Yellow poplar weevil
The yellow poplar weevil is a tiny black beetle with a long snout. It is so small and round that people sometimes mistake it for a tick. Its babies live and eat inside leaves.
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Fun facts
The grown-ups spend the winter hidden in fallen leaves and wake up in late April.
The mother lays her eggs in the middle vein on the underside of a leaf, about 12 to 15 eggs per leaf.
Its larvae are legless white grubs shaped like the letter C.
The larvae tunnel inside the leaf for three to four weeks, then spin reddish brown cocoons there.
It is the only species in its genus.
Most asked questions about Yellow poplar weevil
?Is the yellow poplar weevil a tick?
No. It is a tiny beetle with a snout that only looks a bit like a tick.
?What does the yellow poplar weevil eat?
It eats buds and leaves of yellow-poplar, sassafras and magnolia trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Odontopus calceatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Sassafras mining weevil, Tuliptree leafminer, Tulip tree weevil, Magnolia leaf miner
Where the facts come from
- Odontopus calceatus (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 Lacy L. Hyche, Auburn University, Bugwood.org. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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