Chequered weevil
Liophloeus tessulatus
The chequered weevil is a beetle with a short snout, about one centimetre long. It lives in Europe among wild plants like thistles, ivy and cow parsley. Its babies grow up underground on plant roots.
Lives in
Europe, north to southern Norway, central Sweden and southern Finland, in meadows and hedges
Length
1 cm (0.39 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The grown-ups nibble wild plants like thistles, cow parsley, hogweed, ivy and colt's-foot. The larvae feed on their roots.
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 28 seconds
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Chequered weevil about 0.13 km/h (0.08 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 larvae take two years to grow up on the roots of plants.
2
In lowland places the females can have babies without any males at all.
3
You can find the grown-ups from spring until late summer.
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Most asked questions about Chequered weevil
?What does the chequered weevil eat?
Wild plants such as thistles, cow parsley, hogweed, ivy and colt's-foot.
?How big is the chequered weevil?
It grows up to about 1 centimetre long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Liophloeus tessulatus
- Named by
- Müller, 1776
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Liophloeus tessulatus (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 Sandy Rae. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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