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At high temperatures, the insect activity gathers pace, forcing shorten the periods between extreme preventive treatment and monitoring for symptoms
La Concejalía Environment and Cespa reinforce in summer combating picudo red the 8,000 palms municipality.
This has produced an action plan adapted to the evolution of the pest.
La Concejalía Environment is combining methods traditional insecticides with newest exist combating this plague.
This is being used by Endo insecticide treatments to combat the scourge.
This technique consists injection insecticide within itself palm, spreading sap and killing picudo when biting tissues.
It also acts as the palm is already infected and is even effective against the larvae.
Furthermore, it is implementing the placement of fixed systems in higher palm to optimize each treatment and is testing the use of organic products such as nematodes, tiny organisms that, when applied to the palm weevil kill the parasites and not damage to the plant or environment.
The Councillor for Environment, Adela Martinez-Cacho, explained that the purpose of these techniques is to win the battle against insect "but not at any price, but with minimal environmental impact."
Besides the effectiveness and cleaning is an economical solution.
The treatments needed to protect a palm cost about 50 euros per year, while the demolition of an infected copy costs around 300 euros.
"With the preventive measures and curative treatments to avoid the disposal of individuals, besides being very expensive, prevents us from keeping our plant heritage," remarked Martinez-Cache.
Red weevil is devastating in palms inflicting himself primarily on palm species Canarian abounding in area Levante.
The mild temperatures favor the spread of the pest.
The council noted that "we are making a significant effort from the City Council to protect and save the palms of the municipality. Therefore we also ask the residents of the town with palm trees in their gardens to keep them, preventing infections through periodic treatments, and avoid pruning in spring and summer as freshly cut branches attract adult red palm weevil. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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