| A few types of insects live on red maples, including weevils, buff-tip moths, and vapourer moths. |
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| Researchers at some locations focus on beneficial insects like wasps to control insect pests such as alfalfa weevils or gypsy moths. |
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| Why was nothing was done to fumigate the grain and protect it from weevils? |
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| The year before boll weevils marched into Georgia in 1915, the state produced 2.8 million bales of cotton. |
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| Nematodes have been successfully deployed against a wide range of insect pests, including white grubs, weevils, fruit flies and woodwasps. |
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| Today caterpillars and weevils feed on roots, stems, leaves, reproductive cones, and seeds of cycads. |
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| The endophytes make Turf Alive! lawns invulnerable to webworms, billbugs, armyworms, cutworms, aphids and some weevils. |
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| The larvae of root weevils feed on strawberry roots and crowns, which can weaken, stunt, or kill plants. |
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| Parasitic wasps and fungal diseases prevent weevils from causing economic injury in most years. |
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| Although they are more usually a problem with plants grown in pots, vine weevils will attack plants growing out in the garden. |
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| Fungal diseases cause infected larvae to crawl to the tops of the plants where the dead weevils will be easy to see. |
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| Alfalfa weevils have been serious pests of alfalfa in Nebraska for some time. |
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| Not only is it thirstier than most other commercial crops, it requires heavy applications of pesticides to keep boll weevils and other pests at bay. |
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| Helping the weevils was the relatively clean water flowing into the dam. |
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| Alfalfa weevils are small green worms with a light stripe down the back. |
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| Nigel Collinson writes from Sutton-on-the-Forest wanting to know if the eggs and grubs of vine weevils will survive in the frozen compost of containers. |
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| At first, manufacturers who used the arsenic to make an insecticide for killing cotton boll weevils in the South provided the most lucrative market for Anaconda's byproducts. |
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| He served on agricultural task forces on boll weevils and the pink boll worm. |
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| Food supplies were frequently in terrible condition, infested with mould, weevils, worms, and maggots. |
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| The Scolytinae are a subfamily of weevils, called the bark beetles because of their habit of phloeophagy. |
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| Fish have been preoccupied feeding on big columns of daphnia as well as the brown beetles and green weevils which have blown onto the surface. |
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| These microscopic parasitic eelworms can now help to reduce slugs, leatherjackets, vine weevils, caterpillars and ants. |
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| The maps use a combination of soil and air temperatures to delineate the current distribution of both Diaprepes root weevils and helpful egg-attacking parasitoids. |
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| In the space of a few minutes I note ants, spittlebug nymphs, weevils, spiders, snails, slugs, millipedes, worms, beetles, and beetle larvae of all kinds. |
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| The team found insignificant amounts of organophosphate insecticides used to control boll weevils in runoff from either the Bt or non-Bt cotton sites. |
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| Boll weevils could have consumed every cotton plant on the planet. |
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| Murdock said PIGS was originally developed to store cowpeas, or black-eyed peas, which can be infested in storage by cowpea weevils, an invasive insect. |
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| He introduced daily baked bread on board ships, whereas when he entered the service it was customary to eat hard biscuits, frequently infested by biscuit weevils. |
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| In the UK the insects that cause the most problems are the common furniture beetle, death watch beetle, powder post beetle and the house longhorn beetle plus weevils. |
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| Weevils bore through the stem and eat the pith within, and beetle larvae bore through the roots. |
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| Tim began his blues odyssey in the Boll Weevils, then Soul Sect, 3 AM, Ra Ho Tep, The Band With No Name and The Last Fair Deal plus lots of solo stuff. |
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