Pea weevil
The pea weevil is a tiny beetle with a short snout. Its back is covered in little coloured scales that make neat stripes. It nibbles the leaves of peas and beans.
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Fun facts
Its babies hatch in the soil and eat the tiny root bumps that help pea plants grow.
In winter the grown-up beetles hide at the edges of fields and wait for warm weather.
When it gets to about 12 degrees warm, they wake up and let the wind carry them to new fields.
Its legs are partly red, while the top parts of the legs are dark.
Most asked questions about Pea weevil
?What does a pea weevil eat?
The beetle eats pea and bean leaves, and its babies eat little bumps on the roots.
?How big is a pea weevil?
Only about 3 to 5 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sitona lineatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, North America
- Also known as
- Pea and bean weevil, Pea leaf weevil
Where the facts come from
- Sitona lineatus (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 Udo Schmidt from Deutschland. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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