#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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It's a #WeevilWednesday twofer! A lesser knapweed flower weevil (_Larinus minutus_) and a mullein weevil (_Rhinusa tetra_), found on the same mullein plant.

You know the rules, post 'em if you got 'em.  

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

Check your Canada thistle (_Cirsium arvense_) for _Larinus carlinae_, the Canada thistle bud weevil. Note: it's actually a Eurasian plant, I have no idea why it's called that.

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