Field experiments show promise. Although it also occurs on Wisconsin and New Jersey beds, it doesn't reach pest status in these areas. But it is a significant pest of highbush blueberries.
Weevils are the most diverse family of any organisms on the planet.
Their unique adaptation of a snout, tipped with chewing mouthparts, along with the typical tanklike beetle body, has enabled their adaptation to feeding on many different plants. They can reach with their rostrum deep into the tissues of flowering plants, feeding and in many cases burying their offspring in these protected niches. Unfortunately for agriculture, these unique characteristics make them very difficult pests in a number of crops. The root weevils, including black vine weevil and strawberry root weevil which attack cranberry, have a very wide host range. But weevils of the genus Anthonomus tend to specialize in their attack on flower buds.