Abberton weevil
The Abberton weevil is a small beetle with a long snout. Its body shines golden red, while its snout and legs are brown. It loves cherry trees and their fruit.
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Fun facts
Its larvae are white with brown heads and grow to about 12 millimetres, longer than the grown-up beetle.
The mother bores a little hole into a fruit and lays her egg inside.
When there are lots of them, the damaged fruit falls off the trees, so orchard owners see it as a pest.
It likes trees of the rose family, which includes cherries, apricots and plums.
Most asked questions about Abberton weevil
?What does the Abberton weevil eat?
The flowers of cherry trees and their relatives. Its larvae eat inside the fruit.
?Is the Abberton weevil harmful?
Not to people, but it can damage cherry harvests when there are many of them.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Rhynchites auratus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Rhynchitidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Rhynchitidae
- Lives on
- Europe
- Also known as
- Apricot weevil, Cherry-fruit weevil, Golden green snout weevil
Where the facts come from
- Rhynchites auratus (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 Udo Schmidt from Deutschland. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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