| 单词 | potato stalk weevil |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato stalk weevil potato stalk weevil n. U.S. (now rare) = potato stalk borer n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Curculionidae or genus Curculio > baridius trinotatus (potato-stalk weevil) potato stalk weevil1868 1852 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. (ed. 2) 71 Among the many insects that have been charged with being the cause of the wide-spread pestilence [in Pennsylvania], commonly called potato-rot, there is a kind of weevil that lives in the stalk of the potato.] 1868 Amer. Entomologist Oct. 22/2 The Potato-Stalk Weevil (Baridius trinotatus, Say)... This insect is more peculiarly a southern species. 1887 Nicholson's Dict. Gard. III. 209/1 Still another American beetle that injures Potato crops is the Potato-stalk Weevil (Baridius trinotatus). 1902 F. H. Chittenden Some Insects Injurious to Veg. Crops U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Entomol. Bull. No. 33 11 The potato stalk weevil is also known as the potato stalk borer. 1923 F. H. Chittenden & W. A. Orton Increasing Potato Crop by Spraying (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. 1349) 1 Some of those [insects] which feed in the stalks and tubers, viz, the potato stalk-weevil, the common stalk-borer, [etc.], also are very injurious in certain areas. 1949 Proc. Pennsylvania Acad. Sci. 23 121 It has been shown that about 33% of the ground cherry plants are infested with the potato stalk weevil. 1962 R. Wyniger Pests in Warm Climates §689. 362 (caption) Potato stalk weevil. < as lemmas |
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