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	weevil weevil common name for certain beetles of the snout beetle family (Curculionidae), small, usually dull-colored, hard-bodied insects. The mouthparts of snout beetles are modified into down-curved snouts, or beaks, adapted for boring into plants; the jaws are at the end of the snout. The bent... Read more
	boll weevil boll weevil or cotton boll weevil , cotton-eating weevil , or snout beetle, Anthonomus grandis. Probably of Mexican or Central American origin, it appeared in Texas about 1892 and spread to most cotton-growing regions of the United States. Over the years the weevil became a significant pest,... Read more
	Weevils weevil common name for certain beetles of the snout beetle family (Curculionidae), small, usually dull-colored, hard-bodied insects. The mouthparts of snout beetles are modified into down-curved snouts, or beaks, adapted for boring into plants; the jaws are at the end of the snout. The bent... Read more
	Black Belt Black Belt term applied to several areas of Mississippi and Alabama, the heart of the Old South, which are characterized by black soil and excellent cotton-growing conditions. The Black Belt area was historically important as the nation's main cotton producer in the mid-1800s. Soil depletion,... Read more
	curculio curculio , name applied to various weevils (members of the snout beetle family, or Curculionidae), especially those that attack fruit. The term is sometimes limited to the acorn and nut weevils of the genus Curculio, characterized by extremely long beaks adapted for boring. The females, whose... Read more
	Leland Ossian Howard Leland Ossian Howard 1857-1950, American entomologist, b. Rockford, Ill., grad. Cornell (B.S., 1877), Ph.D. Georgetown Univ., 1896. Associated with the U.S. Bureau of Entomology from 1878 (as its chief, 1894-1927, and as its principal entomologist until 1931), he influenced economic and medical... Read more
	Peanut butter Peanut Butter Background Wild peanuts originated in Bolivia and northeastern Argentina. The cultivated species, Arachis hypogaea,was grown by Indians in pre-Columbian times. The peanut plant is a vinelike plant whose flowerstalks wither and bow to the ground after... Read more
	bean weevil bean weevil common name for a well-known cosmopolitan species of beetle ( Acanthoscelides obtectus ) that attacks beans and is thought to be native to the United States. It belongs to the family Bruchidae, the seed beetles. The bean weevil is small, about 1/6 in. (0.4 cm) long, and... Read more
	cotton cotton most important of the vegetable fibers, and the plant from which the fiber is harvested. The Cotton Plant The cotton plant belongs to the genus Gossypium of the family Malvaceae ( mallow family). It is generally a shrubby plant having broad three-lobed leaves and seeds in capsules, or... Read more
	beetle beetle common name for insects of the order Coleoptera, which, with more than 300,000 described species, is the largest of the insect orders. Beetles have chewing mouthparts and well-developed antennae. They are characterized by a front pair of hard, opaque, waterproof wings called elytra, which... Read more