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The Department of Environment has confirmed the appearance of a palm affected by the "red palm weevil", located in a private garden in the town.

Technical municipal and Plant Health Service of the Autonomous Region have held a meeting with officials from landscaping companies and nurseries in the municipality to discuss the measures to adopt and implement the action protocol marked by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water.

The City will issue a proclamation, in which owners are informed of the different species to adopt measures to prevent the spread of infection.

So, as reflected in that Bando, "those neighbors who own palms should communicate their existence for a census of all copies located on private farms of the township, filling out a form available on the General Register of the City or page City Council website (www.caravaca.org) ".

Also, the palms must be kept in a good state of plant health by implementing preventive treatments.

Similarly, the side includes a prohibition to leave pruning in public and in places not suited for it.

The infected specimens be destroyed following the protocol for the region.

Palm owners must control the appearance of certain symptoms as the decay of the central leaves, the total collapsed remains brown, as it may cause a risk to people and property by smashing the trunk.

In cases of suspected infection or advanced HIV infection, it must notify the Plant Protection Service of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, through picudopalmeras@gmail.com address, which will be provided timely advice.

The "red palm weevil" (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) is a plague that affects the palms, mainly canary date palms and Washingtonia (in that order of preference), but can attack any palmácea.

Given the virulence with which it is moving this pest in the region, it is necessary in the fight against the same population collaboration.

This pest is a beetle, a beetle-like reddish iron oxide, which flies in palm palm attracted by the smell that cuts pruning the palm trees.

Once deposited therein dozens of eggs in the leaves.

These eggs hatch and develop into a larva of about 4-6 cm long, white or bone, has no legs and inserted inside the palm, destroying tissue and causing their death if nothing is done on time.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz