About participation FEDERAL STATE-FINANCED INSTITUTION "VNIIKR" in work of the 4th International congress on a biodiversity

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at the end of November, 2017 on Malta took place the 4th International congress on a biodiversity. Experts took part in its work from the countries of the Mediterranean, United Kingdom, Bulgaria and Russian Federation.

Honourable delegates of the Congress became the President Malta Mari-Luiz Koleyro Preka and the minister of affairs of environment Kherrera José.

in parallel on several sections: Invasive types, sea Biology, Safety environment and microbiology, Entomology.

Russian Federation the chief of scientific and methodical department of entomology presented to subordinated Federal Veterinary And Phytosanitary Monitoring Service Kurbatov S. A..

the report on a Japanese bug of Popillia japonica (biology, distribution, invasive activity in the world).

Within work of the congress took place visit by experts of habitats invasive for Malta species of insects: the South American tomato moth of Tuta absoluta, seven types koktsid from Pseudococcidae family, the red palm weevil of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the man with a big mustache of Phryneta leprosa, the bark beetle of Hypocryphalus scabricollis and some others.

Short expedition allowed the expert FEDERAL STATE-FINANCED INSTITUTION "VNIIKR" to fill up entomological fund of the Center with the representative of a family of coleoptera of Faronus. At the beginning of 2018 scientific work on this species of insects will be issued.

Materials of the congress will be used by specialists of the All-Russian center of quarantine of plants in daily work, in particular when carrying out analyses of phytosanitary risk, when developing national and interstate standards, in work of Training center FEDERAL STATE-FINANCED INSTITUTION "VNIIKR".

in the Bulletin of the Entomological society of Malta magazine, 2017, vol. 9 .