apple flea weevil

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• apple flea weevil — noun : a minute dull black weevil (Rhynchaenus pallicornis) that feeds as an adult on the undersurface of apple and cherry leaves, the larvae burrowing and feeding within the leaves …   Useful english dictionary

• flea weevil — noun : any of various small broad weevils that have large eyes and hind legs adapted for leaping and that include some with larvae which are leaf miners on cultivated plants see apple flea weevil …   Useful english dictionary

• coleopteran — /koh lee op teuhr euhn, kol ee /, adj. 1. belonging or pertaining to the order Coleoptera. n. 2. a beetle. [1840 50; COLEOPTER(A) + AN] * * * ▪ insect Introduction   any member of the insect order Coleoptera, consisting of the beetles and weevils …   Universalium

• insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… …   Universalium

• Pest (organism) — A pest is an organism which has characteristics that are regarded by humans as injurious or unwanted. This is most often because it causes damage to agriculture through feeding on crops or parasitising livestock, such as codling moth on apples,… …   Wikipedia