I always loved these trees so much. Here in San Diego we now have the South American palm weevil and it is literally destroying every single one and it is making its way to Los Angeles. It is the most depressing thing if you are a lover of these plants. The palm weevil seems to mainly hit phoenix canariensis but on very rare occasion will hit a few other palms like the chilean wine palm, Bismarck and prithcardias. There is a very mature wine palm in my neighborhood that just died from it. Another thing that happens to canaries is if someone doesn't sterilize their tool they can get a fatal disease called fusarium. The city arborist tends to spread this a lot when they go trimming all over town. No one seems to care. I have literally seen well over a thousand dead canaries in the last few years. They used to be everywhere and now if you see a healthy one you know it's just a matter of time until it will be killed unless it is treated which is extremely rare.
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I always loved these trees so much. Here in San Diego we now have the South American palm weevil and it is literally destroying every single one and it is making its way to Los Angeles. It is the most depressing thing if you are a lover of these plants. The palm weevil seems to mainly hit phoenix canariensis but on very rare occasion will hit a few other palms like the chilean wine palm, Bismarck and prithcardias. There is a very mature wine palm in my neighborhood that just died from it. Another thing that happens to canaries is if someone doesn't sterilize their tool they can get a fatal disease called fusarium. The city arborist tends to spread this a lot when they go trimming all over town. No one seems to care. I have literally seen well over a thousand dead canaries in the last few years. They used to be everywhere and now if you see a healthy one you know it's just a matter of time until it will be killed unless it is treated which is extremely rare.
That is sad, no palm pests this far north
Man,i've planted few palms...is there any way so i can contact with you?
Here on YT and also on FB I can be contacted. Happy Palm growing