To the tune of Gordon Lightfoot's "Rainy Day People" (https://youtu.be/MdhRhGX3AG4): 🎶 Rainy day weevils… 🎶

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#nahaufnahme #MacroPhotography #curculionidae #ichneumonidae

Die Bilder wirken fies, so fies, wie das Leben sein kann.

Die Fotos zeigen zwei Insektenarten, einmal einen todgeweihten Nesselrüssler (Phyllobius pomaceus), der als lebender Nahrungsvorrat diente. Und zum anderen die verpuppungsbereite Larve einer für mich nicht identifizierbaren Schlupfwespenart, die dabei ist, ihren von innen aufgefressenen, aber noch lebenden Wirt zu verlassen.

#WeevilWednesday: The other day I was at a native plant gardening thing and afterwards a few of us were checking out an overgrown patch and noting various plants. There was a lot of Canada thistle, _Cirsium arvense_ (which isn't actually from Canada) and I said the only good thing about it was that it often had weevils. And right then I spotted a Canada thistle bud weevil (_Larinus carlinae_) on one of them! I made the others look at it because LOOK AT IT.

Then I had to ask one of them to hold it for a moment so I could grab my clip-on macro lens and put it on my phone for photos.

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You know what day it is. It's #WeevilWednesday. Post 'em if you got 'em.

I think this is _Barypeithes pellucidus_, a. k. a. the hairy spider weevil. Found in the garden snacking on a dandelion stem with its snoot covered in pollen.

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It's the first #WeevilWednesday this year that I've actually been able to go out and find a weevil! Take a closer look at this snoot!

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