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The palm had received preventive treatment 20 days before and during the last two years
The Department of Environment of the City of Caravaca de la Cruz is taking all precautionary measures at its disposal to prevent the spread of the plague of "Red Weevil" that affects several species of palm tree.
"Given the explanations required by the PSOE and allegations of inaction on the part of the Department that address, I recall once again the measures we have been taking," stressed the mayor Maria Antonia Alvarez Jorquera.
In the past two years has been making a preventive treatment (there are no curative) quarterly public palms phases with extra palm trees considered particularly vulnerable by technical treatment.
Through the "Ecojardín" service Apcom association scrupulously applied the recommended pesticide treatments.
On October 31, 2012, the Department of Environment confirmed the appearance of the first palm affected by this plague, located in a private garden.
Immediately, a meeting between local technicians and technical sevice of Plant Health of the Autonomous Community to enable the protocol performance was held.
Also, after the first case detected, an edict that all owners of palms was reported in private grounds of the measures to be taken to prevent the spread was issued.
On the Republican side, the obligation of the owners to communicate their existence to a census by completing a form available from the General Register of the City or the City Council website notifying.
The side also picked prohibition to leave prunings on public roads and in places not intended for it.
Specimens with infection should be destroyed following the protocol for the region.
Last Saturday morning the local police notified the municipal service Gardening potential risk posed by the existence of a palm tree in apparent disrepair in walk the Slide.
After a thorough visual inspection, it was found that the upper part of the specimen was heavily damaged by the plague "Red Weevil" pose a risk to public safety, so we proceeded immediately to the disposal by the established procedure.
This palm has been receiving treatment for the past two years based preventive plant protection products, in fact the last treatment was done three weeks ago, confirming that existing treatments are not fully effective.
Currently, the city has over a thousand palm trees surveyed, of which only twenty are publicly owned and the rest are on private land.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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