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The Department of Parks and Gardens of the City of Jumilla has initiated a reinforcement in fighting the plague of red palm weevil, through the technique endotherapy applied to the affected palm trees in the gardens of the resort, a strategy initiated after the detection of new specimens affected by this pest, as a result of spread from diseased palm trees on private property or abandoned.

As explained Councilman Parks and Gardens, Juan Manuel Abellán, "palm gardens and public spaces have regular monitoring and appropriate treatment, the problem comes when the owners of plots with specimens affected by the red palm weevil, not you give proper treatment, thus facilitating its spread to the rest of ejemplare of the town ".

In this regard, the council recalled that "Jumilla has an ordinance Greenbelt and Woodland Viario in which a specific section on the palms protection is established, including private".

In this articulated the requirement for collaboration with citizen inventory palms stable, establishing a series of obligations and recommendations holders on transplantation, logging, planting, and pruning of palms, remembering that the latter work is prohibited since March to November.

The solution employed by the municipal officers in the palms affected public gardens, has been endotherapy, which involves injecting the product directly into the palm, one that spraying, less expensive and more reliable economic system.

The major sources of infection of the municipality are in private areas.

The insects bore into the wood to the center of the palm and exhaust all its nutrients.

However, these insects can fly quite a distance, reaching healthy copies of the rest of the municipality.

Symptoms appear within three to four months of the entry into action of insects, so it is now that the effect of high temperatures in September and October, is seen when playing the weevil is much more active.

The chances of curing a palm weevil affected by always depend on when the disease is detected.

The area councilor, Juan Manuel Abellán, has asked responsibility to landowners with plantations of palm trees, to review the status of these individuals and act if it detects any symptoms peak in order to keep it from spreading by additional copies of the town.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla