The main danger in this is brown marble bug, which can cause damage measured in the hundreds of millions of rubles.

This pest is extremely tenacious, able to fly and to actively proliferate, said during a public hearing on the results of the work of the Rosselkhoznadzor in 2017, Deputy Minister Yulia Shvabauskene.

Potential damage to domestic agriculture is estimated at about two billion rubles. However, there is a risk that may affect the export potential of the country, and then the amount of damage can increase dramatically.

As the experts of the controlling Agency, the first isolated species not previously found in Russia the same insect was revealed at the end of the summer of 2014 in Sochi. While brown marble bug (Holyomorpha halys Stal.) already in 2015-2016 to cause significant damage to plantings of citrus, feijoas, persimmons, tomatoes and other crops.