Thrips are tiny, skinny insects that feed on yucca leaves, causing them to curl. If one of your Agaves die from weevils, DON’T use its surviving pups in your landscape. In outdoor landscapes, add-ing copious amounts (up to 25%) of pumice will improve drainage and soil structure. These are best applied on the lower trunk of the plants and around the base of the plant to kill the weevils as they climb. Symptoms - Damage by the `Yucca Weevil', Scyphophrus acupunctatus, is most extensive in the cane. Plant bugs ( Caulotops and other species) are small insects that occasionally build up in large numbers and damage agave plants by feeding on leaves, resulting in light yellow scars or spots. Control of agave snout weevil is difficult, and infestations can be prevented by maintaining healthy plants and destroying infested plants. Weevils. Control of insect pests in crop plants and stored food grains using plant saponins: A review. Curculionidae, Coleoptera) in sisal in Tanzania. Adult root weevils can be controlled with sprays of several kinds of pyrethroid insecticides such as permethrin, bifenthrin, cyfluthrin, or cyhalothrin. The control of the sisal weevil (Scyphophorus interstitialis Gyll. 4) Weevils. The control of the sisal weevil … IV-Field trials with insecticides in bulbil nurseries. Sandy soils should be avoided because they will drain very Snout weevils are beetles about ½ inch (12 mm) in … The white grub-like larvae tunnel under the bark which can girdle and therefore kill the plant and also tunnel in the tip killing the growing plant. The Yucca Weevil (Scyphophorus acupunctatus) mainly attacks the cane of the yucca plant. In a healthy plant, thrips won't do too much damage. Agave Snout Weevil (Scyphophorus acupunctatus) ... and yucca successfully in heavy clay soils. Hopkinson D; Materu MEA, 1970c. A similar species also colonizes yuccas. The leaves begin to turn yellow and die, and a putrid smell emanates from the infected trunk. The agave snout weevil is also a serious pest where blue agave is grown commercially for tequila and in foreign countries where agaves have been introduced as landscape plants. Control - Many materials are registered and effective at controlling thrips. BioAdvanced Tree & Shrub Protect & Feed is unfortunately not formulated to control Yucca and/or Agave weevils. A close relative of the agave weevil attacks yucca as well as agave plants. Mary and Gary Irish had a good suggestion in their outstanding book, Agave, Yuccas and Related Plants: A Gardeners Guide (2000, Timber Press). This insect bores in and opens the trunk to bacterial infection. Instead, try to locate pups or bulbils from an Agave that successfully flowered and may have had some genetic resistance to weevils and likely passed that Eventually, the plant falls over and dies. If you feel the need to control them, you can use the same recommendations as for controlling mealy bugs. 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