Banana stem weevil
The banana stem weevil is a big, black beetle with a long snout. Some are reddish. It lives on banana plants, and its larvae tunnel right through the thick banana stem.
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Fun facts
It is one of the worst pests of banana plants.
It usually comes out at night. In the daytime it only flies when it rains or the sky is cloudy.
A female lays about nine eggs, one each day, tucked into the banana stem.
Before it turns into an adult, the larva wraps itself in a cocoon made of banana fibres.
It takes about 44 days to grow from egg to adult, and it lives for about a year.
Most asked questions about Banana stem weevil
?What does the banana stem weevil eat?
Banana plants. Its larvae tunnel inside the stems.
?How big is the banana stem weevil?
About 23 to 39 millimetres long, quite big for a weevil.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Odoiporus longicollis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Pseudostem weevil, Banana pseudostem borer
Where the facts come from
- Odoiporus longicollis (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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