Also, the controlling effect on the rice weevil involves killing rice weevils that are present during a rice polishing step, and also involves blocking rice weevils from infiltrating the rice from the outside.
And the town of Enterprise, Alabama, has even erected a monument to the boll weevil, since that insect’s ravages helped to motivate farmers to cultivate peanuts.
In fact, “lavender oil or powdered foliage and flowers may also be useful as both commercial . . . and domestic pesticides as the application of lavender deters mites, grain weevils, aphids and clothes moth,” reports one study.
Since the red palm weevil arrived on the Arabian Peninsula less than 20 years ago, this small insect has burrowed into thousands of date palms and caused untold damage.
Two varieties are recognized: Tillandsia utriculata subsp. pringlei (S.Watson) C.S.Gardner - eastern Mexico Tillandsia utriculata subsp. utriculata - most of species range Florida populations of Tillandsia utriculata are highly susceptible to attack by the invasive weevil Metamasius callizona, and have been devastated virtually throughout their range.