outside and spread on the territory of the Chechen Republic of a new quarantine pest of vegetable crops - tomato leaf miner flies, proposes measures to combat it. This pest was first found by us in the settlement of Gikalo in the Grozny district of the Chechen Republic on the tomato plants and cucumber in 2011. In subsequent years a considerable damage to the leaves of tomato and cucumber miner was observed. Damaged leaves, imago and larvae of the pest was recorded on the camera. In the Chechen Republic tomato leafminer overwinters in different stages in greenhouses. In the open ground moved in the spring (April). But in warm winters successfully overwinter in the open ground.