Pale green weevil
Polydrusus impressifrons
The pale green weevil is a tiny beetle with a short, broad nose. It is a soft pale green-blue colour, with a pattern of lines and dots on its back. It comes from Europe but now lives in North America too.
Lives in
Europe, and brought to North America in the early 1900s
Length
3.8 to 5.6 mm (0.15 to 0.22 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It eats the leaves of fruit trees and other leafy trees.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 36 seconds
How big is Pale green weevil compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Pale green 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
It is only about 4 to 5.5 millimetres long.
2
It looks like its cousin the green leaf weevil, but it is smaller and lighter with a broader head.
3
It arrived in North America in the early 20th century.
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Most asked questions about Pale green weevil
?What does the pale green weevil eat?
It feeds on fruit trees and other leafy trees.
?How big is the pale green weevil?
It is only about 4 to 5.5 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polydrusus impressifrons
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
- Also known as
- Leaf weevil
Where the facts come from
- Polydrusus impressifrons (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 Aiwok. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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