One of them is already injured on one side, having been stung by a curculio or other insect: there are keen senses about the apple-tree.
In such locations the butternut curculio also attacks and destroys the young nuts.
The black walnut curculio[12] is similar to the butternut curculio in seasonal history, but it attacks principally the fruit of the black walnut and butternut, apparently preferring the former.
In spite of its small size the curculio does, if neglected, great damage to our fruit crop.
For some account of the mode of playing with the “tali,” see the last Scene of the Asinaria, and the Curculio of Plautus, l.
On the worship of Æsculapius, see the opening Scene of the Curculio of Plautus.
The Amphitryon and the Curculio of Plautus commence before daybreak, and the action is carried on into the middle of the day.
The plum-orchard is usually the source of supply of curculio and early peaches ought not, therefore, be set with or near plums.
The plum-curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar Herbst) is sometimes a troublesome pest of the peach.
The curculio or fruit worm is best controlled by jarring, as for plums (which see).
If Thinned before this time, they are so small that it is difficult to pick them off; and it is not so easy to see the work of the curculio and thereby to select the injured fruits.
The two serious difficulties in the growing of Apricots are the ravages of the curculio (see Plum) and the danger to the flowers from the spring frosts.
The codling moth and curculio are twin terrors to apple-growers, partly because of their deadly destructiveness, and partly because man is so weak in resisting them.
The lower part of the inner or concave surface of the mandibles of grasshoppers will supply you with instances of the molary teeth, and the apex, also, of those of some weevils, as Curculio Hancocki K.
This variety appears to differ very little from the Curculio imperialis of Fabricius and Olivier, except in the remarkable hairiness of its legs.
It is as much exposed to depredations from curculio as the plum, and must be treated in the same way.
We did not apply our first spray quite soon enough and curculio larvae had already invaded a few of the terminals.
I have found only one nut showing any insect injury and this one was only slightly injured, whereas last summer we lost a considerable percentage of the nuts from curculio injury.
I noticed in the American Fruit Grower that plum curculio was controlled in the peach orchards through the use of hexaethyl tetraphosphate.
I am not troubled with the chestnut curculio yet, but if this chemical gives control over the curculio insect family we will certainly be able to raise large crops of all of the nuts mentioned.
My Gellatly heartnut was riddled by thecurculio last year.
As stated before we have found that the butternut curculio is a very bad pest with the Persian walnuts, also heartnuts and butternuts.
In the past four or five years the butternut curculio (identified as such by Prof.
DDT Dust versus Butternut Curculio I was prompted to write this note by reading Mr. S.
The butternut and hazel curculio appear to me to be the same insect.
If this chemical poison controls plum curculio, it ought to control any of the curculio family, such as the hazel curculio, chestnut curculio and butternut curculio.
Here again the cause was not winter injury so much as either the butternut curculio or other causes.
I have been unable to find any sign of curculio injury this year, although I have seen it nearby on some native butternut trees.
The curculio passes the winter in the adult stage under accumulations of partly decayed leaves, among the closely-packed dried grass of sod-covered orchards, and probably wherever suitable protection from the winter may be found.
Is the plum curculio causing much damage to the fruit growing industry of this country?
Of the apricot hybrids only the Hanska made any pretense of trying to bear anything, but the curculio got away with about all of them.
Although the plum curculio has some natural enemies that tend to reduce its numbers somewhat, yet they are not important enough to be considered as effective means of control.
Among the insects are the plum curculio and the plum tree borer, better known as the peach tree borer.
Away back in the early days of horticulture in this country, when the curculio became very abundant rewards were offered for an effective method of combating it.
They are practically curculio proof, and have never been affected with brown rot as have some other varieties.
The curculiohas the habit of falling to the ground and "playing 'possum" when disturbed.
In such cases spraying usually given for other insects, as the codling moth, serves to keep the curculio well under control.
Serious losses from the curculio are almost conclusive evidence of neglect, which is best and most quickly corrected by the adoption of proper orchard practice.
Illustration: The curculioin its stages of growth, and its fruit injury.
This spraying kills many of the germinating spores of such things as apple scab and also is the important spray for codling worm as well as for the plum curculio and for leaf eating insects.
The curculio is a native of North America and for more than 150 years has been known as an enemy of fruits.
The grape-curculio is effectively destroyed by spraying with an arsenical spray in the spring as the beetles appear on the vines and before egg-laying begins.
One is the grape-curculio (Craponius inæqualis), not essentially different from the familiar curculio of the plum and cherry.
The maxims which Palinurus addresses to Phaedromus in the Curculio would probably not have shocked an ancient moralist:-- Nemo hinc prohibet nec vetat Quin quod palamst venale, si argentumst, emas.
Plautus does those of Saturio or Curculio into an imaginary representation of Athenian life.
I had to hand-pollinate the blossoms this spring; this resulted in a rather small percentage of sets; then the curculiotook a rather severe toll, so we will have only a few of each variety.
We are troubled with walnut curculio as well as considerably by squirrels, and by a leaf disorder that often blackens the leaves and causes them to fall in early September, followed by premature dropping of the nuts.
Possibly the curculio is not able to penetrate the thick husk in laying its eggs.
Fodermaier is also more severely affected by the butternut curculio than is the Wright, some years nearly all of the Fodermaier nuts have been destroyed by the curculio.
Gergi, the history of a remarkable insect which he names Curculio anti-odontalgicus.
Gergi, that the Tuscan peasants have long been acquainted with several insects which furnish a charm for the toothache, as the Curculio jaecac, C.
I contemplate using kerosene emulsion oncurculio and insects that I cannot reach with poison.
I think it will destroy the curculioto some extent, and will prevent insects climbing the trees.
The quince curculio is somewhat larger than that infesting the plum and differs in its life-history.
The curculio or fruit worm may be controlled by jarring, as for plums, or by spraying.
The curculio must be captured by jarring on sheets (see Plum).
If thinned before this time, they are so small that it is difficult to pick them off; and it is not so easy to see the work of the curculio and thereby to select the injured fruits.
The adult curculio of the plum and peach is a small snout-beetle that inserts its eggs under the skin of the fruit and then makes a characteristic crescent-shaped cut beneath it.
After we have shaken the curculio beetles off, to be sure the chickens will devour them readily, but then the pest has generally done its work.
This would be the solution of the dreadful curculio question, I believe.
It is not unusual to have every plum, apricot, nectarine or apple on a tree stung in a single day; and in South Jersey the curculio has proved victorious in the struggle with man.
This tree is not bothered by the curculio since the curculio does not infest the large butternut near it.
I mentioned a while ago that this butternut curculio causes quite a bit of concern and also spoke about its being in terminals.
Of course the native butternut is perfectly hardy and prolific but until such time as the butternut curculio ceases to be a major pest we cannot expect to have good crops of them.
Rubbish and vegetation offer hiding places for the insects and, therefore, cultivated orchards are freer from curculiothan those laid down to grass.
It is important to be able to distinguish in wormy cherries the grub of the curculio from the cherry fruit maggot in order to know and understand the nature of the two enemies in combating them.
The cherry fruit maggot is probably responsible for most of the "wormy" cherries in New York but the plum curculio is also a cause of "wormy" fruits and in some seasons is a most formidable pest.
This method will also destroy the plum-curculio in orchards.
Curculio nebulosus is also to be found on them, in places where the turf has been peeled; and some scarce Lepidoptera.
To this genus Curculio Tribulus and quadridens appear to belong.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curculio" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
