Mari Batsankalashvili

Agricultural University of Georgia · Department of Entomology

Surveys of the scale insect fauna of East Georgia were carried out in vegetation season (from March to November) during the years 2017 and 2018. A total of fifty-five apple orchards were studied in Kartli and Kakheti regions; 7 of them in Kakheti region and 48 in Shida Kartli region (Gori, Kareli). In Shida Kartli, most apple orchards had been spra...

The Scale Insects, infraorder Coccomorpha (Hemiptera: Sternorryncha) include many agricultural pests. The latest check list of scale insects of Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia) was published in 2008, but it contained species mostly from the city of Tbilisi. In this study an updated check list of scale insects of Sakartvelo with 242 species is prese...

Two genera, Coelopencyrtus Timberlake, 1919 and Mayrencyrtus Hincks, 1944, are reported here for the first time from Transcaucasia. Fourteen new records of encyrtid species from Georgia are reported. Except for 4 species (Bothriothorax aralius (Walker, 1837); B. clavicornis (Dalman, 1820); B. trichops Thomson, 1876; and Cheiloneurus submuticus Thom...

Biodiversity of insects has hugerole in ecosystem functioning. They participate in such an important processes as pollination, soilformation, pestcontrol and etc. It's known that productivity of apple depends on pollination service and most important in pollination are hymenopterans. So our aim was to study the diversity of apple orchards in inner...