One weevil, the plum curculio damages my cherries and plums every year. Now some other weevil is destroying my ornamental shrubs in front of the house (see image).
I've also heard of many other weevil pests--cotton boll weevil, bean weevil, those ones that show up in flour.
Is the whole weevil family bad news? Does anyone know of any beneficial or at least just neutral weevils? Or are they all trouble?
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Weevil on dogwood
Weeds are just plants with enough surplus will to live to withstand normal levels of gardening!--Alexandra Petri
i think there are too many different weevils to make sweeping statements. the figure i’ve heard is that if you layed out 1 member of every animal species in the world, every fifth one would be a beetle…and half of those would be weevils. Curculionidae is a huge family - something like 83,000 species.
just as some attack plants we want things from, some attack others - i know some weevils have been used as biological controls for thistles, among other things.
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