White-fringed weevil
The white-fringed weevil is a dark grey beetle with a short, broad snout and two pale stripes down its head and back. Its wing covers are joined together, so it cannot fly. Outside South America, every single one is a female, and they lay eggs without any males.
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Fun facts
Its larvae have no legs and live in the soil for 10 to 17 months.
One weevil can lay hundreds of eggs. When fed peanut leaves, they laid over 1,500 each.
Males are very rare and live only in South America, if any are left at all.
In New Zealand house sparrows like to eat it.
It reached New Zealand in 1944 and now lives over most of the North Island.
Most asked questions about White-fringed weevil
?Can the white-fringed weevil fly?
No. Its wing covers are joined together, so it can only walk.
?Is the white-fringed weevil harmful?
Not to people, but its larvae damage the roots of many crops.
?How big is the white-fringed weevil?
About 8 to 12 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Naupactus leucoloma
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- South America, North America, Africa, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Naupactus leucoloma (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 Graham Wise from Brisbane, Australia. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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