![]() Sometimes the worry may indeed be justified, but in many cases, like with these acorns, the tree has evolved a strategy to deal with occasional waves of weevils and other insects we consider pests. If you are assessing this situation from an agricultural perspective (say that nut is a pecan), invested in harvesting a profitable crop, you might be feeling very worried. They are actually the larvae of the adult weevil mom who selected the acorn for her nursery. ![]() Nut and Acorn Weevil (Curculio sp).Ī female weevil will make a hole in the acorn so she can put her eggs inside it! Hole drilled by Nut and Acorn Weevilīecause I like word games, I thought I’d point out to you that rearranging the letters in the word weevil will make the words “we live?” Well, those eggs hatch into baby weevils who LIVE in a little house that is an acorn (and sometimes in other nuts too). The adult female weevil will use this drill on her very long snout to make a hole in those acorns! Nut and Acorn Weevil (Curculio sp). When you find out how this weevil uses it to DRILL, you may be amazed. This strange looking creature is one of the Nut and Acorn Weevils (Curculio sp). I also found a very cool bug under one of those oak trees while I was there. My mom used to draw little faces on them and I had acorn “people” to play with when I was a child. They have several oak trees on their property and there was an abundance of acorns all over the ground this year, so I brought a few home with me in a ziplock bag. ![]() I picked up these acorns (Quercus sp.) when I visited my folks recently in Texas. Key Words: masting, Curculio, Quercus, mast seeding, acorn weevil, diapause ![]()
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