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Population dynamics of Red Palm Weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier, 1790) Infesting Date Palm Trees in the 10th of Ramadan district, one of the new reclamation areas in E

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Last updated: 08 Feb 2025

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Palm pests and diseases.(control)

Abstract

Seasonal abundance of red palm weevil (RPW) adult population along two consecutive years (2022 and 2023) in date palm farms located at 10th of Ramadan, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, one of the new reclamation areas, was determined using Aggregation pheromone traps. Results indicated that the caught adults in the first year had high population of red palm weevil than those caught in the second year. In the two studied years, three peaks were noted and recorded at March (387, 122), April (574, 200), and November (507, 179) adults for 2022 and 2023 respectively. The highest numbers of RPW adults were recorded in April. There were much more attracted females than males. In the two tested years the proportion of males was 45.27 and 43.60%, while females were 54.73 and 56.40%, respectively which represented 1:1.21 and 1:1.29 in the two tested years 2022 and 2023 respectively. Additionally, these findings demonstrated that the impact of weather factors on RPW adults capturing through both simple correlation and regression values was insignificantly positive for maximum, minimum, and mean temperature, while it was highly significant for mean relative humidity in 2022, furthermore, the correlation was insignificantly negative for maximum, minimum, and mean temperature, while it was significant for relative humidity in 2023. From the obtained results, it can be recommended that if the decision is made for IPM of RPW in the studied area using chemical control by preventive spraying, it must be in conjunction with the timing of the occurrence of the insect peaks.

DOI

10.21608/esjp.2024.346420.1003

Keywords

Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier (RPW), Population dynamics, date palm, weather factors, pheromone trap

Authors

First Name

Olfat

Last Name

Arafa

MiddleName

Elsayed

Affiliation

Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt

Email

olfatelsayed@yahoo.com

City

Sharqia

Orcid

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First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Batt

MiddleName

Abd El-Ghany 

Affiliation

Plant Protection Research Institute

Email

d.mohammed_batt@yahoo.com

City

Menoufia

Orcid

0000-0002-9746-7832

First Name

Wael

Last Name

El Shafei

MiddleName

Kamal Mohamed

Affiliation

Date palm pests &diseases Department-central laboratory for date palm Agricultural Research center (ARC),

Email

waelkamal27@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-9746-7832

Volume

5

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

53547

Issue Date

2025-01-01

Receive Date

2024-12-21

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Page Start

16

Page End

28

Online ISSN

2735-5152

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409,383

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Scientific articles

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2,256

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian International Journal of Palms

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https://esjp.journals.ekb.eg/

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Population dynamics of Red Palm Weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier, 1790) Infesting Date Palm Trees in the 10th of Ramadan district, one of the new reclamation areas in E

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08 Feb 2025