The beetle capable to destroy a tree in a week, appeared in Moscow Region

To prevent things from getting worse, I suggest we detonate an atomic bomb and use it to destroy the barbel. before it's too late.

on the photo it seems to be Arhopalus rusticus

This post was edited by omar - 01.10.2009 17: 08

To prevent things from getting worse, I suggest we detonate an atomic bomb and use it to destroy the barbel. before it's too late.

It is necessary to mark: It does not harm nature, but man.

MOSCOW, September 29-RIA Novosti. More than 280 hectares of forest in the Moscow region fell into the quarantine zone because of a dangerous insect that appeared there - a barbel beetle, which is "worse than an atomic bomb", but its spread is controlled, Gennady Rezvy, deputy head of the Department of supervision in the field of internal plant quarantine of the Rosselkhoznadzor administration for Moscow and the Moscow region, told reporters on Tuesday.
"If this quarantine object (the barbel beetle) gets used to Russia, it will be worse than an atomic bomb," he said.
This beetle is dangerous not by itself, but because it carries a pine stem nematode-a dangerous worm, trees affected by it die in a period of six to 20 days, said Rezvyi.
He said that the barbel beetle is native to North America. After the pine nematode appeared in Japan, the annual damage from this disease is from one and a half to 2 million pupaars.
"Put these figures on the scale of our country, and you will imagine the amount of possible damage," said Rezvyi.
According to him, now 14 objects with a total area of 283 hectares have been identified in the Moscow region, where quarantine has been declared due to the spread of the barbel beetle. This means that the export of wood in order to avoid the spread of the disease is prohibited, the specialist explained.
"Our Research Institute of Plant Quarantine in 2008 and part of 2009 found 51 foci of forest contamination with a total area of 425 hectares," said Mikhail Yudin, Deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Department for Moscow and the Moscow region.
According to him, all the foci were declared a quarantine zone. Work on identifying infected forests is being carried out in the region systematically.
"We will check these zones again next year," Yudin added.

NIGHTMARE!!!

in theory, this refers to Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (pine wood nematode or pine wilt nematode) (PWN) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursaphelenchus_xylophilus

In Japan, it is distributed by the Japanese pine sawyer( JPS), Monochamus alternatus. (It was introduced in 1905 into Nagasaki, Kyushu. The nematode spread to Okinawa Prefecture in 1973, the Ogasawara Islands in 1974, China in 1982, Taiwan in 1985 and South Korea in1983~1988, where it has subsequently caused serious damage to pine forest. In 1999, the PWN invaded Portugal (Kiritani and Morimoto 2004; Togashi and Jikumaru 2007).

It seems that this type of barbel does not exist in Russia. I wonder who distributes it, when it was imported and what will happen...

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREVENTING THE INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF THE PINE TREE NEMATODE BURSAPHELENCHUS XYLOPHILUS ON THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
http://gov.cap.ru/home/65/aris/bd/karantin/document/143.html

In general, damage due to the PWN hardly occurs in areas where the monthly mean temperature from June to August is below 20℃. Enda and Makihara (2006) proposed another criterion: those areas where the annual mean temperature is above 11℃ with a thermal total of >1000 day-degrees above 11℃ are vulnerable to the PWD.

--- as I understand it, in Moscow the monthly average is below 20C.... So there shouldn't be a problem...

in theory, this refers to Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (pine wood nematode or pine wilt nematode) (PWN) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursaphelenchus_xylophilus

In Japan, it is distributed by the Japanese pine sawyer( JPS), Monochamus alternatus. (It was introduced in 1905 into Nagasaki, Kyushu. The nematode spread to Okinawa Prefecture in 1973, the Ogasawara Islands in 1974, China in 1982, Taiwan in 1985 and South Korea in1983~1988, where it has subsequently caused serious damage to pine forest. In 1999, the PWN invaded Portugal (Kiritani and Morimoto 2004; Togashi and Jikumaru 2007).

It seems that this type of barbel does not exist in Russia. I wonder who distributes it, when it was imported and what will happen...

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREVENTING THE INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF THE PINE TREE NEMATODE BURSAPHELENCHUS XYLOPHILUS ON THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
http://gov.cap.ru/home/65/aris/bd/karantin/document/143.html

In general, damage due to the PWN hardly occurs in areas where the monthly mean temperature from June to August is below 20℃. Enda and Makihara (2006) proposed another criterion: those areas where the annual mean temperature is above 11℃ with a thermal total of >1000 day-degrees above 11℃ are vulnerable to the PWD.

--- as I understand it, in Moscow the monthly average is below 20C.... So there shouldn't be a problem...

Well, guys, isn't that funny?

what exactly is funny about my answer???

what exactly is funny about my answer???

Yes, there is nothing funny in your answer!!! The topic itself is ridiculous.

Funny and not very professional journalists wrote, and the TOPIC of pine nematode carried by barbels is very serious and sad... This is a huge problem for forestry in Japan and other countries.

Recent dissertation. by a different view:
http://www.disszakaz.com/catalog/16196.html
(diss itself. here -- http://ftacademy.ru/site/upload/200712061433_ahmatovich.pdf)

By the way, it says: A dangerous quarantine species of phytonematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus
is absent on the territory of the Russian Federation. The study
of the phytosanitary situation in forest plantations of the European part of the Russian Federation and
surveys of transit timber materials from the Asian part
of the Russian Federation on infection with stem tree nematodes of the B.
xylophilus species group revealed the widespread presence of only B. mucronatus.

(other findings are also interesting, by the way)

In other media, this news (see the first post) was served even more bitterly. The above text is almost scientific compared to "mine"... I spent a long time thinking about which section of the forum to plug it in, but I wasn't going to Here, please read it if you're interested: http://www.utro.ru/news/2009/09/30/841969.shtml

Yes... I'm not ashamed to write like a fool at all... But a narrow-bodied zlatka is also a serious matter, by the way...

Humans destroy hundreds of trees faster, and often more willingly.

If necessary, in the forests near Moscow, they will also find something else!

I have in the garden currant zlatki every year eat in the literal sense, a couple of bushes zhazhe withered

I have in the garden currant zlatki every year eat in the literal sense, a couple of bushes even dried up

Have you tried to determine whether you have a hooligan called Agrilus ribesi or Agrilus viridis?

As I understand it, we are talking about the entire genus Monochamus...It is as a POTENTIAL carrier of stem nematodes that this genus was included in the A2 lists (limited-spread CVO-quarantine pest). It has been proven that the Bursaphelenchus xylophilus counterpart, namely Bursaphelenchus mucronatus, can successfully tolerate M. urussovi.
But something in the first message the problem is too global
I think the stick went too far
And by the way, how much harm does A. planipenis cause in the European part? And why hasn't the PRA been carried out on this type so far?