Аttacked by beetles, leaf beetles

The onset of summer was marked by a massive invasion of green areas of the city leaf beetle. Elms resemble a mesh web. Beetles, caterpillars and larvae feed sweetly leaves around the clock. Pests prefer to eat two types of elms - pinnately branched and small-leaved. These trees make up 65% of the total weight of the green fund regional center.

"Green Fund over the last 2-3 years, exposed to the mass invasion of elm leaf beetle. From the trees is only a skeleton. Most pest feeds on elm ", - said Deputy Chief Lukpan Utebaliev.


This year, the landscaping of the city has been allocated 820,000 dollars. Money invested in a good cause, can disappear without a trace.

"We have to handle the elms, trees and so little of the city" - outraged resident of Tatiana Martiyanenko.

However, the chemical treatment of trees in the city impossible. The only thing that makes the utility - spend sanitary felling trees withered. They are now getting more and more.

"Elm leaf beetle spreads grafioz - a disease dangerous to the trees. Beetle came from the east. The increase in colony pest due to the increase in temperature in the summer months ", - informed the Head of the Department of Forest Protection, Alexander Kubasov.