Smith: "Would chestnuts stand carbon bisulphide for getting the weevil out, or is the hot water treatment better?
The weevil (curculio) was bad enough last year so we are spraying this year.
This colony habit is also true of the hickory nut weevil--the hickory weevil makes the Taylor tree a colony house, whereas I haven't found a single weevil in nuts of the adjoining hickory tree that has its branches interwining.
Probably the most serious enemy of Juglans, in Connecticut at least, is the walnut weevil or curculio, Conotrachelus juglandis LeC.
The Life History of the Walnut Weevil or Curculio.
These chinquapins bear full crops, heavy crops, and one will almost never find a chestnut weevil in the nuts.
Ultimately the boll weevil may do more good than harm by bringing into the market a type of cotton plant that ripens very early.
Close by them lay a single weevil (Anthonomus Pomorum), but in so deep a sleep that at first I thought it dead.
A pair in each of the twelve segments of the body are found in the grub of another weevil (Hypera Rumicis Germ.
Thus the larvae of some Coleoptera, as the weevil tribes (Curculio L.
It is probable that the Rhyncophorous or weevil tribe in general chiefly use their beaks for the purpose of depositing their eggs in different vegetable substances, and perhaps principally in fruit or grain.
The next most common figure is that more or less oblong or oval one, sometimes approaching to conical, found in many of the larvae usually called grubs; such as those of the weevil (Curculio L.
The organ we are first to consider has usually been denominated Rostrum: but since that term is likewise in general use for the snout of insects of the weevil tribes (Curculio L.
The illustrious traveller Humboldt found in South America a species of weevil (Cryptorhynchus Spiculator Humb.
Of a substance apparently nearly similar is composed the cocoon of a weevil related to Liparus Pini; which with its inhabitant was given me by the ingenious Mr. Bullock.
That of theweevil of the common water-hemlock (Lixus paraplecticus F.
As to shape, the maxillary palpi, as well as the labial, are usually filiform; but in the weeviltribes (Curculio L.
Hymenoptera; some Coleoptera, as certain of the weevil tribe (Hypera Arator, Rumicis Germ.
Instances of this position of the eyes occur in a minuteweevil (Ramphus Clairv.
In the second place, there was a reorganization of agriculture behind the boll-weevil ravage, which required a smaller number of laborers a hundred acres.
The floods and boll-weevil pests had, in many cases, either destroyed crops, or rendered the raising of them totally impossible, and in consequence had practically destroyed the very means of subsistence of the Negroes.
In the first place the opportunities afforded Negroes to earn their subsistence were greatly curtailed by the boll-weevil pest which swept over the State a few years ago.
When the boll-weevil pest came and made the raising of cotton an impossibility, it became necessary to shift from the cotton crop to another which was not liable to be troubled by the weevil pests.
I kep' on farmin' 'till de boll weevil hit dese parts and den I quit de farm and went to public work.
The strawberry weevil has been especially injurious around the vicinity of Hopkins the past summer.
The writer will be glad to co-operate with the growers, if they find the presence of the weevil in their strawberry beds.
The weevil not only injures the cultivated strawberry, but is found to attack the buds of the red raspberry, dewberry and wild strawberry.
Illustration: Showing beetle of strawberry weeviland the damage it inflicts.
The weevil appears as soon as the buds begin to form and soon after deposits an egg within the bud.
He said, that with respect to the Hessian fly they had no apprehension, but it was the weevil they alluded to.
Never so long as ship's biscuits continue to buckle the jack-knives of British seafarers will there be another weevil like Mnemosyne.
She was a weevil and I found her in my ship's biscuit.
Another weevil was Bertie, who belonged to the second engineer, but he was caught pilfering the skipper's private supply of fresh butter, which he kept in a jar in his bunk and was very jealous of, so Bertie had to be made away with.
Grain is taken out of store to be cleaned, when the weevil begins to damage it.
When this is apparent the grain should be laid out in the sun and bowls of water placed nearby and the weevil will swarm on this water and drown themselves.
The walls and the floors should be plastered with a stucco of marble dust or at least with a mixture of clay and chaff and amurca, for amurca will serve to keep out mice and weevil and will make the grain solid and heavy.
The appropriations to the Department of Agriculture had been made for the extermination or circumvention of the boll weevil and could not be used for purely educational work in States where the weevil had not appeared.
The small chestnut weevil appears as an adult over a period of about 6 weeks beginning near the first of May in the vicinity of Beltsville, Md.
If and when the weevil moves in I will have the equipment on hand to spray, using the same equipment on peaches or pecans.
If you are not equipped to spray, you can reduce weevil injury about 50 percent by jarring the limbs of the trees lightly and gathering the weevils on a sheet during the period of emergence.
In long voyages the biscuit sometimes so swarms with the weevil and another beetle (Dermestes paniceus, L.
A splendid beetle of the weevil tribe (Rynchites Bacchus) bores with its rostrum through the half-grown fruit into the soft stone, and there deposits an egg.
Even the clover-weevil is not secure within the legumen of that plant; nor the wire-worm in the earth, from their ichneumonidan foes.
Almost as much damage is sometimes occasioned by a little weevil (Ceutorhynchus contractus) which in the same manner pierces a hole in the cuticle.
I refer to the common native chestnutweevil (Balaninus carytripes, Boheman).
This leads me to think that whoever attempts to cut off native chestnut forests, with the expectation of renewal with the larger varieties, by grafting the sprouts, will find the chestnut weevil a rather formidable enemy.
