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Totana Mayor has proposed to the Ministry of Agriculture to intensify joint action to eliminate, as far as practicable, the mealybug infestation affecting drainers and is causing a plague of mosquitoes that mainly affects the areas of the districts of the municipality.
The mayor has been in contact with the Autonomous Region for technical totanera Town Hall along with the overall direction of Operations and Training Modernization of Agricultural analyze the new situation in which are the stokers in the municipality and actions that can be carried out to avoid, first, to extinguish the infestation and therefore eradicate the plague of mosquitoes that is causing discomfort and problems for residents in the area of the Orchard and Vineyard Carivete.
The Ministry has reported that through the Plant Health Service is conducting a series of actions to control the pest and reduce inconvenience to neighbors, such as locating and mapping of outbreaks, treatment, starting and drainers buried the affected and research.
From the various administrations have attempted to carry out all necessary actions to prevent this scourge did not harm the stokers as it has done, however, experts have extrapolated that has become a serious problem is not aid by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Moreover, since the Ministry has requested on several occasions to the European Commission responsible for the intensification of plant health checks in Border Inspection Points of the European Union.
Wild cochineal
Wild cochineal feeds exclusively on cacti, especially the genus Opuntia (prickly pear saithe or) and does not attack other plants.
Stiletto digs its mouth and suck fluids cactus.
The attacks are massive and eventually kill the drainer.
The production of figs is lost forever.
Mealybug females are wingless and take shelter under cottony masses where they can live up to 80 days.
They lay their eggs, the nymphs emerge red very active, which generate long filaments that lead that can be carried by the wind to colonize new drainer.
A single female is capable of generating an average of 130 descendants.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana. Fotos: Totana.com
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