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Bugs in coconut

mmplant

By mmplant
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mmplant Newbie

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Hello, I was recently gifted this coconut palm for Christmas, I've noticed today these tiny beetle looking bugs crawling out of the actual coconut itself. Please can anyone advise on how to get rid of them?

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John2468 Mentor

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This is a pineapple beetle or Urophorus humeralis. How many do you see? What you can do is to manually pick them off or to use a pesticide or you can create insect traps.

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mmplant Newbie

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So far I have picked off around 9 but if I blow in the crack in the coconut more come out so I'm expecting there's alot more within the nut itself. I have provanto insect spray, should I spray it down the crack? I just don't want to risk damaging the plant?

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I wouldn’t spray directly into the crack, I would spray around the whole nut. Some into the crack is fine.

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SouthernCATropicals Enthusiast

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Flood them out pour so much water inside the crack they have to leave them kill them. I had one with 2 cockroaches inside it 😩the coconut won’t mind they grow in water sometimes 

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10b/11a - San Diego

SeanK Grand Master

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When you have a day over 10°C, drag the palm outside and douse with insecticide.

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