This research carried out in the orchards of the Stamo area province of Lattakia citrus
during the years 2014-2015, and the results of the study showed that the insect black
cortical one generation per year with a second partial generation during t
he summer. Under
the insect overwintering nymph stage in the second age is the most able to withstand the
low-temperature phase in the winter. Mermaid back age-second activity in the beginning of
spring to complete their life cycle where the female young appear in early April on each of
the branches and leaves, to show adult females with the beginning of the month of May
and starts the eggs to hatch in the middle of this month and will continue until the month of
July. The study found that the nymph stage second phase age is the most common during
the season at each of the branches and leaves. Observed the death of large numbers of the
insect in the phasic nymph third age and female fledgling stage, which evolved during the
same season, as the study of the distribution and the spread of the different phases of the
insect on the plant parts showed that the branches were more injury than securities with
higher than moral in the population density of the presence of eccentric nymph and adult
stages the branches compared with the leaves.
