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Checkmate processionary pines located in municipal areas.
The Parks and Gardens, under the Department of Administration Modernization, Urban Quality and Participation, has established a comprehensive plan to prevent and eliminate this scourge that is the most important of the pine forests of the Mediterranean.
To avoid having any danger in the parks and gardens of Murcia, the City Council has thirty gardeners zone that monitor and inspect the 2,600 pines the municipality to control their presence, in addition to the two teams of pesticides are responsible for treat them.
With this type of annual control, especially in October and November, reaching 90% effective in controlling the municipal pine processionary.
To continue this intense work of prevention and alert caterpillar procesionaria, both at the end of winter and early spring, so-called 'pockets' manually, with a specialist professional and a lift basket are removed in order to reach the highest branches, no matter how high the caterpillars are.
Among the places where it has acted more against this animal are the Fleet with 172 pine trees, Santa Maria de Gracia 152, the Infante Juan Manuel with more than 150 or 145 Espinardo.
A performance that develops the City Council also provided in all districts of the municipality of Murcia as Lobosillo, the Alberca, Los Ramos or Algezares, among others are.
Also noteworthy performances withdrawal pockets of procesionaria manually in Torreagüera, Santo Angel, Alquerías, Beniaján or Garres.
From the Department are reminded that should see some caterpillar procesionaria should not step on or touch under any circumstances, because if it is pressed can be passed to the sole of the more than half million hairs that have this animal and problems originating in the skin and airways.
The pine processionary is the most important pest of pine forests of the Mediterranean.
Although not much is known, really caterpillars do not sting directly to humans or animals, the danger of this animal is its half a million stinging hairs.
The biggest problem lies in those districts that have forest areas near as Algezares, Beniaján, Stables, Torreagüera, the Garres, Santo Angel or La Alberca.
In these places the effectiveness of these treatments is reduced because there is a lot of "contamination" of the pine processionary passing of these districts.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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