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2007 objectives
 

- Following the evolution of the pest starting with the period of installing in the country until in the present.
- Establishing the areas where the pest was seen until the present and of the not-infested areas.
- Identification of the ecological factors from the species’ country of origin.
- Identification of the ecological factors from the infested and not-infested areas by the harmer, located in our country.
- Establishing the control points and following the moving direction, of the moving speed, using comparative studies.
- Elaboration of some spreading models, in accordance with the ecological factors.
- Instruction and training of the social category involved.

Installing the pheromonal and colored traps, often used in the supervision activities (original)

Capturing the adults using pheromonal traps (left) and colored (right) (original)

Detection of the adults by macroscopic visualization: attack at the level of the foliar limb (left); presence of the adults on leaves in the period of copulation (right) (original)

Detection of the adults by macroscopic visualization: attack to the corn cob (left); presence of the adults on the paniculate consuming pollen (right) (original)

Daily dynamics of the harmful Diabrotica virgifera virgifera Le Conte

Bibliographic observations
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