Crusted root weevil
Romualdius scaber
The crusted root weevil is a small beetle with a short, broad snout. It lives in Europe and North America. Weevils are beetles with a nose like a little trunk.
Lives in
Europe and North America
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like other weevils, it feeds on plants.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Crusted root weevil about 0.1 km/h (0.06 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The famous scientist Carl Linnaeus first described it in 1758.
2
His description was so short that for a very long time people thought it meant a different weevil.
3
The mix-up was only sorted out in 2013, more than 250 years later.
you asked
Most asked questions about Crusted root weevil
?Is the crusted root weevil dangerous?
No. It is a small weevil and harmless to people.
?Where does the crusted root weevil live?
In Europe and North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Romualdius scaber
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
- Also known as
- Crusted grass weevil
Where the facts come from
- Romualdius scaber (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 AfroBrazilian. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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