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snout beetle

snout beetle

noun

  1. another name for weevil
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of snout beetle1

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of snout beetle1

C19: so named because of its long proboscis
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He also controls predation from the plum curculio, a snout beetle that’s a major pest of many fruits, not just plums.

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The rest belong to harmful families, such as the Scarab�id�, Elaterid�, and the weevils, or snout beetles.

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The insect is a small, brownish-black snout beetle, somewhat less than one-half inch in length.

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One of these, the butternut snout beetle or curculio, attacks both the butternut and the Japanese walnut.

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Several kinds of nuts are attacked and injured by long-beaked snout beetles or weevils belonging to the genus Balaninus, the chestnut probably being the most seriously damaged.

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