#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.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Lixinae

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.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Entiminae

A handsome weevil with a snooty snout an knob-ended antennae.

#Weevils #WeevilWednesday #coleoptera #beetles #insects #arthropods #Photography

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!

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils #Coleoptera #Curculionidae

Je ne me lasse pas de cette photo
Mes deux bestioles préférées qui posent cote-à-cote : chief kiss

Une Thomise et un Charançon <3

#spiders #weevils #arthropods #insects #macrophotography

An elongated bean weevil (Lixus pulverulentus), spotted in #Athens, #Greece, 12-Apr-2026.

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(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

A very proud uhh weefool. Idk I couldn’t think of a better pun.

Since I drew weevils for Valentine’s Day I figured I might as well draw White Day weevils too :)

On Friday I saw my first Buddleja weevils in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. This is a biocontrol agent purposefully introduced into NZ to control butterfly bush, *Buddleja davidii*, which had been spreading out-of-control through much of the country.

Until recently it's been a bit too cold in Christchurch for Buddleja weevils to thrive. No longer, apparently.

The first Christchurch observation of Buddleja weevils on iNaturalist was in March last year. Mine is now the 6th observaton from the city.

The larvae are distinctive yellow jelly slugs, and the adult weevils are brown.

Keep an eye out for them on a butterfly bush near you.

As the climate warms, weeds are pushing southwards. At least it's good to know that their biocontrol agents are doing the same.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=129542&preferred_place_id=6803&subview=map&taxon_id=1607464&verifiable=any

https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/discover-our-research/managing-invasive-species/weed-biocontrol/projects-agents/biocontrol-agents/buddleia-leaf-weevil

#weeds #WeedBiocontrol #biocontrol #nz #weevils #beetles #entomology #iNaturalist #iNaturalistNZ