More commonly known as "Red Palm Weevil." Is a curculionide beetle, a native of 'Asia ,
deadly parasite of many species of palms.
Head of serious damage to crops Cocos nucifera . As a result of trade in specimens of the species infected palms reached in the eighties Arab Emirates and from there it spread to Middle East, and in almost every country in the southern basin of the Mediterranean Sea (from ' Egypt where it has been reported for the first time in 1992 ) lifts up to Spain, has since been achieved and the Corsica French Riviera ( 2006). The first case in Italy is 2004 and is due to a nurseryman of Pistoia that had imported the plants from Egypt in 2005 is reported in Sicily and then in rapid spread to the North of peninsula : Campania comes in, bringing death to hundreds of palm trees in public parks and private gardens in Lazio , he returned to Tuscany and eventually also in Liguria .
deadly parasite of many species of palms.
Head of serious damage to crops Cocos nucifera . As a result of trade in specimens of the species infected palms reached in the eighties Arab Emirates and from there it spread to Middle East, and in almost every country in the southern basin of the Mediterranean Sea (from ' Egypt where it has been reported for the first time in 1992 ) lifts up to Spain, has since been achieved and the Corsica French Riviera ( 2006). The first case in Italy is 2004 and is due to a nurseryman of Pistoia that had imported the plants from Egypt in 2005 is reported in Sicily and then in rapid spread to the North of peninsula : Campania comes in, bringing death to hundreds of palm trees in public parks and private gardens in Lazio , he returned to Tuscany and eventually also in Liguria .
The cause of the spread is mainly trade in specimens of infested palm dall'insetto and not recognized as such.
In particular, these specimens were photographed at Aci Trezza in the garden where there has begun to worry a bit '. Mainly attacked palms " Washington, but today in Sicily, not finding more healthy individuals, this is attacking coleottoro well as other species of palms" Cocos nucifera ".
Ps: I photographed the specimens are dead.
