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The chart compares characteristics of the alfalfa weevil and clover leaf weevil.
In East Africa's Lake Victoria, for example, two weevil species reduced the coverage of water hyacinth by 80 percent.
Now scientists have identified a natural odor, or pheromone, released by the male curculio weevil that attracts both males and females.
A gene for the amylase inhibitor 1 has been transferred from the common bean to the field pea to limit damage by the pea weevil.
Vine weevil, the gardener's worst enemy, is often properly controlled by chemical compost additives.
The weevil larvae feed at the base of the flower and interfere with seed production.
Nematodes have been useful in reducing black vine weevil larval populations, especially in containerized plants.
Black vine weevil adults chew irregular notches on the edges of hosta leaves.
Fisher believes this new device will revolutionize detection of root-feeding pests like the weevil.
Until he saw the eradication program in use, he could hardly believe that he would ever see the day when the boll weevil would be eliminated.
Adding to cotton growers' woes, the boll weevil migrated from Mexico to Texas in the 1890s and gradually invaded the entire cotton belt.
The weevil larvae become adults in 17 to 28 days, depending on the weather.
Rhododendrons and azaleas will continue to sell despite deer, black vine weevil, phytophhora, and rhizoc, but should they?
Today, it's not the boll weevil but the pink bollworm that threatens southwestern Pima, nesting inside the bolls, where it is hard to get.
Before the eradication program started, I was already using boll weevil traps, and I didn't have any trouble with the boll weevil at all.
With subsequent control of the boll weevil, cotton cultivation has increased but has not surpassed peanuts as the primary cash crop.
I was surprised when the Royal Horticultural Society named the vine weevil as the worst pest in the garden last year.
Nearly 5 million small farmers in China, India, South Africa, Brazil and Mexico now grow cotton genetically modified to protect it against the boll weevil.
Pea weevil infests up to 30 percent of the national field pea crop, resulting in export rejection and diminished quality of one of Australia's highest yielding pulses.
The latter is an unidentified species of weevil that was observed feeding on nectar during two flowering seasons but carrying the four pollinia attached only once.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The plum curculio, sometimes called the plum weevil, is a little creature about one fifth of an inch long.
The occasion of the meetings was the approach of the boll weevil to their districts.
They deserve to pay twenty cents a pound for their cotton when the boll weevil has cut down the normal supply.
The Indians in part of Guatemala raise cotton, although the boll weevil is abundant.
We have also been dealing with an invasion from Guatemala for some time, the boll weevil.
The cotton crop of the country is threatened with root rot, the bollworm, and the boll weevil.
The cotton farmers, especially those in the boll weevil territory, cannot afford to depend entirely on cotton as a cash crop.
Reports of injury by the walnut weevil, Conotrachelus juglandis, and also by codling moth larvae have been received.
It was discovered in the ironstone of Coalbrookdale, and was a kind of weevil.
But, as I sez, Mr. weevil don't understand boys when they're ill.
Of late years the greatest pest has been the Mexican boll weevil.
But it has in this country worse relatives even than the alfalfa weevil.
A fine weevil, of rich blue and emerald green colours, banded with black.
The boll weevil came along and wiped out his intermediate cotton crops.
The light trap attracts borers with light, while in the pheromone trap, red palm weevil is attracted to the pheromone by a chemical secretion.
But what can he want with Mr. weevil, and what can weevil want with him?
The boys glanced from one to the other as Mr. weevil paused.
Paul took the letter from the rack as Mr. weevil turned to his books.
How could he let that letter pass through the hands of Mr. weevil?
Percival had particularly wished to keep the note from Mr. weevil.
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