Curculio Cupreus

Copper-coloured Weevil. Attacks the leaves and young shoots of the plum and apricot, as well as their fruit. June and July.

Curculio Bacchus

Purple or Apple Weevil. Pierces the fruit of the apple, depositing within it its eggs. June and July.

Curculio Sulcatus

Colour, dull black. Attacks the shoots and leaves of vines in hot-houses in January, and those on walls at the end of May or June. It will also eat the leaves and fruit of the peach. It deposits its eggs just below the surface of the soil, and these not only injure the roots of the vine, but those of the sedum, saxifrage, trollius, auricula, and primrose, detaching the roots from the crowns." - Gard. Chron. See a fuller description of this insect under its modern name of Otyorhincus.

Curculio Alliariae

Stem-boring Weevil. Steel-green colour. Bores the shoots and grafts of young fruit trees. Appears in June and July.

Curculio Pomorum

Apple Weevil. Colour, dark brown. Attacks the blossom of the apple, and often destroys the whole crop. More rarely it attacks the pear blossom. Appears in March and April.

Curculio Pyri

Pear Weevil. Dark brown, very like the apple weevil. April.

Curculio Oblongus

Oblong Weevil. Reddish-brown colour. Feeds on the young leaves of the peach, apricot, plum, pear, and apple. Appears in May.

Curculio Pleurostigma

See Ambury.

Curculio Lineatus

Striped Pea Weevil. Ochreous colour, and striped. Appears in March and April.

Curculio Macularius

Spotted Weevil. Gray colour. April. Also destroys the pea. Soot or lime sprinkled over peas early in the morning before the dew is off from them, and so thickly as to cover the soil about them, would probably save them. To mitigate the attack of the weevils upon trees, the only mode is to spread a sheet beneath them, to shake each branch, and to destroy those beetles which fall. They usually feed at night.

Curculio Nucum

Nut Weevil, of which the maggot is so frequent in our filberts. Mr. Curtis thus describes it: - "The insect is brown, with darker bands; is about a quarter of an inch long, and has a long horny beak, about the middle of which are placed antenna;. When the nut is in a young state the female weevil deposits a single egg. The maggot is hatched in about a fortnight, and continues feeding in the interior of the nut till it is full grown. The nut falls when the maggot has no legs, nor, indeed, has it any use for them, being hatched in the midst of its food; and when the nut remains on the tree, it forces itself out of the hole it eats in the nut, and falls almost immediately to the ground. The only remedy we are aware of is, in the course of the summer to frequently shake the trees, which will cause all the eaten nuts to fall to the ground, when they must be collected and burned." - Gard. Chron.

Curculio picipes is a dull black, and is very injurious in the vinery.

Curculio tenebricosus infests the apricot. Mr. Curtis says, that "every crevice in old garden-walls often swarms with these weevils; and nothing would prove a greater check to their increase than stopping all crevices or holes in walls with mortar, plaster of Paris, or Roman cement, and the interior of hot-houses should be annually washed with lime; the old bark of the vines under which they lurk, should be stripped off early in the spring, and the roots examined in October, when they exhibit any unhealthy symptoms from the attacks of the maggots of Curculio sulcatus.

"When the larvae are ascertained to reside at the base of the wall, salt might be freely sprinkled, which will kill them as readily as it will the maggots in nuts; strong infusions of tobacco-water, aloes, and quassia, are also recommended." - Gard. Chron.