weavel

M. O'BRIEN: Yes, pretty much it's a weavel (ph) kind of thing.

CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2006 2006

We have another insect very destructive to the plum, peach, cherry, and apple -- the _curcutio_, or plum weavel.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various

_Dear Sir: _ Replying to your letter dates Oct. 6th the situation here is this: Heavy rains and Boll weavel has caused a loss of about 9,000 bales of cotton which together with seed at the prevailing high prices would have brought $900,000.00 the average crop here being 11,000 bales, but this years 'crop was exceptionally fine and abundant and promised good yeald until the two calamities hit us.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Various