Attract & Kill Control for the South American Palm Weevil
HOOK SPW attracts the pest using a sex-specific pheromone (males). A minimal dosage of a toxicant is used as a killing agent to reduce the population density of SPW.
HOOK SPW attracts the pest using a sex-specific pheromone (males). A minimal dosage of a toxicant is used as a killing agent to reduce the population density of SPW.
Scientific Name
Rhynchophorus palmarum
Common Name
South American Palm Weevil
Female weevils bore into the palm with its rostrum and lays eggs into the palm. Pests in the larval stage then decimates the palm and can cause damage up to one meter long, eventually killing the palm. The South American palm weevil (SPW) is also a primary vector of disease for a nematode that causes red ring disease, a fatal wilt disease of palms.
Coconut palm, African oil palm, assai (acai) palm, sago palm, Canary Island date palm, date palm, sugar cane.
