What is the South American Palm Weevil? The South American palm weevil (SAPW), known to scientists as Rhynchophorus palmarum, is an invasive beetle that has been detected infesting palm trees in San ...

A weevil species has been released into the Crocodile River in Hartbeespoort to control the spread of the common salvinia, an invasive alien aquatic plant. Common salvinia, native to South America, ...

Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa's Crocodile River. Those weevils aren't tossed into the river by ...

Community members fish along the Hartbeespoort Dam in South Africa, on March 17, 2025, near Hyacinth plants in the water. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) ...

HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa (AP) — Dozens of tiny black weevils cling onto a fern plant as it is tossed onto a leafy green mat coating the surface of South Africa’s Crocodile River.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. South Africa is unleashing weevil beetles in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of salvinia minima, an ...

The Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation (ABWEF) board of directors authorized the distribution of a $1 per acre cash rebate to growers for reported 2024 cotton acres registered with the ...

Today the researchers and environment officials are aiming to fight back with little black beetles called weevils. They're being hurled in the dam so the weevils and their larvae can munch their ...

While it has a cute snoot, a rice weevil is a stowaway. It sneaks into your pantry as an egg that its mom laid inside a single grain of rice. Once it hatches, it turns your rice into its new home.

The Diaprepes root weevil is a large, colorful weevil, 3/8 to 3/4 inch (10 to 19 mm) long, with nurmerous forms, or morphs, ranging from gray to yellow to orange and black. Because of its broad host ...