South Carolina's peak cotton crop was harvested in 1921 and thereafter, cotton production began a long and steady decline, due in part to the boll weevil and soil erosion.

Prior to World War II, the County was still primarily agricultural ; it had escaped the boll weevil infestation that destroyed cotton crops in Mississippi and other parts of the South.

As the pines were cut and land subsequently cleared, cotton became a staple of the local economy, until cotton was devastated by the Boll weevil in the early 1900s.

Jennings became an important shipping point for the famous Sea Island Cotton, which was white gold before the days of boll weevil.

Cotton was the number one crop for a long time until 1921 when the boll weevil appeared quickly destroying crops and placing the town in to an economic depression which also caused the town to lose its charter.

Cotton declined after 1921, when the boll weevil arrived, but was already being replaced by flue cured tobacco as the primary money crop for farmers.

* Damage from Hypera postica Gyllenhal, the alfalfa weevil, a serious introduced pest of forage, was substantially reduced by the introduction of several natural enemies.

20 years after their introduction the population of weevils in the alfalfa area treated for alfalfa weevil in the Northeastern United States was reduced by 75 percent.

DDT was initially extremely effective, but US weevil populations developed resistance by the mid 1950s.

In 1978 a test was conducted in North Carolina to determine feasibility of eradicating the weevil from the growing areas.

It was first discovered in 1922 in Brazil, and named by an Irishman Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr. An entomologist at New York's Museum of Natural History thought that, because there was not a Latin name or Brazilian name associated with this weevil, it was probably named Zyzzyva as a practical joke to place it in a prominent ending position in many guides and manuals.

He was a member of the " boll weevil " and the Conservative Democratic Forum.

The report was produced as an April Fools ' Day joke in 1957, showing a family in the canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland as they gathered a bumper spaghetti harvest after a mild winter and " virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil ".

* Canterbury knobbed weevil ( Karocolens tuberculatus ), last seen in 1922 until it was rediscovered near Lake Tekapo in December 2004.

While Morgan enjoyed an immense reputation during his lifetime and was awarded the 1940 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, he was sometimes criticised for excessive seriousness, and for some time rather neglected ; he once claimed that the " sense of humour by which we are ruled avoids emotion and vision and grandeur of spirit as a weevil avoids the sun.

His term was marked by crop failures due to the boll weevil.

In 1992 a team consisting of Poinar, his wife, his son Hendrik, and Dr. Raúl J. Cano of California Polytechnic State University successfully extracted insect DNA from a Lebanese weevil in amber that was 125 million years old, but more recent studies of ancient DNA cast doubt on the results.

Today, the village of Penfield is distinguished by the Greek Revival architecture of Old Mercer Chapel, community churches, town cemetery, and Victorian homes that flourished until 1919 when the prosperity built during the " Cotton Era " was ended by the boll weevil.

In 2007, Professor Sallie Sheldon of Middlebury College reported that an aquatic weevil ( Euhrychiopsis lecontei ), which eats nothing but milfoil, was an effective weapon against it.

Traditionally, this was considered a distinct family Scolytidae, but now it is understood that bark beetles are in fact very specialized members of the " true weevil " family ( Curculionidae ).

They were also migrating to escape the lynchings, Jim Crow laws, lack of protected franchise and poor economy of the rural South, where the boll weevil was devastating cotton crops.

* Boll weevil ( politics ), conservative Southern Democrats ( used in the mid-and late-20th century )

Some of the features used to distinguish weevil families are:

The beetles used as biological control agents include two species of leaf beetle: Galerucella calmariensis and Galerucella pusilla, and three species of weevil: Hylobius transversovittatus, Nanophyes breves, and Nanophyes marmoratus.

A tiny weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae, has been used successfully to control giant salvinia.

Although the stem weevil is slightly more effective than the seed weevil when each is used alone, the weevils are most effective if used together and the puncture vine is moisture-stressed.

* Boll weevil ( politics ), an American political term used in the mid-and late-20th century

The nematode species Heterorhabditis indica has been used effectively against the red weevil, Rhinotia haemoptera, an insect pest that can destroy groves and plantations of coconut and migrate to date palms and other palms, causing economic damage to farmers and landscapers.

But, following two devastating fires that destroyed most of the business district coupled with the decline of cotton production after the arrival of the boll weevil, Manor languished throughout most of the remainder of the twentieth century.

The boll weevil infestation has been credited with bringing about economic diversification in the southern US, including the expansion of peanut cropping.

The 1994 election also marked the end of the Conservative Coalition, a bipartisan coalition of conservative Republicans and Democrats ( often referred to as " boll weevil Democrats " for their association with the U. S. South ), which had often managed to control Congressional outcomes since the New Deal era.

Zyzzyva () is a genus of tropical American weevil often found in association with palms.

Ambrosia beetles are beetles of the weevil subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae ( Coleoptera, Curculionidae ), which live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi and probably with bacteria.

The New York weevil ( Ithycerus noveboracensis ) is a species of primitive weevil ; large for weevils ( 12 – 18 mm ), it is covered with fine bristles and has a regular pattern of light and dark spots.

This weevil is found in association with various plants of Fagaceae, Betulaceae, and Juglandaceae, in particular white oak and American beech.

The recent discovery of the red palm weevil ( Rhynchophorus ferrugineus ) in Southern California may pose a threat to many palms, with coastal garden Washingtonia filifera trees already a known host.

The giraffe weevil is sexually dimorphic, with the neck of the male typically being 2 to 3 times the length of that of the female.

Another beetle with a similar common name is the New Zealand giraffe weevil, Lasiorynchus barbicornis.

Along with agave snout weevil larvae, red maguey worms are one of the types of gusanos found in bottles of mezcal liquor from the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

The Monument consists of a statue of a woman holding a pedestal with a boll weevil perched on top.

She raises high a trophy which is topped with a larger than life-size boll weevil.