curculio
Americannoun
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curculios
plural
noun
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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 trees are troubled with canker-worm, tent-caterpillar, root aphis, flathead borer, and woolly aphis; my apples with codling-moth and curculio.
From The Apple by Various
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
We are getting the upper hand of the curculios by the use of cryolite spray but the root-worm beetle problem is still unsolved.
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
Such an one has curculios, borers, knife-worms: a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then a smooth, plausible gentleman, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
Clean cultivation will also do away with many of the curculios, since they depend on unbroken soil in the fall for their metamorphosis.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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