noun. A snout beetle, especially one that is a pest of fruit trees.

noun. A Linnean genus of weevils or snout-beetles, formerly conterminous with the Curculionidæ, now greatly restricted or disused.

noun. A weevil; particularly, one of the common fruitweevils which work great destruction among plums, and which receive the colloquial name “little Turk,” from the crescent-shaped mark left by their sting. See cut under Conotrachelus.

noun. One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc.

noun. Any of the genus Curculio of weevils.

"The curculio is a native of North America and for more than 150 years has been known as an enemy of fruits."

Hymenoptera  Malathion  Starr  bluebottle  caddis  

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