Türk Tarım ve Doğa Bilimleri Dergisi

Yazarlar: Gülay KAÇAR

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DOI:10.30910/turkjans.472164

Anahtar Kelimeler:Resseliella oleisuga,Olive,Eastern Mediterranean Region,Turkey.

Özet: Olive bark midge Resseliella oleisuga (Targioni-Tozzetti, 1887) (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) adults laid eggs in crevices in the bark of olive branch and thin trunk. The larvae develop under the bark stay to live together and fed on cambium. They cause necrosis of the bark around the oviposition site and then dried shoots and death branches. This study was conducted to determine the damage of R. oleisuga and infestation levels in olive orchards of seven town in 2008-2013. Results revealed that R. oleisuga was determined in olive orchards in all seven provinces. The average occurrence of R. oleisuga is 27% in olive orchards and it reached the highest rate with a 36% in Hatay province and least rate was 18% in Mersin province. It was followed by Kahramanmaraş with 34%, Gaziantep with 33%, Kilis with 31%, Osmaniye with 22% and Adana with 19%. The number of trees damaged varied from by 13% to 0.05%.

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