What Are Weevils? Weevils are small beetles with long, narrow snouts -- a characteristic of insects belonging to the Curculionidae family. Many species of weevil are agricultural and household pests.

A tiny bug is putting many people on edge, thanks to its resemblance to the feared tick. It's called a weevil and it does look a lot like the bug that carries Lyme disease. Entomologist Bill ...

Weevils use their snout to open the acorn by drilling and burrowing, continuously rotating it back and forth until they reach a sufficient depth. At the end of the weevil’s snout are sharp ...

Weevils, long-nosed beetles, are unsung heroes of pollination. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 05 / 230525141233.htm. Field Museum.

Boll weevils-long-snouted, 2/10-inch-long beetles that damage cotton's lint-producing bolls-are familiar foes to growers. Indeed, since first being discovered in southern Texas in 1892, the boll ...

In each of the weevil’s legs, there are circular threads that cover a total of about 410 degrees, which interlock with similar threads on the inner joint. Muscles are then able to control how ...

A pesky weevil bug has shut down shipments for pecans from four counties in New Mexico for the next 180 days as part of a quarantine.Pecan farmer and owner of Hatch Chile Store Preston Mitchell ...

Just as Michael Jordan is basketball's greatest player of all time, and Serena Williams is tennis', Alexander Riedel is the GOAT of finding, identifying, and naming weevil beetles. Riedel, an ...

The big bug battle. Despite granary weevils' contributions to science and their faithful (clingy) companionship to humans through history, they have been bugging us the whole time.

Originally, the Venus-like statue held aloft a small fountain instead of a model of the weevil. The oversized bug was a 1949 add-on, which only seemed to add to the monument’s curiosity value.

Dazzling new mimic beetles found, may already be under threat. Jewel weevils are so good at deterring predators with their iridescent displays, other beetles are mimicking them, new research shows.