Apple blossom weevil
Anthonomus pomorum
The apple blossom weevil is a tiny beetle with a long snout, like a little elephant's trunk. It lives on apple trees. Each spring it moves into the orchards to find its favourite tree.
Lives in
Europe, in orchards, hedges and woods
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. Apple growers do not like it, because it spoils apple blossoms.
What does it eat?
It eats apple trees and nothing else. Its young grow up inside the apple blossoms.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Apple blossom weevil about 0.1 km/h (0.06 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
In winter the grown-ups hide in fallen leaves in forests and hedges.
2
It may find its apple tree by smell.
3
Spiders are good at catching it.
4
It has just one family of young each year.
you asked
Most asked questions about Apple blossom weevil
?Is the apple blossom weevil harmful?
Not to people. It only damages the flowers of apple trees.
?Where does the apple blossom weevil spend the winter?
Under fallen leaves in forests and hedges. In spring it flies to apple trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthonomus pomorum
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Anthonomus pomorum (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 Francisco Welter-Schultes. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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