Treecare strategy to combat red palm weevil

The Syngenta Lawn & Garden division introduced its Treecare to combat red palm weevil in collaboration with the Professional Association of Flowers, plants, horticultural technology and gardening Valencia (ASFPLANT) strategy in Valencia. Syngenta Lawn & Garden proposes a model for this pest management based on the principles of Integrated Management, which is based on the use of the active ingredient Emamectin via endoterapia applied by specialized companies. Numerous studies support the effectiveness and persistence of this powerful tool.

The Feria de Valencia hosted this presentation attended by more than 50 technicians of gardening in the Community, given the concern for the Red Palm Weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus), a very harmful pest and is endemic throughout Spain and Southern Europe. The larva of the red palm weevil excavates a gallery in the crown, feeding on its internal tissues. The damage causes the crown crash, which involves the death of the tree.

The extremely serious damage caused by the red palm weevil has led governments and the European Union to declare a plague notifiable. Since 2007 they have been cleared and destroyed tens of thousands of palm trees. Both individuals and municipalities require the adoption of appropriate control measures, but nevertheless the contaminated area has continued to spread. The red palm weevil has invaded all areas of autonomous communities of Spain bathed by the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands.

Treecare, a new option to protect our palms

But what it is and how an insecticide is applied via endoterapia. The endoterapia is a therapeutic method of phytosanitary treatments woodland involves injecting the plant protection product and / or fertilizer directly into the vascular system of the plant. This technique is used without problems and very effectively for decades against various pests of oil palm and coconut, including the red palm weevil.

Treecare The proposal is based on the principles of Integrated Pest Management and relies on the application of the product by specialized companies and formed by Syngenta. The companies undertake to advice and monitoring of treated and treatment is only done once a year palms.

Syngenta has since May 2016 with the provisional authorization for Valencia for the use of specific formulated to endoterapia by microinjection. It has also developed an application machine endoterapia, closed system, introducing the product in the palm Stipe by a dispensing gun, low pressure.

Source: Syngenta