curculio

• “The curculio is a native of North America and for more than 150 years has been known as an enemy of fruits.”

  Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916

• “The chickens will keep the plum trees free from the "curculio,”

  Outdoor Sports and Games

• “The calculations of the "curculio" and "codling moth" are brought to naught by turning hogs into the orchard to eat the stung fruit as it falls, and the larva that depastures upon the leaves of the current and gooseberry is destroyed by syringing the plants with a mixture of soap, salt, and water.”

  The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.

• “The "curculio" alone destroys millions of dollars 'worth of fruit annually.”

  The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.

• “Farmers battled Terran immigrants like tarnished plant bugs, sawflies, wooly aphids, coddling moths, leafrollers, lesser apple worms, and the arch enemy: plum curculio.”

  The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection

• “I have all the green fruit, of every kind, carefully picked up as soon as it falls, thereby destroying many of the curculio as well as the apple-worms.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884

• “After all the experiments made and repellents used for the plum curculio, the jarring method is found the most efficient and reliable, if properly performed.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881

• “Prof.S. had examined the stomachs of many such birds, and particularly of the American robin, and the only curculio he ever found in any of these was a single one in a whole cherry which the bird had bolted entire.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881

• “There is another group of weevils, nearly related to the common plum curculio, the species of which attack immature nuts.”

  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920

• “The curculio catcher, or machine, is run against the tree three or four times, with sufficient force to impart a jarring motion to all its parts.”

  Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.

Show 10 more examples...