Weevil Articles & Analysis
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The maize weevil (MW), Sitophilus zeamais (Motsch.), is an important pest of stored maize (Zea mays L.) in tropical areas. ...
Burning had a significant albeit variable impact on abundance of alfalfa plant bugs, lygus bugs, aphids, and leafhoppers but not on abundance of alfalfa weevil. The lack of effectiveness of the burning treatments on forage yield and adverse environmental consequences of burning such as air pollution, hazardous loss of visibility during burning operations, and loss of crop cover ...
Small plantlets purchased to replace non-productive palms and plantations infested with the red weevil, fetch high prices. This continuous demand has resulted in various Saudi public research initiatives to establish micropropagation protocols for the elite date palm varieties of Saudi Arabia. ...