From 102 000 surveyed identified at least 1 instance of larvae per hectare, reported in the management Department. Most of the egg pod of the pest discovered in Babayurt, Cisarska, Nogai and Tarumovsky areas.

To prevent spread of the pest in spring and summer, the experts will soon handle more than 30 thousand ha. in these and about the same in the surrounding areas. Also they make a map of the territory with the total area affected, the exact number of instances and their density.

The Ministry recalled that in the first place the survey is conducted on plots with fallow land and wild spaces, and areas where previously recorded the highest number of pests.