Fie, 18. 
injury by the lentil weevil. 
one lentil weevil matures in a single seed, 
it is capable of practically destroying 
that seed, as indicated by the sectioned 
seeds at the bottom of the illustration. 
Somewhat enlarged. 
18 
Farmers’ Bulletin 1275. 
it has been found attacking cowpeas throughout the Southern States 
and as far north as Iowa and is probably present wherever cowpeas 
Lentils of two varieties showing 
While only 
are grown. The cowpea is its 
favorite host food, although 
peas and beans are attacked 
(see Fig. 17). It is undoubt- 
edly a more serious pest of 
cowpeas than the cowpea 
weevil discussed above because 
it seems to be more hardy. 
Although females may lay 
eges upon the pods in the field, 
it breeds most prolifically in 
seeds in storage, gluing its 
small white eggs to the seeds. 
THE LENTIL WEEVIL." 
The lentil weevil is not 
known to be established in this 
Adult 
weevil with line to left indicating 
Fic. 19.—Mexican bean weevil : 
actual length. Infested bean to 
left showing two emergence holes 
and six eggs. (Chittenden.) 
country at the present time, 
although it has been found re- 
peatedly in imported lentils 
from Europe. It is an enemy 
of the lentil crop in middle 
and southern Europe, Egypt, 
and Syria. While lentil grow- 
ing is on the increase in this 
country, it is hoped to keep 
this pest from becoming estab- 
lished in North America. 
The lentil weevil, only one of 
which matures in a single seed, resembles somewhat the pea weevil 
but is only about an eighth of an inch long. 
bean weevils, it has but one generation a year. 
18 Bruchus lentis Boheman, 
Like the pea and broad- 
Lentils showing the 
