"The pest risk analysis conducted for the territory of the Russian Federation, shows that the potential area of brown marble bug coincides with the major regions growing fruit and vegetable crops and grapes in the Krasnodar and Stavropol edges, the Rostov region and the Republic of Dagestan", — the document says.

"The economic damage from introduction of this species into the territory of the Russian Federation can be huge — from 1.7 billion to 11.4 billion rubles per year", — stated in the report.

Brown marble bug is an agricultural pest. Insect damage almost all the fruit, vegetables and melons, berries and grapes. Marble bedbugs spread in the countries of South-East Asia, where it occurs, and also in the USA and Europe. 2015 brown marble bug actively began to increase their numbers in Georgia and Abkhazia.