Ussuri pitted in Moscow

Members of the laboratory of Forest Protection and Quarantine of invasive organisms VNIILM FBI conducted a special survey of the experimental forest garden Timirjazevskoj selhozakademii. For the first time on the territory of Moscow found fir, dead and infested dangerous invasive organism - Ussuri bark or Ussuri polygraph Polygraphus proximus. In the stands of the study area revealed a total of six fir trees, one of whom died of the pest, and all other inhabited them. In the experimental procedure performed insectofungicides injection of trees in order to prevent the death of the trees.

Detection of harmful organisms suggests that the pest is settled in the city and is able to destroy fir, even growing in mixed stands.

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