Abstract Several studies have investigated palm trees’ microbiota infected with red weevil (RPW) ( Rhynchophorus ferrugineus ), the major pest of trees. This study compared microbial communities and uninfected trees in Hail region, Northern Saudi Arabia, determined by high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing Illumina MiSeq. The results indicated that taxonomic diversity variation was higher for...

The invasive red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is considered one of the world's most devastating insect pests to palm trees. It was observed that larvae of this pest are able to inhibit microbial growth on the rearing media when they start feeding and this observation has led us to study the effect of red palm weevils on various microbial species. T...

The article presents the monitoring data of three most dangerous invasive insect species in territory Abkhazia: palm borer Paysandisia archon (Burmeister), boxwood moth Cydalima perspectalis (Walker), red weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier). All them penetrated into Abkhazia period from 2014 to 2016 Russian Federation. penetration is accompanied by serious ecological and economic consequ...

The taxonomy of Polyporales is complicated by the variability in key morphological characters across families and genera, now being gradually resolved through molecular phylogenetic analyses. Here a new resupinate species, Crystallicutis damiettensis sp. nov. found on decayed trunks date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) trees fruit orchards Nile Delta region Egypt reported. Multigene analyses based I...

Evaluating a novel fungal strain’s pathogenicity to important pests and their involved immune responses may give crucial data on broad scale for future use in pest management strategies. Date palms are mostly destroyed by invading populations of red palm weevils; thus, developing natural biopesticides them requires comprehensive screening program plant secondary metabolites. In this research, w...