Peach root weevil
Pseudoedophrys hilleri
The peach root weevil is a small beetle with a short snout. It first lived in Japan. Now it has travelled all the way to North America and lives there too.
Lives in
First from Japan, now also in eastern North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot hurt people.
What does it eat?
Like its weevil relatives, it eats plants.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Peach root 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 the only kind of beetle in its group, called Pseudoedophrys.
2
Scientists moved it into its own new group in 2006.
3
It belongs to the broad-nosed weevils, which have a short, wide snout.
you asked
Most asked questions about Peach root weevil
?Where does the peach root weevil come from?
It comes from Japan and now also lives in eastern North America.
?Is the peach root weevil dangerous?
No. It is a small beetle that cannot hurt people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pseudoedophrys hilleri
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Pseudoedophrys (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 Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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