"weevils" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to small beetle-like insects such as rice or flour weevils. Example sentence: I found weevils living in my pantry, so now I'm forced to throw away all the contaminated food.
Together they form a planetary defence team capable of fending off marauding aliens and giant flying space weevils unleashed on midtown Manhattan by a demi-god with daddy issues and an inter-dimensional portal.
But given the possibility of substantial defections from the right of his own party, Mr Bush will need more than a few boll weevils to help him.On the face of it, he has two advantages in seeking to peel off Democrats.
The third exhibit looks as if it had been attacked by metal-eating weevils.
Even Mr Reagan, who forged a huge majority, was buoyed by the support of so-called "boll weevils" (dissident southern Democrats).
Weevils also are diverse in habits.
These groups are sometimes considered as superfamilies or series and sometimes (particularly weevils and relatives) considered as suborders.
In the spring, adult boll weevils emerge from a partly dormant state, and their light yellow colour changes to gray or black over several weeks.
The encroaching water hyacinth on the surface of Lake Victoria threatened this fishery in the 1990s, although this nuisance was countered by several strategies, including the introduction of weevils into the environment.
Of primary importance are the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) and the weevils and their relatives (Curculionoidea).
The latter, which contains about 90 percent of the beetles, includes a number of groups (e.g., clavicorns, serricorns, lamellicorns, phytophagous beetles, and weevils).
An association of a different type involving beetles in the mountains of New Guinea is known; called epizoic symbiosis, the association occurs on the backs of large leaf-feeding weevils found on Nothofagus and other trees in the moss forests.