European varieties of the filbert produced in my grounds I have never found one infested by a weevil or other insect.
The eventual possession of the country may become a matter of private treaty between your Court and mine, but I will give you the word of the Czar that if for any reason we should desire to occupy it you shall have a quid pro quo.
He has been prosperous up from slavery, until the boll weevil made its appearance on his farm and the depression came on the country at large, in 1929.
I never see them dese days but I'd rather have them than dis boll weevil I's pestered wid.
Even a few of the weevil tribes are to be met with in water.
Thus, supposing you are acquainted with that common weevil Cionus Scrophulariae, and find its near relation C.
The Form were following Mr. Weevil so closely that they could only murmur an assent.
Mr. Weevil was there a minute since, as large as life and twice as natural.
But what can he want with Mr. Weevil, and what can Weevil want with him?
Mr. Weevil paced up and down the room with his arms behind him.
You twitted me just now about forgetting things, but we've both forgotten something--Weevil and Zuker.
Mr. Weevil did not at once answer, but took two or three more turns across the room.
By the stern decree of Mr. Weevil he had been turned from his bed, and was at that moment a prisoner, in solitary confinement.
Having done this, he took up a sheet of foolscap, on which was written, in the form of a petition, the resolution of the Fifth calling upon Mr. Weevil to expel Percival from Garside.
I should be sorry to think that Mr. Weevil has anything to do with a traitor to his country; but there must be something at the bottom of it all.
It contained references to Zuker and Mr. Weevil which might cause no end of mischief were it to get into the wrong hands.
My father first met her when he used to give lessons in German and French--he knows three or four languages--at the school where Mr. Weevilwas master before he came here.
Paul took the letter from the rack as Mr. Weevilturned to his books.
When they reached the school, they found Mr. Weevilawaiting them in the hall.
The weevil is found throughout the range of eastern white pine.
Keeping shade trees in a vigorous condition by proper watering and fertilization helps reduce their susceptibility to weevil attack.
This is possible because the female weevil will only lay eggs within a rather narrow range of temperature and relative humidity.
The weevil has become such a problem in some areas that it prohibits the growing of white pine.
In the South there are two peaks in adult weevil population each year; the first occurs in the early spring (March-May) followed by a second somewhat lower peak in July and August.
The pitch-eating weevil exhibits a population trend similar to that of the pales weevil, and is a threat mostly in early spring and in the fall.
The small irregular feeding patches in the bark are characteristic of weevil damage.
This snout beetle is very similar to the white pine weevil both in appearance and habits.
Small holes scattered over the bark are characteristic of white pine weevil attacks.
American weevil which is very destructive to plums, nectarines, cherries, and many other stone fruits.
These nuts have thicker shells than other chestnuts, are much less subject to attacks of the chestnut weevil and preserve their fresh and inviting appearance longer when gathered.
Collect all the nuts, and you collect all of the weevil larvae.
You can pick out the weevil chestnuts fairly well if you toss all of the nuts into a cup of water and pick out the ones that float.
It was one of the prettiest of all hybrids and stood up about the longest, but it had too much bitterness in the pellicle encasing the kernel and was much subject to weevil injury.
Blight injury to the trees and weevil damage to the nuts seemed to be the most serious enemies of chestnuts.
It bears fairly well while young, but soon develops faulty nuts, few being well-filled and the majority weevil infested.
The little weevil is found in there and not always apparent.
An examination in 1944 of many unopened chestnut burs disclosed the fact that eggs of the small chestnut weevil were being deposited many weeks before the burs would open.
This habit of the small weevil complicates control measures, as one season's spraying with DDT does not reduce the entire infestation of weevils.
The small chestnut weevil completes its life cycle in two years, and a small percentage requires three years, whereas the large chestnut weevil completes its transformation from egg to adult in one year.
We have found in storage that weevils get in these seeds, but the weevil doesn't destroy the carbohydrates, and the weevil will only pierce the seed and make a hole in it.
Several species of borers are found attacking the trunks, the twig girdler severing the tips of twigs, the shuck worm and case-bearer affecting the husk, and the pecan weevil affecting the nuts.
In other words, the seed was taken from the orchard, treated to kill the weevil and put in the ground in the fall.
The greater number of these insects were of the species Diodyrhynchus byturoides, a weevil which destroys the staminate blossoms of coniferous trees.
Howell (1907) found a cotton-boll weevil in one stomach from Texas; E.
To the terrible utilitarian, a bushel of peas preserved from the weevil is of more importance than a volume of observations which bring no immediate profit.
The weevil was of the same opinion as man, and without entirely forgetting the bean and the vetch it established the greater part of its tribe upon the pea, which from century to century was more widely cultivated.
But it has reached us without the company of its licensed consumer; for there must assuredly be a weevil in its native country which levies tribute on its nourishing tissues.
In order to escape from the pea the slayer of the weevil makes an opening in the centre of the circular trap-door which the grub of the weevil prepared in view of its future deliverance.
That is how the pea-weevil would behave under similar conditions.
All through the season, until both crops are exhausted, I repeat my search almost daily; but I can never discover a single pod infested, nor even a single weevil perching on leaf or flower.
I have often found ourweevil in such a winter refuge.
To judge by appearances, then, the weevilinvades the granary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weevil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crab; flea; insect; jigger; louse; mite; nit; parasite; roach
