The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), an invasive species for many countries, is one of the most dangerous pests of ornamental palms in urban landscapes.
The red palm weevil (RPW) is a key pest of horticultural and ornamental palm species in Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean region, currently dispersing in Mediterranean European countries, endangering the landscape.
This, in turn, has led to the neglect of regular pruning of palm, which has resulted in the increase of danger of fire in palm gardens, as well as the infestation by the red palm weevil threatening the life of the palm.
We compared historic and current abundances of seed weevils (Protapion spp). in red clover fields grown for seed in southernmost Sweden using data from 60 fields 1935 1937 and 53 fields 2008 2011 respectively.
Previously, we investigated the insecticidal activity of extracts from leaves of L. camara against the storage pests, namely, rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae L. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) rust red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum Herbst.
Weevils placed at the base of nontarget plants (marked with red fluorescent dust) rapidly colonized mile-a-minute weed.
Cotton is attacked by several hundred species of insects, including such harmful species as the boll weevil, pink bollworm, cotton leafworm, cotton fleahopper, cotton aphid, rapid plant bug, conchuela, southern green stinkbug, spider mites (red spiders), grasshoppers, thrips, and tarnished plant bugs.
This month watch out for flea beetle and vine weevil.
