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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 isAlbum 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 DMonitoring of pest
Coconut palm monitoring: The palms in the age group of 5-20 years should be regularly surveyed for identifying any infestation. This has to be done atleast once in a month. Date palm monitoring: In date palm gardens, young palms should be checked thoroughly. Palms with offshoots on the stem shWeevil Species & Dristribution
1. Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Oliv - Asia, Africa, Europe 2. Rhynchophorus palmarum (L) - Mexico, Central and South America 3. Rhynchophorus cruentatus (F) - Florida, the coast of south-eastern USA, South Carolina to Texas 4. Rhynchophorus vulneratus PanzBiotechnology
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 severaArabic & 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 blogIntroduction
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
