How To Use Weevil In A Sentence
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Neither of them had a good word to say about the carpenter ant or the Japanese beetle, much less the curculio weevil.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Note 1: bo or boll weevil or weavil, a grayish weevil, super-family of beetles, that infests the cotton plant and feeds on the squares and bolls. drawing
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
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For example, an adult skylark was found with 48 weevils in its stomach.
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Those weedy boll weevils and the smirky lizards are witnesses to her behavior.
The Town Secrets
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odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack
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Got a boll weevil off the merci, and it just ate your house down.
METAPLANETARY
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The boll weevil infests cotton fields and millionaires go bankrupt.
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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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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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The endophytes make Turf Alive! lawns invulnerable to webworms, billbugs, armyworms, cutworms, aphids and some weevils.
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Around Washington the chinquapin is a weed tree, and if you gather a peck of chinquapins you will find that the whole peck, in two weeks, have turned to weevils.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.
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The weevil larvae become adults in 17 to 28 days, depending on the weather.
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Alfalfa weevils have been serious pests of alfalfa in Nebraska for some time.
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Helping the weevils was the relatively clean water flowing into the dam.
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After harvest, pods should be stored at 0° C to prevent fermentation of the pods and. if bruchid seed weevils (Amblycerus robiniae) are present in the pods, it will prevent them from spreading within the pods.
Chapter 34
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Alternatively, chemically-treated composts are available, which are said to keep vine weevils at bay for 12 months, or proprietary insecticides which work for about six months.
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Only the maise and rice weevils can fly and infest crops in the field.
Chapter 10
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Black vine weevil adults chew irregular notches on the edges of hosta leaves.
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This spray can be used against weevil and other crop pests.
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An analogy to a minor-league ballplayer is apt: if you get your "cup of coffee" in the majors, would you be happy going back to play for the Podunk Boll Weevils?
First on the Ticker: Palin will not run for re-election
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Parasitic wasps and fungal diseases prevent weevils from causing economic injury in most years.
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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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He was already beginning to think of Jordan as a kind of spiritual weevil or mouse in his woodwork.
COFFIN IN FASHION
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The Squash beetle (Diabrotica vittata, Fig. 231, and Fig. 230, D. 12-punctata) now attacks the squash plants before they are fairly up; and the Plum weevil (Conotrachelus nenuphar, Fig. 232) will sting the newly formed fruit, late in the month, or early in June.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
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There was apparently no organization tasked with looking at current and potential effects of the weevil on cotton crops throughout the United States.
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Note 1: weevil was wrongly spelled "weavil" on the original issue of this song by Paramount Records;
Charley Patton Lyrics
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Neither of them had a good word to say about the carpenter ant or the Japanese beetle, much less the curculio weevil.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Note 1: bo or boll weevil or weavil, a grayish weevil, super-family of beetles that infests the cotton plant and feeds on the squares and bolls. drawing
Bessie Smith Lyrics
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Sift through the litter where the windrows were, checking in and around crowns for larvae, pupae, and adult weevils.
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Most biologists use the term parasitoid to refer only to insects with this type of life history, but some argue the term should be used more embrasively to include parasitic nematodes, seed weevils, and certain bacteria and viruses (e.g., bacteriophages), all of which obligately destroy their host.
Les Jones
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The ecological implication of this life history strategy of rice water weevil was discussed.
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Ranging unstoppably across disciplines and topics, Fisher here sends up the "earnest addicts of stone-ground, hand-trampled, nature-cured and inevitably mildewed and weevilly buckwheat groats," a passage found in the chapter "J is for Juvenile dining.
The Romantical She
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The alfalfa weevil larvae spend nearly all their time on the plant.
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The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their life calculatedly conflating issues such as the "Ground Zero mosque" into gigantic media crapgasms.
Buzzwords for blowhards
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But in the early years of the century, the 3)boll weevil began 4)devastating the cotton farms in the south.
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But in the early years of the century, the boll weevil began devastating the cotton farms in the south.
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Two insect biocontrol species, weevils in the genus Neochetina, were used, along with mechanical removal, to control the highly invasive water hyacinth, which has also plagued waterways in the southern United States.
Biocontrol of Invasive Water Hyacinth Contributes to Socioeconomic Improvement | Impact Lab
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Pests particularly destructive to Norway spruce include gall aphids, white pine weevil, spider mites, Cytospora canker and Rhizosphaera needlecast.
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Enemies: Sucking insects forming white downy patches on the bark and twigs, the _white pine weevil_, a boring insect, and the _white pine blister rust_, a fungus, are among its principal enemies.
