### animal | arthropod | insect | beetle:

Weevil
* All weevils have a characteristic snout , which in the milfoil weevil looks like an elephant trunk.
* Many weevils are useful, pollinating rare flowers or eating the aggressive water weed Salvinia
  - develop as larva inside the kernels of grains
  - prefer stored grains such as rice, cereal, flour and pasta
* Most weevils attack young trees.
* Most weevils become pests
  - structural pests
  - cause crop damage
  - defoliate entire trees
  - destroy crops
* Most weevils emerge in late summer
  - springs
* Most weevils enter habitats
  - winter habitats
* Most weevils feed on foliage
  - food sources
  - leaves
  - plant foliage
  - roots
  - same food sources
* Most weevils have dark eyes
  - heads
  - legs
  - look like tiny weevils
* Most weevils occur in locations
  - more northern locations
  - use pollen
* Some weevils belong to families
  - cause injuries
  - feed at nights
* Some weevils feed on develop seed heads
  - leaf surfaces
* Some weevils feed on upper leaf surfaces
* Some weevils have a snout that is as long as the body
  - long snouts
  - mouthparts
  - spots
  - thin snouts
* Some weevils invade gallon pots
* Some weevils live for months
  - weeks
  - years
  - pollinate plants
* Some weevils undergo complete metamorphosis
* Some weevils use long snouts
* are a large, diverse, and important group of insects
  - actually beetles
  - almost non-existent in the southern part of the range of white pine
  - among the most serious pests to agriculture and forestry in Canada
  - beetles, too
  - most common outside homes and can enter inside seeking shelter from heavy rains
  - plant-eating beetles with mouthparts elongated into snouts bearing jaws at their ends
  - said to be polyphytophageous, i.e. they eat what they see or smell
  - small beetles that possess conspicuous snouts
  - small, oval beetles with very hard shells
  - the most diverse family of any organisms on the planet
* attack trees
* become active in the spring about the time flower buds open
* can attack the seed in storage
  - have both hair and scales
  - overwinter in the adult, egg or larval stage
  - survive on seedling cotton but can reproduce only on fruiting cotton
* cause considerable damage
  - little damage
  - millions of dollars worth of damage every year
  - severe damage
  - significant damage
* chew holes.
* colonize stumps regardless of when the tree was cut.
* comsume grains, nuts, cotton and tobacco.
* develop their life cycle completely inside the grain kernels.
* disappear by midsummer.
* eat milfoil
* emerge from the cocoons after several weeks to mate
  - several weeks later to mate
* feed externally on foliage, blossom buds and tender pods.
* have a very unique narrow head and their mouthparts are at the end of a long snout
  - appearances
  - backs
  - different appearances
* includes air sacs
  - brains
  - carapaces
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - flight feathers
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - quill feathers
  - sections
  - skulls
  - thoraxes
  - vacuoles
* infest areas
  - grassy areas
* infesting the seeds are responsible for reduced usage of horse bean as a feed crop.
* lay eggs near the base of the plant.
* leave strawberry as soon as blackberry buds begin to swell.
* look like strawberry root weevils
* move into fields
  - rice fields
* often appear to be green with black patches when scales are missing
  - concentrate attacks on the biggest trees in a stand
* probably migrate to winter cuts in the spring.
* puncture developing pods with their snouts as they feed.
* sometimes enter homes, probably to overwinter.
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