curculios
- plural of curculio.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
In 1946 the part of the chestnut crop that was harvested was infested with the chestnut curculios.
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
The arsenate of lead in the mixture will control the young of leaf eating insects and precocious plum curculios.
