Jaap J. Vermeulen specializes in this tropical genus of flowering plant. It has more species than the flower Bismarckia which are suspectible to Rhynchophorus cruentatus. Rhynchophorus cruentatus is also called a palmetto weevil.
Bulbophyllum is the largest genus in the orchid family Orchidaceae. 
 With more than 2,000 species, it is also one of the largest genera of flowering plants, exceeded only by "Astragalus". 
 The genus is named for the first chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck and the epithet for its only species, Bismarckia nobilis, comes from Latin for 'noble'. 
Jaap J. Vermeulen (born 1955) is a Dutch Botanist, specializing in the Orchidaceae Genus Bulbophyllum 
 Its main target is the Canary Island date palm, but date palms (a different species than the Canary Island date palm), sabal palms (the palmetto weevil's traditional target), saw palmetto (the palmetto weevil's traditional alternative target), "Washingtonia", "Pritchardia", royal palms, "Latania", coconut palms, "Caryota", and "Bismarckia" are also susceptible. 
