The College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences discusses a PhD thesis on the embroidered bug.

The College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Baghdad, discussed a PhD thesis tagged (Evaluating the efficiency of some agricultural and chemical methods in controlling the insect bug embroidered on some fruit trees), by the student Mustafa Muhammad Abd al-Ridha from the Department of Plant Protection. The researcher showed that the embroidered bug is an important pest that affects apple trees in Iraq, and it is an important economic insect that causes damage to apple leaves, so it is one of the insects that attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. The researcher concluded that there is a discrepancy in the studied apple cultivars in their susceptibility to infection by the reticulata insect as a result of their different morphological and biochemical characteristics, in addition to that the effect of the nutritional content of the cultivars was clear on the embroidered reticulum insect, and this could explain the decline in infection in the Israeli variety. The thesis recommended paying attention to cleaning apple orchards and removing weeds and fallen leaves during the fall season to spend the winter under them with continuous monitoring of the orchard, especially during April to control them, as well as conducting more studies related to natural enemies of the insect and its impact on the distribution and spread of the insect and the need to guide farmers to adhere to a period before harvesting when using pesticides, especially since apples are among the fruits that the consumer eats directly.

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