#Brentidae

[bowelfly]

inkwash bugs

[onenicebugperday]

Spined straight-snouted weevil, Pogonapion kuscheli, Brentidae

Found in New Caledonia

Photos by damienbr

[razehider]

members of Apioninae are apparently called pear-shaped weevils by people who have never seen pears before. this one is on my pinky, a good metric for how small they are, and it's got its wings halfway out, a good metric for how much they despise being near people

case in point (July 15th, 2024)

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Aptly named, the New Zealand giraffe weevil is the longest beetle in Aotearoa. Males can reach a length of 90 mm (3.5 in), half of which is their elongated snout. These extraordinary appendages are used to battle for access to females, which have much shorter snouts.

(Image: A mating male (top) and female (bottom) New Zealand giraffe weevil () by Christina Painting)

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[cnestus]

weevils

[ifelten]

Art af spidsmussnudebille (Apion frumentarium)

Apion frumentarium (Apion frumentarium)

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 28TH, 2024 | Image IDs: Two photos of a small brown and yellow Brentid weevil on the corner of a white metal building /End IDs.]

[drhoz]

The New Zealand giraffe beetle, Lasiorhynchus barbicornis, is a straight-snouted weevil in the subfamily Brentinae, endemic to New Zealand.

[entomoblog]

Parution d'un ouvrage sur l'Apion du trèfle en France

See on Scoop.it - Variétés entomologiques

Après trois années de travail sur le sujet, nous sommes très heureux de vous faire part de la sortie de l’ouvrage de synthèse traitant de l’Apion du trèfle en France.

  Vient de paraître !

  Référence : Fabre H., Chapelin-Viscardi J.-D., Loiseau S., Couturier-Boiton F. & Coussy B., 2023. –

  L’Apion du trèfle Protapion trifolii en France (Coleoptera Brentidae Apioninae). Supplément au tome 79, L’Entomologiste, 64 p.

[bowelfly]

its time to think about critters

[onenicebugperday]

howdy!

saw this guy in my house earlier (and later let him out via the window after i was done taking pictures). i tried my hand at identifying him myself but couldnt get anything more specific than "some kinda beetle/weevil??" it can fly from what ive seen, if that helps.

heres the best picture i got which he very kindly stood still for! pleasant little guy, it was very nice to meet him :)

It's a straight-snouted weevil in the family Brentidae. Without a location best I can say is probably an oak timberworm beetle.

[uzibrainrot]

OHHHMYGODDD LOOK AT THAT THING. BEAUTIFULL INSECT!! i have nooo idea which species this is BUT!! its a weevil from the brentidae family!! GRGRGR SO WONDERFULL @zombytommy @randygrim you two have to see this

have hose nose boy

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...nose boy? (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠) /lh

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

An oak timberworm (Arrhenodes minutus) from last June. I love these little guys!

[cnestus]

[bugkeeping]

Hose-nosed Weevil Antliarhis zamiae

“The specimen in the photograph is a female, with the very long rostrum. The males have a much shorter rostrum. The females of this species are the record-holders world-wide for the weevils with the longest snout as compared to the length of the body.

The female uses here extremely long snout to bore a canal through the wall of a cycad seed, which has an internal cavity. She then extracts the snout from the canal, turns around, and extrudes an equally remarkably long ovipositor through the hole she has bored. Eggs are then laid in the central cavity of the cycad seed, where the larvae develop.” x

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