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Weevils provide various ecosystem services such as pollination and decomposition, but some species are serious pests known to decimate crop fields and timber forests. Using x-ray microtomography ...
Jake Lewis, an entomologist in the Environmental Science and Informatics Section at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), is fascinated by weevils, a diverse group of beetles that ...
There are thousands of weevil species, with the common household ones often categorized based on the type of food they invade—rice weevils, maize weevils, and granary weevils, for example.
Research into the chemical ecology of pheromones in weevil species has significantly enriched our understanding of insect communication and behaviour. Pheromones, the chemical signals used to ...
On Wednesday, the Minnesota DNR released around 1,000 spotted knapweed weevils in the General Andrews State Forest. The goal is to help control invasive species without using herbicides or mowing.
The tiny green-and-gold invasive species can take down 36-metre trees in just a few years. The beech leaf-mining weevil isn't very big at only two millimetres in length. But Acadia University ...