Remarkable Providences
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Remarkable Providences, essay by
Increase Mather, published in 1684 under the title
An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences. It is based on a manuscript of 1658, containing accounts of extraordinary interpositions of Providence in human affairs, gathered by Puritan ministers in England and Ireland. The manuscript found its way to Boston, where it was discovered by Mather, who added further instances of providential events, collected by New England ministers. To this compilation he added his own observations, comments, and speculations, as well as similar information culled from other books. Although lacking any critical inspection of testimony, the work was intended to be scientific proof of the presence of supernatural forces in the world.
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Wild-bean protein wipes out weevils.
Magazine article from: Science News; 4/16/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...protein found in some wild beans but absent from common...against an important bean pest, new research...beetles called bean weevils. In contrast, the...arcelin is highly toxic to bean weevil larvae. The tiny weevils, members of the family...usually lay their eggs in ...
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Bean weevils get a kick out of mates.(violent mating ritual)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/21/2000; 480 words
; ...description of the domestic life of the bean weevil, say British researchers. These...that a female will mate with any weevil after she has mated him, say Helen...longer and caused more injury. Bean weevils, conclude the researchers, represent...
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Agriculture: Shaking Beans to Foil Weevils
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/19/1991; ; 413 words
; ...will simply shake their beans. Beans are a crucial source...wily and industrious bean weevil. In its half-millimeter...Nature, it takes the weevils "24 to 48 hours of nearly...surface - such as another bean or the side of a container...effect by jostling the beans once in a ...
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Bean Gene Wards Off Weevils
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/18/1988; ; 538 words
; ...making the bean resistant to the weevils that often destroy much of...potential usefulness. The bean gene carries the genetic code...tests, not to rats fed the beans cooked. Thomas C. Osborn...mechanism by which the wild beans protect their seeds from destruction...produced a variety of ...
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Australia Develops Weevil-Resistant Peas
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 5/28/1998; 412 words
; ...99.5 percent resistant to weevil attack, no insecticide required...found in the common kidney bean which has a natural resistance to those seed-eating weevils. "This gene produces a protein...digestion of seed contents by weevil larvae, so they don't grow and develop into adults." "Weevils ...
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Variation among accessions of Pisum fulvum for resistance to pea weevil. (Plant Genetic Resources).
Magazine article from: Crop Science; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...respond to the presence of pea weevil eggs on pods by forming callus...responsible for a lower rate of weevil infested seed (62.2...resistance to Callosobruchus weevils (Shade et al., 1994) and...amylase inhibitor in seeds of bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L...amylase and thus prevents weevil ...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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FIXIT; Strawberry root weevils look like large ticks.(VARIETY)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 8/9/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...re seeing strawberry root weevils. They look like ticks, are...short snout. Strawberry root weevils enter homes starting in July...two months. Once inside, weevils often are found on ceilings...curled up and look a bit like beans in a garden. The leaves used...
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 "Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales)")
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See no weevil.(News)
Newspaper article from: Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales); 8/22/2004; 700+ words
; ...most likely to be the vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus). If vine weevil invade your pots, eating their...epimedium and bergenia. Adult weevils chomp away, leaving irregular...torchlight, picking off the weevil. Smear Vaseline around the...fruit ripens. Earth up French beans to the bottom ...
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 "Taos News (Taos, NM)")
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TAOS COUNTY CROPS RECOVERING FROM EARLY FROST, ALFALFA WEEVIL.(News)
Newspaper article from: Taos News (Taos, NM); 6/28/2007; 700+ words
; ...time harvest. Additional troubles this spring with the alfalfa weevil were able to be mitigated, he said. "Most of that was controlled...affected a few of her crops, including tomatoes and green beans, but shouldn't hurt them in the long run. "It wasn't...
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Beans bring a second success for top growers
Newspaper article from: Yorkshire Post; 12/4/2004; 700+ words
; ...Oakenshaw, near Wakefield. The beans are sown in February-March...sprayed twice against pea and bean weevil followed by a fungicide spay...of September. This year the beans yielded two tonnes per acre...when the couple won the edible bean championship in the competition...
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bean weevil
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the seed beetles. The bean weevil is small, about 1/6 in...chewed by the female into stored beans or into pods in the field...newly hatched larvae in one bean. When full-grown, the larvae...available food left in the beans and a warm temperature. The...deg;C) for two hours. Bean ...
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weevil
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...boll weevil , the most serious weevil pest in the United States. The seed weevils, including the bean weevil , are not true weevils, but boring beetles of another...leguminous crops, such as peas and beans. Weevils cause millions of dollars...
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Bruchidae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
Bruchidae ( seed weevils ; class Insecta , order Coleoptera ) Family of small, compact...are 1200 species. They are also known, incorrectly, as pea weevils and bean weevils (see CURCULIONIDAE ).
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Curculionidae
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
Curculionidae ( weevils , snout beetles ; subclass Pterygota , order Coleoptera...pests (e.g. Anthonomus grandis , the cotton boll weevil, and Sitona lineatus , the bean weevil or pea weevil). There are 60 000 species, making it the largest...
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Sitona lineatus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
Sitona lineatus ( bean weevil , pea weevil ) See CURCULIONIDAE ; BRUCHIDAE .
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