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Originally Posted by Backyard Banana Joe
I was walking through the patch when I noticed a small Manzano that was stunted and looked pretty terrible, that wasn’t getting enough sun. I pushed on it, and to my surprise, it leaned over. Then I noticed the corm had snapped off a little below the soil. I lifted it up, and the corm was rotten, and there was a grub peeking out at me from a tunnel in the corm! Oh horror of horrors!
I immediately dug out the whole corm and put it all in a bucket. I didn’t see any borer damage in the pstem, and I haven’t noticed any adult weevils anywhere. I really, really hope this isn’t the dreaded Corm Borer.
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That's very interesting that the weevil was eating a Manzano. The Manzano is very resistant to attracting weevils, meaning weevils prefer eating other varieties before the Manzano. I've seen Manzano that have been growing in the wild for over a hundred years and the bananas growing around them had weevils but the Manzano were weevil free.
What other varieties do you grow?
Plantains are probably the most desirable meal for weevils.