Bigmouth weevil

The furrowed weevil belongs to the weevil family and is found in large parts of Europe, North America and Australia. This insect, which has been known for a long time, is an important pest for many plants and also for vines. The flightless beetle is about one centimetre long, greyish-black in colour and has a spatula-shaped elongated and clearly furrowed head with long, bent antennae, which gave it its name. It hibernates in the ground as a beetle, pupa or larva. The females, which live for two to three years, can develop up to 800 eggs in the course of their lives, which they lay superficially in the ground in the vicinity of the plant during the entire season. After one to three weeks, the ivory and brown-headed larvae, which are very similar to the cockchafer, hatch and infest the roots.

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