weevil|weevils in English

noun

[wee·vil || 'wɪːvɪl]

beetle that has a snout-like projection and feeds on various grains and fruits

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

2. Notable species include the rice weevil (S. oryzae), wheat weevil (S. granarius), and maize weevil (S. zeamais).

3. Pest infestation also easily occurs, mainly rice weevil and corn weevil, etc.

4. 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

5. Coleopterans include the beetles, weevils, and fireflies

6. What are Boll weevils attracted to?

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

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

9. The weevil is a shiny, cylindrical beetle.

10. There was no significant difference of amount of offspring and sex ratio between rice weevil and maize weevil in rice.

11. Size: Adult Billbugs are beetles in the weevil family

12. Agaves’ only significant pest is the agave snout weevil

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

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

15. Billbugs are a type of weevil of the genus Sphenophorus

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

17. Overview Origin The chestnut weevil, Curculio elephas, is a weevil native to southern and central Europe, which feeds on the seeds (nuts) of chestnuts and oaks

18. 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

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

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

21. A tiny weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae, has been used successfully to control giant salvinia.

22. Boll weevil definition, a snout beetle, Anthonomus grandis, that attacks the Bolls of cotton

23. Weevil larvae are Apodous; in contrast, most scarab larvae bear six hooklike legs.

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

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