Wavy flower weevil
Madarellus undulatus
The wavy flower weevil is a tiny beetle with a snout. Its head is brown and its body is black or sometimes reddish. The part behind its head is shiny.
Lives in
Southern Canada and the United States
Length
2.8 to 4.5 mm (0.11 to 0.18 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is tiny and does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Its babies feed on poison ivy and Virginia creeper plants.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 40 seconds
How big is Wavy flower weevil compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Wavy flower weevil about 0.09 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 2.8 to 4.5 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
2
Its babies eat poison ivy, a plant that makes people's skin itch if they touch it.
3
Its wing cases have neat grooves running along them.
you asked
Most asked questions about Wavy flower weevil
?How big is the wavy flower weevil?
It is about 3 to 4.5 millimetres long.
?What does the wavy flower weevil eat?
Its babies feed on poison ivy and Virginia creeper.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Madarellus undulatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Madarellus undulatus (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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