Red Palm Weevil Control for Date Palm Trees

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• Red Palm Weevil Videos

   

• Year 2009

  I wish all visitors and contributors to my blog a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2009. The past year was eventful in the sense, that there were alarm bell ringing about climate change in various forums worldwide and most of the agencies have started focusing on this impending peril.  Of course it is

• Biotechnology

  Many advances have been made in the frontier areas of biotechnology, tissue culture, genetic evaluation, genomics of plants and insects.  Some mind boggling technologies which were only hypothetical have been transformed into reality in the form of GM crops.  Along with positives, there are severa

• Rating damage intensity

  Coconut palm damage percentage: Generally the extension agencies record the number of infestions by the pest to understan its severity in a given location, region, province etc.  This will help in formulation extension programs to suit the local needs.   Date palm damage percentage: Here al

• New Report of Pest from Curacao

  A very interesting story is developing on the first report of Red Palm Weevil from Willemstad, Curacao, Caribbean.  This report of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus from Curacao has generated quite a bit of discussion and controversy.  Hugh has commented and questioned the veracity of the R. ferrugineus s

• Pheromone Trapping

    Attract and Kill Taking advantage of the adult weevils attraction to the fermenting liquids especially sap from the palm, a poisonous broth was used to bait and kill the weevils the past.  This techniques was continuously refined and sugarcane baited traps were successfully used for collection

• Arabic & other languages

  Now the blog is available with a language translator.  This will help non-English visitors especially Arabic speaking people to have a quick translation and this will help the people in the Gulf countries, Middle East and also North African countries besides Spain and Portugal.  I wish this blog