Black coconut bunch weevil
The black coconut bunch weevil is a big black beetle with a long snout. It lives in Brazil, where it loves coconut trees a little too much. Its babies are even bigger than the grown-up beetles.
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Its snout alone is about 8 millimetres long.
Its larvae are white and curved, with a rusty coloured head, and grow 4 to 5 centimetres long. That is bigger than the adult beetle.
It is such a big pest in Brazil that it has cut the coconut harvest there by about half.
Males and females look almost the same, but the females are a little bigger.
Most asked questions about Black coconut bunch weevil
?How big is the black coconut bunch weevil?
The adult beetle is about 25 to 30 millimetres long, with a snout of about 8 millimetres.
?Why is the black coconut bunch weevil a pest?
It and its larvae feed on coconut palms and damage the flowers and fruit, so farmers get fewer coconuts.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Homalinotus coriaceus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Homalinotus coriaceus (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 andré. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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