Red Palm Weevil Control for Date Palm Trees

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• 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

• Tail piece

  Before I conclude, the management of red palm weevil is possible only with the cooperation of growers, farmers, governemental departments, dedicated researchers, policy makers and research organizations.  Today the world we live in is like a global village.  If somewhere some new pest or emerging

• 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

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• 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

• Curative methods

  Once the damage is identified based on symptoms, it is important to take up plant protection measures at the earliest.  Usually the damaged tissue is removed and a suitable pesticide is applied to the damaged part.  The part of damaged stem is drilled with a few holes and an effective chemical in