Studies of Trees
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Rhododendrons and azaleas will continue to sell despite deer, black vine weevil, phytophhora, and rhizoc, but should they?
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Shell holes, shattered doors and broken windows, telegraph poles lying about, with their hairy whiskers twisting raggedly over the veldt, farmhouses burnt to cinders, hotels that had once been smart in their way now weevilled by shrapnel -- all these things surrounded the encamped division which so brilliantly had crossed the river.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
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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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Fisher believes this new device will revolutionize detection of root-feeding pests like the weevil.
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The weevil's eggs are deposited inside the banana tissue and once hatched, they tunnel through the corm for feeding and growth.
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If doubts hadn't weevilled their way into Trevor's brain long before this they would be doing so now.
PROSPECT HILL
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This spray can be used against weevil and other crop pests.
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He was sparingly fed upon weevilled biscuit and vile messes of tallowy rice, and to drink he was given luke-warm water that was often stale, saving that sometimes when the spell of rowing was more than usually protracted the boatswains would thrust lumps of bread sodden in wine into the mouths of the toiling slaves to sustain them.
The Sea-Hawk
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The weevil larvae feed at the base of the flower and interfere with seed production.
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The chart compares characteristics of the alfalfa weevil and clover leaf weevil.
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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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The bo or boll weevil or weavil is a grayish weevil, super-family of beetles, that infests the cotton plant and feeds on the squares and bolls. drawing;
Jimmy Reed Lyrics
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About a fifth of the infested seedpods also contained the larvae of a small chalcid wasp, Spintherus leguminium, parasitic on the hapless weevils.
Wildwood
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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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Note 1: bo or boll weevil or weavil, a grayish weevil, super-family of beetles, that infests the cotton plant and feeds on the squares and bolls. drawing.
Ma Rainey Lyrics
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Alfalfa weevils are small green worms with a light stripe down the back.
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Some 100,000 psyllids have been released at sites around south Florida to help the melaleuca leaf weevil, Oxyops vitiosa, combat the invasive tree, which has been taking over 14 to 15 acres of the Everglades each day.
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Now scientists have identified a natural odor, or pheromone, released by the male curculio weevil that attracts both males and females.
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Nematodes have been useful in reducing black vine weevil larval populations, especially in containerized plants.
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On the menu were silkworm pupae, weevil ants and mealworms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet rhodos have grown in the wilds of the world for thousands of years without chemical fertilizer, bloom booster, weevil killer, soil acidifier or any other manner of nasty toxin.
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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.
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Important pests of eastern white pine include white pine weevil, various sawflies, bark and needle aphids, pine tube moth, white pine blister rust and white pine root decline, particularly on wet sites.
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`Nobody very exciting, just one of the weevil family," she called over, displaying the quivering dot on her hand.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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Damage to stored grain by the lesser grain borer, rice weevil, red flour beetle, and rusty grain beetle costs the U.S. wheat industry about $500 million annually.
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Onions repel aphids, rose chafer beetle and carrot flies, weevils, moles, fruit tree borers it controls rust flies and some nematodes and especially protects tomatoes against red spiders.
Organic Gardening: Companion Planting
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Help at hand Away with vine weevil Pippa Greenwood outwits this frustrating plant predator.
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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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Vine weevil, the gardener's worst enemy, is often properly controlled by chemical compost additives.
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Sift through the litter where the windrows were, checking in and around crowns for larvae, pupae, and adult weevils.
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The project was fraught with extreme risk, but General Gatacre, though fully aware that he was without the necessary reinforcements to make good a continuous advance, resolved to accept the hazard for the sake of the chance of success, and for the sake of the moral effect such success might make in a district weevilled with disaffection.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
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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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Helping the weevils was the relatively clean water flowing into the dam.
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Hazelnuts are prone to attack from a pest called the nut weevil.
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There is another group of weevils, nearly related to the common plum curculio, the species of which attack immature nuts.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920
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Closet Republicans they are called by some, boll weevils by others.
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He was the weevil in the fruit, according to Rex, the canker in their midst.
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This particular species of weevil is a pest on peas.
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Today caterpillars and weevils feed on roots, stems, leaves, reproductive cones, and seeds of cycads.
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Parthenogenetic weevils are apomictic.
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Most biologists use the term parasitoid to refer only to insects with this type of life history, but some argue the term should be used more embrasively to include parasitic nematodes, seed weevils, and certain bacteria and viruses (e.g., bacteriophages), all of which obligately destroy their host.
Les Jones
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I was surprised when the Royal Horticultural Society named the vine weevil as the worst pest in the garden last year.
