Best Management Practices
Best Management Practices by Applicable Pests : Red palm weevil (RPW)
Sanitation
- Keep nursery and loading areas clean, litter and weed free, and properly dispose of waste. - *
- For plants, avoid heat and moisture stress - *
- Divert soil and water pathways from infected areas away from nursery -
- Use clean media and sterilize used pots, trays, and flats. - *
- Avoid monocultures by mixing susceptible and hardy plants -
- Keep records of incoming and outgoing stock as well as nursery maintenance and field history - *
- Conduct frequent in-house inspections - *
- Encourage natural predators and parasites -
- Rotate insecticides/fungicide chemical families - *
- Prevent plant blow-down by creating wind breaks - *
- Deficient or excess fertilizer can make plants weak and create ideal conditions for certain pests and pathogens. - *
nursery layout
- Keep nursery and loading areas clean, litter and weed free, and properly dispose of waste. - *
- For plants, avoid heat and moisture stress - *
- Divert soil and water pathways from infected areas away from nursery -
- Use clean media and sterilize used pots, trays, and flats. - *
- Avoid monocultures by mixing susceptible and hardy plants -
- Keep records of incoming and outgoing stock as well as nursery maintenance and field history - *
- Conduct frequent in-house inspections - *
- Encourage natural predators and parasites -
- Rotate insecticides/fungicide chemical families - *
- Prevent plant blow-down by creating wind breaks - *
- Deficient or excess fertilizer can make plants weak and create ideal conditions for certain pests and pathogens. - *
and cultural practices
- Keep nursery and loading areas clean, litter and weed free, and properly dispose of waste. - *
- For plants, avoid heat and moisture stress - *
- Divert soil and water pathways from infected areas away from nursery -
- Use clean media and sterilize used pots, trays, and flats. - *
- Avoid monocultures by mixing susceptible and hardy plants -
- Keep records of incoming and outgoing stock as well as nursery maintenance and field history - *
- Conduct frequent in-house inspections - *
- Encourage natural predators and parasites -
- Rotate insecticides/fungicide chemical families - *
- Prevent plant blow-down by creating wind breaks - *
- Deficient or excess fertilizer can make plants weak and create ideal conditions for certain pests and pathogens. - *
Sanitation, nursery layout, and cultural practices
- Keep nursery and loading areas clean, litter and weed free, and properly dispose of waste. - *
- For plants, avoid heat and moisture stress - *
- Divert soil and water pathways from infected areas away from nursery -
- Use clean media and sterilize used pots, trays, and flats. - *
- Avoid monocultures by mixing susceptible and hardy plants -
- Keep records of incoming and outgoing stock as well as nursery maintenance and field history - *
- Conduct frequent in-house inspections - *
- Encourage natural predators and parasites -
- Rotate insecticides/fungicide chemical families - *
- Prevent plant blow-down by creating wind breaks - *
- Deficient or excess fertilizer can make plants weak and create ideal conditions for certain pests and pathogens. - *
Exclusion
- Create physical barriers to exclude pests. -
- Clean mechanical equipment to prevent the spread of soil-borne pests and pathogens -
- Make sure all stock you receive is clean in order to exclude pests and pathogens. Create an isolation area to store new stock. - *
- Plants collected from the wild could carry pests and pathogens. Self-propagation of new plants can prevent introductions. - *
- Visually inspect all incoming stock; Inspect before shipping and upon receiving shipments. - *
- Monitor high risk plants on borders and be aware of nearby nursery pest status - *
- Treat plant wounds to prevent infection/infestation. Pretreat plants before taking cuttings -
Trapping and Monitoring
- Conduct a trapping and detection program using yellow sticky traps -
- Monitoring and detection using pitfall traps -
- Take bioaccoustic measurements to determine infestations of trunks -
- Use vane traps -
- Pheromone traps -
Minimizing Spread
Treatments
* indicates a common or universal best management practice that can be applied to all selected pests.