Gold-dust weevil
The gold-dust weevil is a beetle that looks as if someone sprinkled it with glitter. Its grey body is covered in tiny shiny green and golden scales. Like all weevils, it has a long snout with feelers on it.
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Fun facts
Its babies are grubs with no legs that live under the ground.
Grown-up weevils live a long time and keep eating leaves the whole time.
It likes to eat young leaves and the growing tips of plants best.
It eats so many kinds of plants, from cotton and sugarcane to cocoa, that it is a pest in many countries.
Most asked questions about Gold-dust weevil
?Is the gold-dust weevil a pest?
Yes. Both the grubs and the grown-ups eat crops, and they can strip young trees and bushes of their leaves.
?How big is the gold-dust weevil?
It is about 14 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypomeces pulviger
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Green weevil
Where the facts come from
- Hypomeces pulviger (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 Basile Morin. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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