Red palm weevils can fly 50 kilometers in 24 hours
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 15:33
in Biology & Nature
The red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) has been a pest of coconut palms in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines for a long time. More recently, it's become a pest of 40 different palm species in the Middle East and North Africa after it was found there in the 1980s.