Snout Beetle

snout beetle: see weevil.

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weevil

 or snout beetle

Any of about 40,000 beetle species in the largest family of beetles, Curculionidae, which is also the largest family in the animal kingdom. Most weevils have long, elbowed antennae that may fold into special grooves on the prominent snout. Many species are wingless. Most species are less than 0.25 in. (6 mm) long, are plainly coloured and marked, and feed exclusively on plants. Some species are more than 3 in. (80 mm) long. The larvae may feed on only a certain part of a plant or a single plant species; adults are less specialized. The family includes many destructive pests, including the boll weevil.

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Snout Beetle 

(Coenorrhinus pauxillus), a beetle of the family Curculionidae. The body is 2-3 mm long and green-blue with a metallic sheen. The snout beetle is found in Europe, southern Iran, European Russia, and the Caucasus. It damages fruit crops, including apples, pears, and plums, and is especially harmful in the forest-steppe regions. The beetles eat leaf buds, flower buds, and flowers. The larvae eat out passages in the veins and mines in the flesh of the leaves, causing them to fall when there are many larvae. Control measures include destruction of the pupae by spraying the soil under the trees in autumn, destroying the larvae by gathering and burning fallen leaves, and destroying beetles by treating trees with insecticides.