A typically large weevil that feeds on various grasses and grains.
Genus Sphenophorus, subfamily Rhynchophorinae, family Curculionidae: numerous species, including the maize billbug (S. maidis), which can cause serious damage to corn plants and can harm or kill poultry by clamping onto the bird's throat or tongue
Example sentencesExamples
If oblong holes in the leaves are detected and the pest is not found, the damage is probably from billbugs.
Treat both chinch bug and billbug with Dursban.
Billbugs have been reported as serious pests of lawns and other turf areas since the late 1800's
As its name implies, Cruiser Extreme Pak BB / CRW has a higher insecticide rate, which adds control of billbug and corn rootworm.
The endophytes make Turf Alive! lawns invulnerable to webworms, billbugs, armyworms, cutworms, aphids and some weevils.
Definition of billbug in US English:
billbug
nounˈbilˌbəɡ
A typically large weevil that feeds on various grasses and grains.
Genus Sphenophorus, subfamily Rhynchophorinae, family Curculionidae: numerous species, including the maize billbug (S. maidis), which can cause serious damage to corn plants and can harm or kill poultry by clamping onto the bird's throat or tongue
Example sentencesExamples
Treat both chinch bug and billbug with Dursban.
The endophytes make Turf Alive! lawns invulnerable to webworms, billbugs, armyworms, cutworms, aphids and some weevils.
If oblong holes in the leaves are detected and the pest is not found, the damage is probably from billbugs.
As its name implies, Cruiser Extreme Pak BB / CRW has a higher insecticide rate, which adds control of billbug and corn rootworm.
Billbugs have been reported as serious pests of lawns and other turf areas since the late 1800's