Oak curculio
The oak curculio is a little dark reddish-brown weevil. It has a long nose that looks a bit like an elephant's trunk, with tiny jaws at the very end. Its babies grow up inside acorns.
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Fun facts
The mother lays her eggs inside acorns, so each acorn becomes a nursery and a lunch box at the same time.
It can make a squeaky sound by rubbing two parts of its body together, especially when it is handled roughly.
The babies spend the winter in the soil, while the grown-ups hide under fallen leaves.
It lays its eggs in the acorns of nine different kinds of oak trees.
Weevils like it can even help a forest grow, because the oak tree makes so many acorns.
Most asked questions about Oak curculio
?How big is an oak curculio?
Very small, about 4 to 5 millimetres long.
?What does the oak curculio eat?
Acorns. Its babies live inside acorns and eat the seed.
?Is the oak curculio dangerous?
No, it is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Conotrachelus posticatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Conotrachelus posticatus (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 (c) jfox16, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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