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 ...

Nature keeps male horned weevils from stupid scraps. A horned weevil can’t pick a real fight with a male too big for him because the bigger one can’t get a good grip, according to William G. Eberhard ...

When a fig tree falls in the Panamanian rainforest, it calls an army of strangely shaped insects to war. Known as jousting weevils, these beetles have heads shaped like a knight’s lance, which males ...

The alfalfa weevil is one of Indiana's earliest spring crop pests. Purdue Extension entomologists encourage alfalfa growers to scout their fields for the insect and treat with insecticides where ...

Two geographical populations of Sitophilus oryzae (L.) were obtained: small weevils from the Louisiana State University culture and intermediate-sized weevils from the Kansas State University culture.

If you store grains in your pantry, you've probably had the unfortunate experience of opening a package or jar to find tiny bugs living inside. You're not alone — there are more than 200 species of ...

Root weevils leave scalloping or small semi-circular irregular notches along plant leaf margins. Tracy Wilcox Special to the Washington Post This week, I was weeding my garden and noted considerable ...

The pepper weevil (Anthonomous eugenii Cano) is a destructive invasive insect pest of cultivated peppers in the southeastern United States. Adult pepper weevils feed on fruit and leaf buds and lay ...

A small beetle can cause big losses to bean crops. But a new study has narrowed down the genetic locations of several weevil resistance genes in the common bean. Beans are awesome. They are packed ...

If you manage fields with alfalfa, now is the time to be scouting for alfalfa weevil larvae in northern Indiana. Christian Krupke, Purdue Field Crops Pest Management Specialist, recently said that ...

The bean weevil Bruchidius bimaculatus was found in fruits of 68 of 217 populations of the Medicago truncatula — M. littoralis complex of Israel, Greece, Italy and Spain. Infestation was higher in ...

Greta Bragg stayed as still as possible in the water, moving only to breathe through her snorkel. Raising her hands slowly, she began to scour the leaves of the weeds, one strand at a time. Her target ...