Large pine weevil
The large pine weevil is a dark brown beetle with a long snout, like a little elephant's trunk. Patches of yellow hair make spots on its back. It loves pine and spruce forests, especially where trees were just cut down.
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Fun facts
It finds freshly cut tree stumps by their smell and lays its eggs there.
It gnaws a ring of bark around a young tree's stem, and that can kill the little tree.
A grown-up can live two or three years, which is long for a beetle.
One mother can lay up to 100 eggs in her life, one or two a day.
In winter it hides in the forest floor and rests until spring.
Most asked questions about Large pine weevil
?Is the large pine weevil dangerous?
Not to people. It is dangerous for young pine and spruce trees, because it eats their bark.
?What does the large pine weevil eat?
The bark of young conifer trees. Its larvae feed under the bark of tree stumps.
?How big is the large pine weevil?
About 1 to 1.3 centimetres long, not counting its snout.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hylobius abietis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Hylobius abietis (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 unknown author. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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