After the eggs are deposited in the developing acorn, the tree heals the hole, protecting the egg and the young weevil from predators and parasitoids. Once the larvae hatch, they eat the fruit within ...

in 324 m2 banana plots (cv Atwalira) that had been established 18 months earlier and maintained relatively free of weevils. Two weeks after release, entire mats were removed and examined for weevil ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3495128 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495128 Larvae of 5 weevil species attack the roots of citrus trees in Florida. Since 1932 ...