Abstract: Hoplocampa minuta Crist, is spread in all the areas where plum tree are being cultivated and it produces important damages, especially in the not- maintained orchards. That is why during the period 2010 -2012 there were made researches in the orchards along Bistra Valley (Glimboca), Caras Severin, in order to observe the pest s bioecology so that there can be applied preventive and curative methods against it. During the research period the adults appeared between 8th and 26th April, when there was an effective temperature sum of 47,2°C; the beginning of ponta look place between 10th and 28th April when there was an effective temperature sum of 88,6°C and the larvae appeared in the period 28th April and 18th May, when there was an effective temperature sum of 150,9 °C.

pest, Hoplocampa minuta, bioecology, plum tree

biology

Presentation: poster