https://doi.org/10.2307/3495317 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495317 The contact toxicity of five insecticides against adult male and female sweetpotato weevil ...

Sweet potatoes are susceptible to garden raiders like sweet potato weevils, aphids, whiteflies, wireworms, root-knot ...

Researchers have come up with a sweet potato variety that is resilient to weevils. The crop has been under constant threat from weevils, which have reduced production in the whole of Africa.

Pests such as sweet potato weevils, the sweet potato bug (pictured), leaf miners, vine borers, hornworms, and nematodes are the main culprits. — Forest and Kim Starr photo The reason why?