Folks, this #WeevilWednesday I am thrilled to announce that the hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) are back!! The females are the ones with the extremely long snouts, for drilling into hollyhock buds.

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Oxystoma ochropus (Germar 1818)

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It's #WeevilWednesday, post 'em if you got 'em!

These little bluish-black weevils were all over the cosmos in a park. Not sure if #Curculionidae or #Brentidae, subfamily #Apioninae.

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I could've saved this for the next #WeevilWednesday but I gotta post it now. A female hollyhock weevil (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) slowly bores into a hollyhock flower bud. Wait for the second one to come walking around so you can see the full length of the snoot.

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It's #WeevilWednesday! Here's a female hollyhock weevil (_Rhopalapion longirostre_).

My usual hollyhock weevil spot has been blocked off by construction hoarding for weeks and they only just removed it, so I was finally able to glory in these beauties that live just a couple blocks away.

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It's #WeevilWednesday, post 'em if you got 'em.

This weekend I was thrilled to find the first hollyhock weevils (_Rhopalapion longirostre_) of the year! The ones with the loooooong snoots are the females.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionoidea #Brentidae #Apioninae

An older pic for this #WeevilWednesday, because recently some more knowledgeable folks on iNat corrected my ID! This little fellow is not a curculionid but a brentid in subfamily Apioninae, _Stenopterapion meliloti_.

#iNaturalist observation: https://inaturalist.ca/observations/160500794  

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