curculio
Americannoun
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curculios
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of curculio
1750–60; < Latin: weevil, corn worm
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In the 1890s many smaller growers struggled to afford expensive and elaborate controls to combat pests such as San Jose scale and plum curculio.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2023
Plum curculio worms may show up in fruits if the trees are too deep in the ground — so get all the root flares dramatically exposed by removing mulch and soil.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2020
David Riley, a professor of entomology at the University of Georgia, works with vegetable pests like cowpea curculio, which has decimated the state’s black-eye pea fields.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2019
He also controls predation from the plum curculio, a snout beetle that’s a major pest of many fruits, not just plums.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2017
My apples are troubled with codling-moth, curculio, and gouger.
From The Apple by Various
If left to run wild, the butternut curculios are a serious menace to the butternut, the Japanese walnut and the Persian walnut.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
With us, the damage they do is as nothing compared to that caused by the curculios, the strawberry root worm beetles and the leaf hoppers.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Scrobe, skrōb, n. a groove in the rostrum of weevils or curculios, or on the outer side of the mandible.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Our State Experiment Station suggests the use of a cryolite spray as it is more effective against curculios than arsenical sprays and less likely to injure tender walnut foliage.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Weevils and Curculios Weevils and curculios are small, hard-shelled, grayish to brown beetles about 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, with stiff, slender snouts or beaks.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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