#Brentidae

[bowelfly]

inkwash bugs

[onenicebugperday]

Spined straight-snouted weevil, Pogonapion kuscheli, Brentidae

Found in New Caledonia

Photos by damienbr

[lazchance]

straight snouted weevil (idk species but its cute)

comically fat thorax and then a tiny ass head... i dont have much to say for this post i just like this weevil

ive seen it twice and something about the colours + texture + overall shape of it just makes me like it

if anyone can give me a species ID i would appreciate it

[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

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

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

[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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[cnestus]

[animalids]

Hairy flea leg weevil (Catagogus diorymerus)

Photo by Steve & Alison1

[bowelflies]

handful of l o n g b o y s