OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIOLOGY OF THE CAMERARIA OHRIDELLA DESCHKA DIMIC SPECIES (LEAF MINING MOTH), DANGEROUS PEST OF THE CHESTNUT TREC

Abstract

The knowledge of biology of the Cameraria orhidella Deschka & Dimic species are of special importance for determining the moments and the control measures to be applied against it to prevent the attack on the chestnut trees crown.
In this paper, we bring the new contributions to the knowledge of the biology of chestnut leaf mining moth. These observations consisted in systematic registration of data on the occurrence and flying insect, oviposition, the completing larval stage, the pupa stage of developmentand, re-start the cycle to each generation, observations were conducted using pheromone traps ”atra-CAM „ type - end reading their every 3 days.