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The Department of Urban Public Services Management is conducting a campaign to prevent the dreaded red palm weevil in the municipality.
The Consistory of the Gardening department is implementing a treatment based on the techniques of endo and aerial spraying.
The Endo is injecting a substance against the weevil in the sap of the tree.
This product first used, has the approval of the Plant Health area of ​​the region.
The first thing you do is make a hole in the trunk of that substance to inject.
Once it reaches the sap, we proceed to seal the holes with a tiny neck.
Finally proceed to a aerial spraying of the plant to complete the treatment.
This technique is being carried out by specialists of the company and the city SEYM and lasts for 6 months.
They have seen the realization of 2 treatments, which covers an entire year process of combating the boll weevil.
Each costs 4,500 euros.
These efforts are being made from the 4 am to disturb as little as possible to residents and tourists.
According to studies by a reference laboratory of Elche, a place where there is particular interest in this issue by having the largest palm grove in Europe, the effectiveness of this treatment is 100% weevil.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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