Bearded weevil
The bearded weevil is a big black beetle with a very long snout. The males have long reddish gold hairs on their snout that look like a beard or a bottle brush. It is probably the third biggest weevil in the world.
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Fun facts
It can be up to 4 centimetres long, and that is without counting its snout.
Some males stay small and look just like females.
Its front legs have big sharp teeth on the inner side.
Its long feelers bend in the middle like an elbow.
Most asked questions about Bearded weevil
?Why is it called the bearded weevil?
Because the males have long reddish gold hairs on their snout, like a beard.
?How big is the bearded weevil?
It is 11 to 40 millimetres long without its snout, which makes it one of the biggest weevils.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Rhinostomus barbirostris
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Dryophthoridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Dryophthoridae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Bottlebrush weevil
Where the facts come from
- Rhinostomus barbirostris (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 (c) Jacob Saucier, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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