Post by neville park - ourselves.space

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i don't have any new weevils of my own to show off this #WeevilWednesday, but may I present for your consideration…the milkweed stem weevil, _Rhyssomatus lineaticollis_. Seriously just look at this fucking weevil. Isn't it the most ridiculous thing you've ever seen

#iNaturalist observations
- pinemartyn https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88714626
- cheryl394 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/170058954
- entomike https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125379609

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Molytinae

A plump black weevil with a grooved thorax and pebbled elytra, its robust snout deep in a large drop of white milkweed sap. Lost in the sauce. Photo by iNat user pinemartyn.

A milkweed stem weevil playing dead on a milkweed leaf, its long nose tucked in under its chin and its legs folded up under its bulbous body. It looks completely ridiculous. Photo by iNat user cheryl394.

A milkweed stem weevil, head-on against a bright white background. This one looks more red-brown than black, perhaps just the lighting. Its two round compound eyes almost meet in the middle . Once again, it looks completely ridiculous. Photo by iNat user entomike.

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