weevil - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • control: What can I do to control adult vine weevil?
  • include: Common pest species include grain weevils, grain beetles, flour beetles and cookie beetles which are all pests of stored food products.
  • see: Now as you carried this rice to the stores, you could see the weevils crawling among it.
  • make: If U make a weevil which hasn't been made, YOU HAVE A WEEVIL!

Preposition: in

  • cookie: If you had the pluck of a weevil in a cookie you would catch them still.

Adjective modifier

  • large: Marshal suSCon CR Granules Controls large pine weevil ( Hylobius abietis ) in forestry.
  • dreaded: The ugly pest was the dreaded vine weevil, the most damaging weevil in horticulture.
  • female: Female rice weevils lay between 300 to 400 eggs, with the life cycle requiring about 32 days for completion.

Modifies a noun

  • larva: Damage to plant roots by vine weevil larvae shows by the plants starting to wilt.
  • grub: The nematode enters the bodies of vine weevil grubs, infecting them with a fatal bacterial disease from its gut.
  • mag: Hello and welcome to issue 2 of the weevil mag.
  • damage: Weevil damage is characterized by ragged holes in the surface of the wood from tunnels running along the grain near the surface.
  • magazine: Hey it's issues 2 of the new weevil magazine!
  • adult: Watch out for nocturnal vine weevil adults that may be emerging to nibble around the edges of leaves in patio pots.

Noun used with modifier

  • vine: Damage to plant roots by vine weevil larvae shows by the plants starting to wilt.
  • boll: Kill th ' boll weevil, snakes, ticks, an ' bean beetles.
  • pine: Marshal suSCon CR Granules Controls large pine weevil ( Hylobius abietis ) in forestry.
  • bean: See our Pea and bean weevil factsheet for further details.
  • grain: Female grain weevils lay from 36 to 254 eggs at a rate of 2-3 a day.
  • rice: Female rice weevils lay between 300 to 400 eggs, with the life cycle requiring about 32 days for completion.

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