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Friday, February 17, 2006
Tenerife palms face red beetle menace
Another report confirms the threat to Canary Islands palms.
"Remember the bad old days of Dutch elm disease and the havoc it wrought on the British landscape? Well, there are fears that a similar ecological disaster could befall the archipelago’s palm trees, thanks to another imported insect, the red palm weevil, a bug which is already getting its teeth into trees in Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria."
Tenerife palms face red beetle menace
