Coffee bean weevil
The coffee bean weevil is a small, round brown beetle with a speckled back. Its feelers end in a little club. Even though it is named after coffee, it is happy to munch on more than 100 different kinds of food.
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Fun facts
It is a good flier, even though it is only 3 to 5 millimetres long.
The larva digs a tunnel inside a seed, grows up there, and the new beetle chews a hole to get out.
It has spread around the whole world together with food that people trade and ship.
In the fields it also lays eggs in coffee berries and in the peel of oranges and other citrus fruit.
They hate dry stores. Keeping food dry is the best way to keep these beetles away.
Most asked questions about Coffee bean weevil
?What does the coffee bean weevil eat?
Many kinds of stored food, like corn, nuts, dried fruit, cassava and coffee beans.
?Is the coffee bean weevil dangerous?
No. It cannot hurt people, but it can spoil food in storage.
?How big is a coffee bean weevil?
Only 3 to 5 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Araecerus fasciculatus
- Named by
- DeGeer, 1775
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Anthribidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Anthribidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Araecerus fasciculatus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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