weevils in English

noun
1
a small beetle with an elongated snout, the larvae of which typically develop inside seeds, stems, or other plant parts. Many are pests of crops or stored foodstuffs.
Weevils bore through the stem and eat the pith within, and beetle larvae bore through the roots.

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1. Coleopterans include the beetles, weevils, and fireflies

2. What are Boll weevils attracted to?

3. Boll weevils, or cotton Boll weevils, were a significant problem to North Carolina cotton growers during much of the twentieth century

4. But, like Boll weevils, human beings are adaptable.

5. Billbugs belong to a group of beetles called weevils or snout beetles

6. Low cunning with moats Adult weevils are difficult to eradicate.

7. But life has changed for the Boll weevils in the new Congress

8. Boll weevils are considered a key pest in cotton production because the insecticides cotton producers use early in the season to control Boll weevils also eliminate populations of beneficial insects

9. Curculionidae, the largest family of Beetles, are better known as weevils

10. The Secret Order of Boll weevils was founded in 1966 as a secret society

11. Female Boll weevils deposited eggs in cotton flower buds, called squares, and in small bolls

12. Curculio, any of various stout-bodied weevils of the beetle family Curculionidae (order Coleoptera)

13. Boll weevils caused no economic loss in 11 years due to mortality attributed primarily to ants.

14. Boll weevils entered the United States from Mexico in the late 1800s, when they were first spotted in Texas

15. We have to cut and burn everything before the weevils get to the main crops in the courtyard.

16. The Boll Weevil Charity Foundation (BWCF) is the nonprofit arm of the Secret Order of Boll weevils

17. The pesticide killed off weevils and other insects, leaving the army worm to multiply unchecked by its natural enemies.

18. To capitalize on this effective predation of boll weevils by ants, unnecessary applications of insecticides should be eliminated.

19. What adult Boll weevils lack in size they make up for with their larvae’s ability to feed on and destroy cotton

20. A small number of Boll weevils were captured in Louisiana during 2009, and expectations are that 2010 will not have

21. Kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Arthropoda - arthropods » class Insecta - insects » order Coleoptera - beetles » family Curculionidae - weevils » subtribus Curculionina

22. Traps Baited with pheromone plus 400 g of agave captured more weevils in comparison to traps Baited with pheromone alone or 200 g of agave alone

23. This type of parthenogenesis is known as apomictic or Ameiotic parthenogenesis and occurs in Trichoniscus (Isopoda), Daphnia pulex (Crustacea), Campelona rufum (Mollusca), weevils and long-horned grasshoppers.

24. Midshipmen were notorious in the Royal Navy during these times for eating everything that moved, including ships' weevils, nicknamed Bargemen, and bilge rats, called "millers"

25. Avaunt ® INSECTICIDE Avaunt ® insecticide controls the lepidopteran spectrum, plus several species of weevils and other beetles as well as sucking pests across a wide array of specialty crops.

26. Traps Baited with pheromone plus 400 g of agave captured more weevils compared to traps Baited with pheromone alone, 200 g of agave alone, and 200 g of agave plus pheromone

27. The Boll Weevil Eradication Program (BWEP) was initiated and a gene was inserted into the cotton plant's DNA that allowed the cotton plant to produce a chemical protein that is toxic to Boll weevils

28. In fact, “lavender oil or powdered foliage and flowers may also be useful as both commercial . . . and domestic pesticides as the application of lavender deters mites, grain weevils, aphids and clothes moth,” reports one study.

29. Plum Curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar; PC) are weevils (snout beetles) that are native to North America and occur from Canada to Florida and west to central Nebraska.Historically, they were sporadic pests of apples in western North Carolina, but in recent years they have become a significant problem in some orchards.

30. British sailors at the time of Nelson were just about the worst-fed people around, living as they did on a monotonous diet that included such culinary Awfulnesses as boiled salt beef and ship’s biscuits (which after weeks at sea had to be rapped on the table to persuade the weevils to …

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