Talk:Weevil

WEEVILS

My wife does not cook very often with flour so she keeps it in a plastic or glass jar yet every time she wants to use it, months after she bought the flour it has tiny weevils and she has to dump it. How do they ever get in there? the jars are well sealed by the lids. Does the flour come with weevils eggs in it? How to prevent this from happening? Thanks!

MERGE

the same family is discribed here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curculionidae

Qualifier

I think the word "some" should be added to the beginning of the sentence: Weevils are destructive to crops.

With 60,000 species, there are probably a lot of weevils that never bother a soul.

One could look into this.

Perhaps we could list some of the specific weevil pests, like root weevils or cotton boll weevils?--Mr Fink 04:53, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Move?

Why was this moved from Weevil? Virtually all the incoming links to that page are for the beetles. 213.249.235.86 13:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

You're right: this should never have been moved. The beetles are clearly the primary meaning of the word "weevil". I'll put it back. --Stemonitis 13:34, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Something needs fixin'

Ugh. I didn't realize the weevil was a plant. :-) For some reason the Rhynchophora link on the Malpighiaceae page is redirecting here. Do we need a disambiguation page - or is there an error on one of the pages? Thanks! --RMann 18:10, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Taxonomic consistency

This page should go by the work as G. Kuschel (1995) as the main guide to weevil taxonomy. This is also what the phylogeny section in the main page goes by. Therefore, Apionidae should not be included as a family, as they are now a subfamily of Brentidae. Also, the seed weevils bruchidae are actually in the 'leaf beetle' group Chrysomelidae, see Bruchinae. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauriec (talk • contribs) 22:36, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

The domestic weevil problem

I have been having a big problem with these too in pasta, rice, cereals, etc. Some had cited putting bay leaves near your dried goods as a solution. There is a useful weevil discussion at the link below for those with an infestation.

http://dearreader.typepad.com/dear/2004/11/how_to_get_rid_.html?cid=87177018#comment-87177018 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.23.43.101 (talk) 22:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Lesser weevil

Lesser of two weevils :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.174.214.122 (talk) 14:42, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

This is one of the notorious mediocre puns of Captain Jack Aubrey, I think. 95.33.126.59 (talk) 11:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

deleted some nonsense

Hi- I deleted the following sentence

"Weevils are commonly known'Bold text' to tazer their pray from nozels in there nose"

Which not only includes three spelling errors, it is also factually, well, nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.33.62 (talk) 12:15, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

What's a Weevil?

While this page does contain much information about weevils, it doesn't make clear (to me, anyway) what a weevil actually is. The taxonomy section informs the reader how to distinguish the different subfamilies of weevil, and the introduction gives a few examples of weevils, great, but nowhere does it tell the reader how to distinguish a weevil from anything else, exactly. Having no knowledge on the subject, I am unqualified to put in this info myself, but I'm hoping someone else can do it. Thanks Granolanifa (talk) 17:57, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

I know, it doesn't even mention the weevils' defining characteristic: that snout.Zhoulikan (talk) 05:10, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Range?

What is the geographic range of weevils? The article could use a note about that. — O'Dea (talk) 04:05, 26 July 2011 (UTC)