Sweetclover weevil
The sweetclover weevil is a small beetle with a short, broad snout. It lives in North American fields where sweetclover and alfalfa grow. Farmers know it well, because it nibbles on their crops.
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Fun facts
It is a broad-nosed weevil, which means its snout is short and wide instead of long and thin.
Its larvae eat the little bumps on the roots of sweetclover and alfalfa, called root nodules.
When the larvae are ready to change into grown-ups, they rest near the top of the soil.
Most asked questions about Sweetclover weevil
?What does the sweetclover weevil eat?
Sweetclover and alfalfa. The larvae eat the little lumps on their roots.
?Is the sweetclover weevil a pest?
Yes, for farmers. It damages sweetclover and alfalfa plants, but it is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sitona cylindricollis
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Sitona cylindricollis (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 Janet Graham. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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