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Spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii) – fruit pest

Tatjana Masten Milek ; HCPHS-Zavod za zaštitu bilja
Mladen Šimala ; HCPHS-Zavod za zaštitu bilja
Mario Bjeliš ; HCPHS-Zavod za zaštitu bilja

Abstract

Spotted Wing Drosophila (SWD) (Drosophila suzukii) is a pest of Asian origin. It is recently introduced into Europe. D. suzukii is one of the most invasive pests on fruit and grapes. At the same time it is introduced to North America and has similar consequences. In Croatia, we had registered D. suzukii for the first time in late 2010 in Istria on raspberries, peaches and grapevines (Seljak et al., 2011, Masten Milek et al., 2011a, Masten Milek et al., 2011b). It is likely that D. suzukii has been present in Croatia for the long time, but it was not noticed, primarily because of misidentification with species D. melanogaster or D. simulans . According to Helsen (2015), D.suzukii is the first new pest in fruit growing in the last hundred years. Pathway of spreading D. suzuki are plants for planting and fruits of host plants. Today, about 3000 species of the genus Drosophila in known worldwide. D. suzukii is one of two of its species, which has the status of pests (Draves, et al., 2009).

Keywords

Drosophila suzukii; Spotted Wing Drosophila; fruit pest; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

169477

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/169477

Publication date:

1.9.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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