Pest control, a bug bark beetle, in Almaty

One of the most dangerous problems for trees - insects wreckers of the wood. In general, and a tree in particular, different bodies - a root, a stalk (trunk), a leaf, etc. have a plant. Each of bodies is damaged by the insects wreckers. Those which damage trunks of trees are called stem wreckers or ksilofaga.

Many types of stem wreckers constitute danger of death to trees. For example, 150-200 bark beetles printers (Ips typographus) kill an adult fir-tree of all in a month.
What the bug bark beetle is dangerous by

Bugs bark beetles damage the vital fabrics of a tree, wood on which water, and a bass where nutrients from top to down move is transported from below up. The effect can be compared to as though in a human body the blood movement therefore stopped if bugs bark beetles occupied all circle of a trunk, death of a tree - a question of 1-2 weeks.

However, even if the quantity of bugs bark beetles is insufficient to kill a tree, they can infect it with a mushroom infection which they often have. Quite so the known Dutch illness of elms which ruined vyazovy plantings of Europe on huge squares and raging in North America extends now, for example.

And it is even yet not all harm done by stem wreckers. Some of them, for example, very numerous in Moscow area big pine luboyed (Blastophagus piniperda L), on an adult phase, except trunk fabrics, eats also young escapes. It weakens even rather healthy tree, and after easing luboyed occupies already him a trunk.