New data on the biology and harmfulness of the wood butterfly (cossus cossus linneaus, 1758)

The wooden butterfly is a representative of Cossidae, the order of Lepidotera insects. This pest is a night butterfly, which is mainly widespread in Western Europe, South Africa, Iran, Japan and Central Asia, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. In particular, wood butterflies damage pears, apples, plums, quinces, apricots, cherries, walnuts, dates, ornamental trees such as poplar, willow, ash, birch, oak, maple and Ulmus. It is important to carry out control measures against them in the most vulnerable period of life cycle of the pest.