Plant quarantine alarm: as much as 20 new alien insect pest species including <i>Drosophila suzukii</i> appeared in the Caucasus in the last seven years
Journal: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Year: 2018

Abstract In 2011-2017 an unusually high number of invasive pests new to European Russia were detected for the first time in Sochi on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. We present the first reports of two pests new for the Caucasus and European Russia found in 2017: Drosophila suzukii (a pest of fruit, included to EPPO A2 list) and Otiorhynchus armadillo (a pest of agricultural and ornamental plants). Other recently established insects: a polyphagous pest Halyomorpha halys (first record in 2014