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the weevils
noun
Any of several small herbivorous beetles in the superfamily Curculionoidea. Many of them have a distinctive snout.
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He needs to talk with the Weevils first -- something about a glove.
Of primary importance are the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) and the weevils and their relatives (Curculionoidea).
Various kinds of algae, fungi, lichens, liverworts, mosses, and diatoms develop on the backs of the weevils.
Plant spores, which may be carried from one weevil to another either by the mites during mating of the weevils or by air dispersal, are trapped with a sticky fluid that may be produced by the weevils for this purpose.
So far, there's only been fleeting mention of the Rift, no activity from it, and a single line about the Weevils.
The treatment didn't kill the weevils, but it sterilised them: there was no second generation of larvae to continue the devastation.
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By almost all accounts, the weevil program has been a remarkable success.
It is not clear exactly why the weevil evolved to have the screw-and-nut system.
Though it arrived only in the late 1980's, the weevil, Metamasius callizona, has already devastated the tillandsias of South Florida.
The government and the cotton industry say the weevil has disappeared in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and parts of the Southwest, and further spraying is considered unnecessary.
"We're driving the weevil back down to Mexico, where he's from, and everybody benefits," said Dr. McCarty, the cotton expert.
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