Boll weevils plagued the cotton industry throughout much of the Cotton Belt for almost a century before entomologists and producers executed one of the most successful pest eradication programs in the ...

Weevils, belonging to the family Curculionidae, are renowned for their distinctive elongated snouts and specialised mouthparts. These features have evolved through intricate developmental processes ...

Boll weevils plagued the cotton industry throughout much of the Cotton Belt for almost a century before entomologists and producers executed one of the most successful pest eradication programs in the ...

A variety of photonic mechanisms give rise to iridescence and other structural colors in insects. In weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), iridescence is created by the most complex of these ...

For the first time, researchers in Canada have investigated the use of the sterile insect technique for controlling populations of the pepper weevil, Anthonomus eugenii, an economically significant ...

The largest males have bigger weapons, but smaller males have other advantages. Photo by Ummat Somjee When it comes to some members of the insect world, size variations can be mind-boggling. A ...

Rice is at the centre of meals for millions of families, but at the same time, it is one of the most compromised crops once ...

BEAUMONT -- When there's something bugging rice farmers, a large segment of the world's population is likely to find out. Americans eat about 20.5 pounds of rice a year, while globally people annually ...

There are repeat candidates, such as the endangered Canterbury knobbled weevil ( Hadramphus tuberculatus ), as well as new ...