Acorn weevil
The acorn weevil is a small beetle with a super long, thin snout. The female's snout is as long as her whole body or even longer. She uses it like a drill to make holes in acorns, and her babies grow up inside them.
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Fun facts
The male's snout is shorter, only about two thirds as long as the female's.
After the female lays her eggs, the acorn heals the little hole and keeps the eggs safe inside.
When the acorn falls to the ground, the larva crawls out and digs into the soil.
The larva can stay in the soil for one to two years and does not freeze in winter.
In some years it ruins most of the acorns, so they cannot grow into new oak trees.
Most asked questions about Acorn weevil
?Is the acorn weevil harmful?
Not to people. It only damages acorns, because its larvae eat them.
?Why does the acorn weevil have such a long snout?
It uses the snout to drill holes into acorns, where it lays its eggs.
?How big is an acorn weevil?
It is only about 4 to 8 millimetres long, not counting the snout.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Curculio glandium
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Curculio glandium (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Elke Freese. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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