Turbine cylindrical weevil
Larinus turbinatus
Name means: “fat and cone-shaped, after its round body and cone-shaped snout”
The turbine cylindrical weevil is a chunky black weevil with patches of grey hair. It loves warm, sunny meadows full of thistles. Its whole life story happens inside thistle flowers.
Lives in
Southern and central Europe, North Africa and Asia, and now also the United States, in warm meadows with thistles
Length
4 to 9 mm (0.16 to 0.35 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Adults and larvae feed on thistles. The larvae grow up inside the thistle flower heads.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 30 seconds
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Turbine cylindrical weevil about 0.12 km/h (0.07 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
A female lays five or six eggs a day, each one in its own thistle bud.
2
When several larvae share one flower head, the strongest wins, so usually only one is left.
3
Its grey hairs often look yellow because they get covered in pollen.
4
It is busy in the daytime.
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Most asked questions about Turbine cylindrical weevil
?What does the turbine cylindrical weevil eat?
Thistles. Its larvae grow up inside thistle flower heads.
?How big is the turbine cylindrical weevil?
About 4 to 9 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Larinus turbinatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Larinus turbinatus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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