The greater chestnut weevil hadn’t been definitively seen since the 1990s. Many assumed it was extinct. But not two ...

A scientific super fan honored one of his favorite baseball players by naming a newly discovered, tiny, shiny weevil after him. Entomologist Robert "Bob" Anderson from the Canadian Museum of Nature ...

Hundreds, if not thousands, of weevils were recently found in the area. Hundreds were spotted covering a Telferner store; others blanketed a banana tree. So, what are weevils and are they being ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 102, No. 3 (September 2019), pp. 469-474 (6 pages) Numerous weevil species are serious pests on agricultural crops in the Caribbean basin and the USA. These pests ...

Misidentifying boll weevils caught in pheromone traps could be easier to avoid, thanks to a new DNA fingerprinting method. Misidentifying boll weevils caught in pheromone traps could be easier to ...

The South American palm weevil is a very small bug that has the potential to cause very big problems. Native to Mexico, Central America, and South America, this invasive weevil eats the foliage of ...

Two of these new species are present in Japan: Aphanerostethus magnus (Oo-daruma-kuchikakushi-zoumushi) and Aphanerostethus japonicus (Nippon-daruma-kuchikakushi-zoumushi). One of these, ...

Environmental Science and Informatics Section (OIST) staff member Jake Lewis is working on taxonomy and evolution of weevils. Currently, he is using a wide variety of techniques like microscopy, ...

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Many kinds of human engineering have biological equivalents – the most famous is probably the ball and socket joint, which is found in car steering columns and human arms alike. The newest and ...

Anderson said the weevil is now officially called Sicoderus bautistai. Image of a Sicoderus bautistai. Canadian Museum of Nature A scientific super fan honored one of his favorite baseball players by ...

Jake Lewis, an entomologist in the Environmental Science and Informatics Section at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), is fascinated by weevils, a diverse group of beetles that ...