PHOTO # 11
For Moapa Palms Reports
This photo shows one of many standing Palms with dime or quarter sized holes in the trunks. (This one is at "Angel Springs"). Although James Cornett of the Palm Springs Desert Museum has said that he found absolutely no "Dinapate wrightii" exit holes in any trunks of Palms in the Moapa area. Cornett asserts that a lack of Palm Borer beetles suggests a grove is adventive and of recent origin. While I disagree with this notion which appears to claim no hard supportive evidence of any kind, I also am curious as to what he might call these holes. He claims in several papers that the Palm Borer is the only animal or insect which can make a hole in the tough fibrous mass of a palm and that woodpeckers can only "enlarge" Dinapate holes.