Silver-green leaf weevil
Phyllobius argentatus
The silver-green leaf weevil is a small, slim beetle covered in shiny metallic green scales. It is a weevil with a short snout. It nibbles little holes in the leaves of many trees.
Lives in
Across Europe, on trees and bushes
Length
3.8 to 6 mm (0.15 to 0.24 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
It eats leaves and flowers of willows, fruit trees, elms, beeches, birches and hazels.
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 Silver-green leaf weevil compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Silver-green leaf 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
Its green colour comes from tiny shiny scales on its wing cases.
2
It likes many kinds of trees, from willows and birches to fruit trees.
3
It bites holes in the leaves of fruit trees and hazelnut bushes, but usually does not do much harm.
you asked
Most asked questions about Silver-green leaf weevil
?Is the silver-green leaf weevil harmful?
It nibbles holes in leaves, but it usually only harms very young trees.
?How big is the silver-green leaf weevil?
About 4 to 6 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phyllobius argentatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Phyllobius argentatus (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 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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