Green immigrant leaf weevil
The green immigrant leaf weevil is a tiny beetle that sparkles bright metallic green. Its body is really black, but it is covered in little round emerald scales. It has a short nose and pale feelers with a dark tip.
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Fun facts
If its green scales rub off, the dark body underneath shows through.
Its larvae live in the soil and grow to about 7 millimetres long.
You can find grown-up weevils mostly from April to August.
In orchards it can damage the buds and blossoms of fruit trees.
Most asked questions about Green immigrant leaf weevil
?What does the green leaf weevil eat?
Young leaves and flowers of trees and fruit trees. Its larvae eat roots.
?Why is the weevil so green?
It is covered in tiny shiny green scales, like sequins on a dress.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Polydrusus formosus
- Named by
- Mayer, 1779
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
Where the facts come from
- Polydrusus formosus (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 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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