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The City combat the plague of red palm weevil (30/11/2009)

Operators of municipal brigades Parks and Gardens of the Department of Infrastructure will conduct logging these days of 27 palm trees located on the main avenue and the park's public housing estates in Santa Ana, hit by the plague of red palm weevil beetle species that usually appear in autumn and attacks the plant produces a yellowing and wilting leaves.

In the last three years, about 1,000 palm trees have had to be cut in the municipality because of this insect.

For three weeks, crews now arrive at the Santa Ana Residential copies have been felling Quarries, the Station area, the Eixample, the Barrio de San Gines and La Aljorra, because of this plague that affects normally the Canary Island date palm and palmetto.

The process involves cutting copies which are then crushed, a task in which city crews are working with the Autonomous Community, in charge of control of red palm weevil pest.

In this line, the City will sign soon an agreement with the Instituto Ramon Margalef, University of Alicante to implement a preventive system of fungi, which will be implemented mainly in the palm of Heroes of Cavite.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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