Clay-coloured weevil
Otiorhynchus singularis
The clay-coloured weevil is a small beetle with a short snout, the colour of dry clay. It lives in Europe and nibbles on bushes and trees. Gardeners know it because it munches their currants and raspberries.
Lives in
Europe, in gardens and woods
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It eats buds, shoots and leaves of currants, gooseberries, raspberries, hops, fir and spruce, and sometimes bark.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Clay-coloured weevil about 0.1 km/h (0.06 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Under a fir or spruce it has eaten, you may find bitten-off needles lying on the ground.
2
Its colour and shape can vary, so it is easy to mix it up with other weevils.
3
It is a cousin of the vine weevil, a well-known garden beetle.
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Most asked questions about Clay-coloured weevil
?What does the clay-coloured weevil eat?
Buds, shoots and leaves of currants, raspberries, hops and fir trees.
?Is the clay-coloured weevil dangerous?
Not to people. It only nibbles on plants.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Otiorhynchus singularis
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1767
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Otiorhynchus singularis (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 Janet Graham. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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