Californian thrips was found in the greenhouses of a Kurgan entrepreneur. The businessman is engaged in the cultivation of flowers and seedlings.
In April 2022, the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions conducted sampling of plant products in greenhouses owned by an individual entrepreneur in Kurgan. According to the results of a study conducted in the laboratory of the Grain Quality Assessment Center, specialists identified California thrips, the press service of the department told the agency.
Back in August 2019, in these greenhouses of an entrepreneur from Kurgan, the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor established a quarantine phytosanitary regime for western (California) thrips on an area of more than 2.6 hectares. At the same time, a program was approved to localize the focus of the quarantine object and eliminate the pest population. Despite the measures taken, the pest in greenhouses has a place to be, and the established regime of restrictions by Rosselkhoznadzor has not yet been lifted. Each batch of flowers and seedlings sold by a businessman is examined and receives permission from the Rosselkhoznadzor for sale only after it is confirmed that the pest was not found in this batch or, if detected, the entire batch of plant products is disinfected, the press service of the regional department told the Ural Meridian news agency. Rosselkhoznadzor.
Western (California) flower thrips is included in the list of quarantine objects approved by the decision of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission as a species of limited distribution in the territory of the Russian Federation. Thrips is a tiny insect, no more than 2 mm in length. Larvae and adults feed on the juice of leaves and flowers of plants. Damaged leaves and flowers are covered with silvery strokes, necrotic spots of irregular or rounded shape and gradually fade. Flower thrips is a carrier of plant viral diseases. This pest is characterized by high fertility and adaptability to chemical plant protection products, the press service of the regional department of Rosselkhoznadzor specified.
Earlier, the agency talked about how the Office of the Rosselkhoznadzor in the Kurgan region stopped a batch of an imported product (bovine semen from the United States and Canada).
