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I really don’t want to be having to talk about the dreaded weevil again but unfortunately I am not seeing much activity regarding palm protection while I am driving around the area. So just to state for the record even though I am not writing about it, the threat is greater than ever and by whatever means and whoever you use PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE get your palm trees treated.
I am still predicting that this will be the worst year for palm deaths and it will simply boil down to two things, people who do treat their palms and people who don’t. The threat from the weevil is the most prominent now than ever before. Even if you think your palm is looking fine at the moment please still have it treated as they are almost an invisible threat and you will not realise the damage that is possibly happening and this is the main growing period for the larvae that actually do the damage to the palms. They will be starting to reach maturity toward the end of the summer and this is when you will see the massive destruction that they will have caused this year. As well as treating palms I strongly advise getting a trap which you can set up, put them on the opposite corner of your plot, a roof terrace, or even a friendly neighbour who doesn’t have a palm in their garden. I have had multiples of people state ‘but are you attracting them into your garden’ to which the simple answer is yes, but providing you have treated your palms then this will not be a problem. The other thing is to have the traps far enough away from your palm to attract them away from your treated palms as it offers them something they believe to be better. We are also encouraging everyone who buys a trap either from us, or somewhere else, to visit our web site and join our new forum where you can log your collection rates of the weevil as we are very interested in building up a visual count of where they are very active. We will then be able to regularly collate the information and put it up on our website to show danger hot spots. We are still on-going in our search for ever evolving treatments to make sure our clients have up to date information and chemicals to deal with the weevil and protect their palm trees.
I would also now like to point out that even if you do not want to keep your palm that has been infected that you will still need to treat your palm tree. As shown in a recent newspaper article Denia town hall is now officially fining people who fail to deal with the problem and I would like to think that many other municipalities will not be far behind as people who fail to deal with this problem are only aiding the weevil in its conquest.
On a slightly different note, but along the same lines of protecting your palms, I am unfortunately finding more people who are having more problems with fungal attack on their palm trees and unfortunately not realising and consequently spreading the disease to other healthy palms in their garden. If you have a palm that is unhealthy you may find that it is not the palm weevil and it is actually a fungal attack which may have been caused by prior damage to the palm from the weevil or the moth.
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