Black-beaked green weevil
The black-beaked green weevil is a tiny beetle with a long snout. Its body is black, but tiny scales make its back shine green and gold. It loves clover more than anything.
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Fun facts
Its snout, or beak, is three times as long as it is wide.
Its legs and feelers are reddish.
The mother lays her eggs right inside clover shoots and leaves.
Each baby can spoil three or four clover flowers while it grows.
It spends the winter as a grown-up beetle in the clover field.
Most asked questions about Black-beaked green weevil
?Is the black-beaked green weevil dangerous?
Not to people. It is tiny and does not bite or sting, but it can harm clover crops.
?What does the black-beaked green weevil eat?
Clover and a few related plants such as peas, alfalfa and vetch.
?How big is a black-beaked green weevil?
Very small, only 3 to 4 mm long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypera nigrirostris
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, North America, Asia
- Also known as
- Lesser clover leaf weevil
Where the facts come from
- Hypera nigrirostris (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 Janet Graham. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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