SIGHTING OF SOUTHERN GREY SHRIKES PREYING ON RED PALM WEEVILIN TWO COUNTRIES

Autori

  • MOISES FAJARDO GMR Canarias, Tenerife, Canary Island.
  • MANUEL MORALES GMR Canarias, Tenerife, Canary Island
  • ESPERANZA FONTENLA GMR Canarias, Tenerife, Canary Island
  • CLAUDIA GIORDANO Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Fanin 50, 40127 Bologna
  • EMILIANO MORI Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, Via P.A. Mattioli, 4, 53100 Siena, Italy.
  • GIUSEPPE MAZZA CREA Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification, via di Lanciola 12/A, I-50125 Cascine del Riccio,Firenze, Italy

Parole chiave:

diet, Lanius meridionalis, palms, Phoenix canariensis, Phoenix dactilifera, Rhynchophorusferrugineus, Saudi Arabia, Spain

Abstract

Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, commonly known as Red Palm Weevil, is one of the most destructive and invasivepalm pests’ species in the world. The most important host species are coconut palms, oil palms, Canary Island palms and itis considered as a key pest in date palms crops. As the existing chemical – based treatments are not efficient, the eco-friendly biological control methods have now attracted high interest. In this note, we report for the first time the predationof the Red Palm Weevil by two subspecies of Southern Grey Shrike Lanius meridionalis, once in Spain and once in SaudiArabia.

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Pubblicato

2019-01-09

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V. 101 (2018)

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