Rare and serious insect disaster in Inner Mongolia (8.3)

OA show ('918 '); in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, there has been a rare major insect disaster in the past 20 years, involving 10 league cities Up to the beginning of July, the area of insect disaster has reached more than 60 million mu, accounting for 78% of the total sown area in the region, of which 1125000 mu of crops have been completely harvested, causing significant economic losses to agricultural production in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region This pest disaster has the characteristics of early occurrence, simultaneous damage of four pests, such as locusts, and high pest density At present, the insect disaster is still spreading The most serious areas are Tongliao, Chifeng, Wulanchabu League, Xilinguole League and so on The density of locusts in some areas of Chifeng City is more than 200 per square meter, and the density of armyworm in Tongliao City is more than 400 per square meter According to Gao Gali, the head of plant protection and plant inspection station in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Liu Jiaxiang, a technician, the main reason for such a serious pest disaster is the continuous drought and warm weather last winter, which resulted in a high number of pests overwintering Liu Jiaxiang told reporters: "in July and August, pests are still in the peak period of damage, especially locusts, with the increase of insect age, the damage will be more and more big In addition, if this year's prevention and control work is not done well, more insect sources will be left behind, which will leave a hidden danger to the occurrence of insect pests in the next year " At present, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is organizing human, material and financial resources to make every effort to prevent and exterminate pests and try to minimize the losses caused by pests China feed industry information network jVH (author:)