The hybrids yield more flour, but the grains are less resistant to worms and weevils.

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The product also appears to be an effective pesticide against ants, fruit flies, weevils, locusts, and termites, and can also make wood more fire resistant, he added.

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Methods that have been tried in the past include the release of South American weevils that eat the plant, as well as machinery that shreds from the water surface.

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He is scouring the South, trying to enroll at least 80% of the region's 2.6 million unregistered black voters in an effort to unseat "pro-Reagan Democratic Boll Weevils and Republican Reaganites, " in cluding Senators Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Strom Thrumond of South Carolina.

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