curculio
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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, roundhead borer, and leaf-crumpler, and my apples with codling-moth and curculio.
From The Apple by Various
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
Lead arsenate, 4 pounds per 100 gallons of water, has been relied upon in the past for control of various nut curculios.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association
It is usually almost impossible to secure fruits from one or two isolated apricot trees, because the curculios will take them all.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
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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