Sentence Examples

  • Boring grub of a longhorn-beetle or of the saw-fly Sires, with its stumpy vestiges of thoracic legs; the large-headed but entirely legless, fleshy grub of a weevil; and the legless larva, with greatly reduced head, of a bee.
  • Larval " weevils " mostly feed on the roots of plants, but some, such as the nut weevil (Balaninus nucum), live as larvae inside fruit.
  • The boll-weevil, preying on the cotton, is the most noxious of the insects.
  • Mr Cook also found that the boll weevil was attacked, killed and eaten by an ant-like creature, the " kelep."
  • Examination showed that although the weevil attacked the young buds these did not drop off, but that a special growth of tissue inside the bud frequently killed the grub.
 
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