Red Palm Weevil Control for Date Palm Trees

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• Damage

    Almost the entire damage is caused by the larvae that feed on the inner tissues of host palm near the crown or some part of the trunk region.  In coconut the damage is towards the upper portion of trunk but in date palm the damage is more at the base of the trunk.  The external symptoms produc

• Host plants

  R. ferrugineus is essentially a pest of palms, being recorded on Areca catechu, Arenga pinnata, Cocos nucifera, Borassus flabellifer, Phoenix dactylifera, Phoenix sylvestris, Phoenix canariensis, Elaeis guineensis, Calamus merillii, Caryota maxima, Caryota cumingii, Corypha gebanga, Corypha elata, L

• Introduction

    Palms around the world are ruthlessly attacked and damaged by the Red Palm Weevil.  It targets coconut, date, oil and other palms causing great economic loss to the growers.  In some countries it not only causes direct losses but also  transmits diseases as a vector of dreaded red ring dise

• 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

• 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

• Album Pics

   Eggs  Early instar larvae  Middle instar grub in partially fed sugarcane bits  Pupa (fibrous cocoon removed)  Rearing in sugarcane bits  Rearing adults (split sugarcane bits removed)  Damaged coconut palm cut to show exit hole marks  D