Bluegrass billbug
The bluegrass billbug is a small brown, grey or black weevil from North America. It has a long snout that curves downwards, like a little bill. It lives in grassy places, lawns and grain fields.
How big is it?
How long is it?
How big is Bluegrass billbug compared to YOU?
Just maths in your browser. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
About a third of its whole body length is its long, curved snout.
It hardly ever flies. It prefers to scramble around between the plants.
When it eats a leaf that is still rolled up, it leaves a neat row of identical little holes.
The mother chews a hole in a grass stem and puts one egg inside. A mother can lay 40 to 200 eggs.
The white larva has no legs and hollows out the stem from the inside.
Most asked questions about Bluegrass billbug
?What does the bluegrass billbug eat?
Young grass shoots, corn and grain. It especially likes Kentucky bluegrass.
?How big is the bluegrass billbug?
About 6 millimetres long, including its long snout.
?Is the bluegrass billbug harmful?
Not to people, but it can damage lawns and crops.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sphenophorus parvulus
- Named by
- Gyllenhaal, 1838
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Sphenophorus parvulus (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 Joseph Berger, Bugwood.org. CC BY 3.0 us, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
If we got something wrong, sorry, we are bug fans, not a science journal. Tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it.
Bug Wiki honey jar For grown-ups: Bug Wiki is free, with no ads and no tracking. A small tip helps keep it online.Leave a tip
Stag beetle
Hercules beetle
Common glow-worm
Goliath beetle
Cockchafer
Mealworm beetle
Fighting spider
Eastern grey bush-cricket
Peppertree psyllid
Common digging grasshopper
White-banded bird-dropping spider
Hairy scale-cricket