Russia: Torimus was brought from Italy to Sochi to fight chestnut nut-making

In the forests of Sochi, a landing party from Italy has landed, which will fight insect pests, OTR reports. As an experiment, 6,000 torimus were brought here. This insect destroys the chestnut walnut. She appeared in Sochi during the Olympics, when the city was landscaped, and in five years it has settled in almost all the forestries of the national park. Now destroys chestnuts. The nutcracker sucks the sap out of their flowers and renders the tree sterile. If nothing is done, the chestnuts will die in five years. They are released into the greenhouse where the seedlings grow. In the fall, it will already be possible to evaluate how the thorimus will cope with the pest. Alina Strizhak, employee of the Sochi National Park: “This is a fly, when it is released, it will lay its larvae in the galas, which are already formed on the edible chestnut tree and lay the larvae exactly where the chestnut nutcracker lives in these galas”. Pavel Khotsenko, director of the Sochi national park: ...