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

• 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

• Symposium in Entomological Society of America

  A symposium entitled "Invasion of Palm Ecosystems by Red Palm Weevil and its Management" has been approved by the organizers of ESA annual meetings.  The ESA annual meetings will take place from 13-16 November 2011 at Reno, Nevada, USA.  I am trying to organize about 10 invited speakers from USA,

• 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

• Symposium on Red Palm Weevil at ESA 2011, Reno, NV, USA

  A member symposium with the title "Invasion of Palm Ecosystems by Red Palm Weevil and its Management " will be organized as a part of the 59th Annual meeting of Entomological Society of America (ESA), which will be held from 13 to16 November, 2011, at the Convention Center of the city of Reno, Nev

• Training program

  Chair of Date Palm Research of King Saud University is organizing one week workshop cum trainng program on date palm cultivation and its pest management from 19 - 23 Feb 2011.  It includes a full day program on RPW management.  Last year there was a similar program in January for two weeks exclu

• Rating damage intensity

  Coconut palm damage percentage: Generally the extension agencies record the number of infestions by the pest to understan its severity in a given location, region, province etc.  This will help in formulation extension programs to suit the local needs.   Date palm damage percentage: Here al