âThe paucity of humility shown by the Government in the face of such antipathy is stomach-churning.â âLet me start with an apology for the paucity of blogging lately.â âThere's still a paucity of fresh produce in the shops, very little more than a few tired cabbages and exhausted apples to be found.â
A common name for an insect that infests cotton plants is the boll weevil. The adult boll weevils are reddish-brown, gray, or almost black in color and are normally less than 0.24 inches long.
A melaleuca-devouring weevil imported two years ago as a biological control agent has more than satisfied expectations about its appetite for the pest tree. But groups of the 3/8-inch insect, also called a melaleuca snout beetle, are not fanning out very fast in South Florida, said Ted Center, a federal Agricultural Research Service entomologist based in Davie.