Palm tree-killing weevil found in South Texas

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 07:33 in Biology & Nature

An intensive, area-wide survey of the Lower Rio Grande Valley has detected the presence of a palm tree-killing weevil that has caused extensive damage in other parts of the world, according to Dr. Raul Villanueva, an entomologist at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Weslaco.

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