Elongated bean weevil
Lixus pulverulentus
The elongated bean weevil is a long, narrow weevil that looks as if it has been dusted with yellowish brown powder. Like all weevils, it has a long snout. It is quite rare, but lives in many countries.
Lives in
Southern and central Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and across to Iran
Length
1.1 to 1.8 cm (0.41 to 0.69 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people.
What does it eat?
Its larvae live inside the stems of plants like hollyhocks, mallows, thistles and broad beans, and eat them from the inside.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 3 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 21 seconds
How big is Elongated bean weevil compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Elongated bean weevil about 0.17 km/h (0.11 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
Its larvae grow up hidden inside plant stems and also change into beetles there.
2
In winter the beetles rest inside dry plant stems or in the soil.
3
It used to live in Britain, but it no longer breeds there.
4
The beetles come out in April and are seen most in May and June.
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Most asked questions about Elongated bean weevil
?What does the elongated bean weevil eat?
Its larvae eat the inside of mallow, thistle and bean stems.
?How big is the elongated bean weevil?
About 1 to 1.7 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lixus pulverulentus
- Named by
- Scopoli, 1763
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Lixus pulverulentus (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 Alvesgaspar. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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