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a beetle with a face like a snorkel that ate empires of grain.
means A weevil is a small beetle distinguished by a long snout, many species of which are crop and stored-grain pests.
from From Old English 'wifel,' a beetle, with cousins across the Germanic languages — Old High German 'wibil,' and likely tied to an old root meaning 'to move briskly' or 'scurry,' the same restless sense that may underlie 'weave.' So the name began as 'the little scurrier,' centuries before anyone watched it scurry through the granary.
- snout
- That long nose is called a rostrum, with jaws on the tip
- egg drill
- Females bore holes to plant eggs inside seeds
- war hero
- Alabama built a statue honoring the crop-wrecking boll weevil
- species count
- Over 97,000 known kinds, one of nature's biggest families
- hardtack guest
- Sailors ate weevil-riddled biscuits for centuries at sea
for instance
boll weevil — destroyed 90% of cotton crops in alabama in the 1920s
lesser grain borer — weevil species that infests stored wheat and grain worldwide
diamond back weevil — devastates sugarcane crops in caribbean and australia