Benedikt

If I understand you correctly, someone sent thirty date palms from
Egypt to Curacao?

Why? Who?

More details, please?

Hugh

--- In RPWgroup@yahoogroups.com, "bvonlaar" <laar@...> wrote:
>
> Dear all!
> The chances for the presence of RPW are very high there I got a
> request around 2 years ago from
> an importer of palms. They importet palms from Egypt because they
> are cheaper...(so far their arguments).
> If I remember right then the number of importet palms was 30. Some
> of them showed the presence of the
> blind passenger short after arriving/planting. I advised to remove
> this palms at once including a proper waste
> management and take the other into quarantine for observation.
> Also they should inform the officials/government about this
> potential risks.
> I never heared again something from this guy.
> Now I resume that they don´t followed the advise and now they have
> quite fine problem.
>
> Best regards,
> Benedikt von Laar
>
>
>
>
> --- In RPWgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Hugh Harries" <harrieshc@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Vidyasagar
> >
> > The picture posted in the Willemstad report appears to be that of
> RPW
> > - but the photo was not from Curacao!
> >
> > A Google image search for Rhynchophorus ferrigineus attributes the
> > same picture to www.palms.org where it is number one of ten
> pictures
> > in an article in the International Palm Scoiety journal
> > <http://www.palms.org/palmsjournal/2002/ferry_1.jpg>
> >
> > With all due respect to Gerard van Buurt, Head of the Fisheries
> > Sector, Department of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries,
> > Curaçao, <gvbuurt@> we need to know made the
> > identification of the Curacao Rhynchophorus as ferriguneus [note
> > mispelling] before going any further.
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> > --- In RPWgroup@yahoogroups.com, "vidyasagar49" <vidyasagar49@>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear Dr. Hugh Harries,
> > > The vector of red ring disease caused by nematode,
> Bursaphelenchus
> > > cocophilus, is Palm weevil, Rhynchophorus palmarum. This species
> is
> > > known to occur in this region for a long time. However, the
> report from
> > > Willemstad, Curacao is about Red Palm Weevil, Rhynchophorus
> ferriguneus.
> > > The RPW is not implicated in transimission of nematode
> diseases. The
> > > picture posted in the Willemstad report appears to be that of
> RPW.
> > > Hence, it should be considered as the appearance of a new
> species in
> > > that region.
> > >
> > > Vidyasagar, PSPV
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In RPWgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Hugh Harries" <harrieshc@>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Khalid
> > > >
> > > > The article is reporting palm weevil in Curacao but it has
> been in the
> > > > Caribbean since the 1960s - in Trinidad, where it is
> implicated in the
> > > > spread of the nematode that causes red ring of coconut.
> > > >
> > > > Hugh
> > > > Coconut Time Line http://cocos.arecaceae.com/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In RPWgroup@yahoogroups.com, "Khalid" alhudaib2002@ wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Dear Members:
> > > > >
> > > > > RPW in Caribbeanş, for more information please go to
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.redpalmweevil.com/newlook/RPWReport/Caribbean.htm
> > > > >
> > > > > Regard
> > > > >
> > > > > Dr. Khalid Alhudaib
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>