This one would walk relatively quickly from any leaf or branch on which I put it. So I resorted to putting it on my hand. Even then, it walked straight off the edge of my hand. I let it go, because it was so determined to escape.
This is a Black Leaf-rolling Weevil
Black Leaf-rolling Weevil. |
Click to enlarge the head, rostrum and mouth parts.
Rostrum and mouth parts of Black Leaf-rolling Weevil |
Here is a more usual Weevil, with a long rostrum.
I don't know exactly what the Weevil on today's story (in the first two photos) does with the leaves it apparently rolls, but it strikes me as being built like a virtual "bulldozer". That is especially true when comparing this heavy built insect with the Butterfly, from yesterday.
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Hi there, i am also facinated by weevils, i am now studying Zoology because of my childhood facination. I have a few questions, i am not sure if you might know, but i have found a pair of black short Rostrum weevils on my driveway in a mating embrace, i collected them because i thought they had died, but to my amazement they where indeed alive and well, however i have been observing them for the past hour and a half and they have not seporated. i have been researching the mating habbits, and cannot find any information on this subject. I was curious to know if they stay like this long after the act, or are literly 'petrified'
any information would be most helpful.
on another note, i have not seen a brown cuckoo dove before, what a wonderful looking bird!
-Robyn.
p.s feel free to email me with any information you may find.
r_sewell@hotmail.com
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