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If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still."

Cato says, the master of a family (patremfamilias) must have in his rustic villa "cellam oleariam, vinariam, dolia multa, uti lubeat caritatem expectare, et rei, et virtuti, et gloriae erit," that is, "an oil and wine cellar, many casks, so that it may be pleasant to expect hard times; it will be for his advantage, and virtue, and glory." I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts of peas with the weevil in them, and on my shelf a little rice, a jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.

Tulliver was, on the whole, a man of safe traditional opinions; but on one or two points he had trusted to his unassisted intellect, and had arrived at several questionable conclusions; amongst the rest, that rats, weevils, and lawyers were created by Old Harry.

Control of the boll weevil by mechanically destroying fallen infested cotton squares.

VINE WEEVIL These beetles can prove devastating to plants, particularly those in pots, but also among strawberry plants.

VINE WEEVIL These beetles can devastate your pot plants and strawberries.

(TAP) -- Tunisia should spare no effort to prevent the introduction of the Red Weevil from Libya, Regional Official in charge of Plant Production and Protection at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Noureddine Nasr said.

The structural differentiation of rostrum in male and female adults of rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae was examined under the light and electron microscopes to understand its functional potential in infestation/ovipositional tactics.

Riyadh, Rajab 6, 1438, Apr 3, 2017, SPA -- Scientific consultations of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) to stop the Red Palm Weevil have concluded in the Italian capital, Rome.

ROME, April 2 (KUNA) -- Eradication of the Red Palm Weevil will be a top priority for the broad cooperation between Kuwait and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) once the latter operates its office in the country, said Director-General Kuwait's Public Authority of Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAF) Faisal Al-Hasawi.

26, 2010, a live adult male weevil was recovered from a secondheavily damaged Canary Island date palm in Laguna Beach.

Thus, unlike to polyvoltine bruchids like Acanthoscelides obtectus SAY and Callosobruchus maculatus (F.), broad bean weevil cannot reproduce and cannot develop in seed storage systems [17].