PEST RISK ANALYSIS IN COMSTOCK MEALYBUG (PSEUDOCOCCUS COMSTOCKI) IN POMEGRANATE AND DATES

Abstract

Dangerous pest is widespread in Uzbekistan. The most dangerous of these are coccidia. They damage many plants. Damages pomegranate, date, unabi, apple, pear, plum, quince, peach, almond, hawthorn, pine, poplar and other orchards and ornamental trees. In Uzbekistan, comstock worms reproduce three times a year, and partly for the fourth time. But with the fall of the cold, the fourth generation perishes. In pomegranate and palm crops, different levels of infestation were observed in different varieties by comstock worms. In pomegranate, 53.8% of Ok dona, 49.5% of Kizil anor, 39.1% of Kozoki anor and 22.8% of Achchik dona were damaged. 38.3% of Zenju-maru, 25.9% Tamopan and 20.1% Xiakume dates were damaged.