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He also controls predation from the plum curculio, a snout beetle that’s a major pest of many fruits, not just plums.

The rest belong to harmful families, such as the Scarab�id�, Elaterid�, and the weevils, or snout beetles.

The insect is a small, brownish-black snout beetle, somewhat less than one-half inch in length.

One of these, the butternut snout beetle or curculio, attacks both the butternut and the Japanese walnut.

Several kinds of nuts are attacked and injured by long-beaked snout beetles or weevils belonging to the genus Balaninus, the chestnut probably being the most seriously damaged.