SOUTH AMERICAN TOMATO MOTH IS A DANGEROUS QUARANTINE PEST OF SOLANACEOUS CULTURES
In recent years, due to the significant growth in the volume of both international trade and domestic transportation, the risk of penetration of new species of quarantine organisms has increased. The aim of the research is to conduct phytosanitary monitoring of a particularly dangerous quarantine pest of South American tomato moth (Tuta absoluta Meyrick). Phytosanitary monitoring of greenhouses in Dagestan was carried out and a traditional complex of harmful organisms was identified, including a particularly dangerous quarantine pest, the South American tomato mining moth (Tuta absoluta Meyrick). Its biology and morphology, harmfulness, preventive quarantine measures are described, selection of effective insecticides is carried out and optimum norms of the consumption of new insecticides are calculated. The biological efficiency of the new in-secticide Spintor 240, SC (240 g/l) was determined.