Obscure root weevil
The obscure root weevil is a small grey or brown beetle with a wavy line across its back. It has a short snout, and its feelers bend in the middle like little elbows. It comes out at night to munch on leaves.
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Fun facts
Most weevils like it hide in the soil during the day, but this one often stays up in the leaves.
One female can lay up to a hundred eggs, in folded leaves or in the soil.
As soon as the young ones hatch, they crawl down into the soil to eat roots.
Gardeners in the Pacific Northwest see it as a pest, because it nibbles rhododendrons and strawberries.
Most asked questions about Obscure root weevil
?Is the obscure root weevil harmful?
Not to people. It can damage garden plants like rhododendrons and strawberries.
?When is the obscure root weevil active?
At night. That is when it climbs up and eats leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sciopithes obscurus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Sciopithes obscurus (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 Cougroyalty. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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