Bark beetle
The bark beetle (Sinoxylon perforans and S. sexdentatum) is a xylophagous beetle widespread throughout the country, with an average size of between 4 and 7 mm. The larvae and adult, equipped with chewing apparatus, live inside the plant by digging circular and longitudinal tunnels in the wood, causing mechanical damage to shoots, trunks and stumps. These tunnels become an easy entry route for fungal pathogens and other disease agents. Feeding galleries dug by the adults can cause vegetation decay.
In some cases, in training systems that use the shoots as fruiting heads, such as sylvoz and inverted, this can also cause the shoots themselves to break under the weight of the clusters, with inevitable consequences for grape ripening and production. The bark beetle produces one generation per year, over-wintering as an adult inside cells dug into the shoots, or in other host plants adjacent to the vines, also using dead or decaying wood.
The natural fertiliser BioAksxter® by means of a soil remedial action enables the rebalancing of the microbial fauna and the reprogramming of crops through the strengthening of the self-defences of plants with the greatest potential to counter pathogen attack.
Even in the environmental context, when major disruptions occur, such as parasite attacks and other pathological adversities, BioAksxter® exerts a progressive action of reconstituting the balance of the agroecosystem.
