Palm weevil treatment involves a combination of control methods including removal of infected wood, applying insecticides, and trapping the adults. The devastating effect of this invasive species is particularly alarming in san diego county. Ferrugineus (olivier 1790), and reveal the global extent of both. ” Molecular-genetics of pest palm weevil populations confirm rhynchophorus vulneratus (panzer 1798) as a valid species distinct from r. “the lesser of two weevils : · the female lays eggs in the palm ’s crown where the larvae subsequently feed on the trees apical meristem or palm heart, leading to almost certain decline and death of the tree.
