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Yellow Poplar Weevil

Odontopus calceatus

The Yellow Poplar Weevil is a small bug that loves to munch on the leaves of tulip trees. They have a shiny yellow body with black spots, making them easy to spot on the trees they like!

Lebensraum: Forests

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The Yellow Poplar Weevil is a small, oval-shaped insect, typically dark brown to black in color, often with yellowish-brown scales on its wing covers. It has a distinctive long, downward-curving snout, or proboscis, extending from its head. Its body is somewhat pear-shaped.

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Yellow Poplar Weevil
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Yellow Poplar Weevil

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Adult weevils often play dead, falling off leaves to escape scary predators.

Its long snout is actually its mouth, used like a tiny drill and a straw!

This weevil can make an entire tree's leaves look rusty brown from all their munching!

Young weevils are tiny leaf miners, tunneling hidden highways inside leaves!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Leaf Miner Power

Yellow Poplar Weevil larvae can tunnel inside leaves because their tiny bodies fit perfectly, helping them hide from predators while they eat.

Fähigkeit

Snooty Feeder

The Yellow Poplar Weevil has a long snout that helps them pierce and chew plant tissues to slurp up yummy sap and plant juices.

Fähigkeit

Hard Shell Protection

The Yellow Poplar Weevil has a tough, protective exoskeleton that helps them resist attacks from predators like birds and spiders.

Maße und Details

Größe
2.5-3.5 mm
Lebenserwartung
30-60 Tage
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

These weevils are plant-eaters, feasting on leaves of trees like the yellow poplar.

Altersunterschiede: Larvae tunnel and feed within leaves (leaf miners), while adults chew holes and skeletonize leaves.

Hauptnahrung

  • Liriodendron tulipifera leaves
  • Magnolia grandiflora leaves
  • Sassafras albidum leaves

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eats

Tulip Poplar

Liriodendron tulipifera

eats its leaves

eats

Southern Magnolia

Magnolia grandiflora

feeds on its leaves

eaten by

Blue Jay

Cyanocitta cristata

a common food source

parasitizes

Braconid Wasp

Microctonus calceati

lays eggs inside adults

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Noch keine Alternativnamen vorhanden.

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

These bugs are not harmful, but it's best to look and not touch them.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das größe von Yellow Poplar Weevil?

2.5-3.5 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Yellow Poplar Weevil?

30-60 Tage

Was frisst Yellow Poplar Weevil?

These weevils are plant-eaters, feasting on leaves of trees like the yellow poplar.

Wo findet man Yellow Poplar Weevil normalerweise?

Forests

Wie jagt Yellow Poplar Weevil?

Foraging

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Yellow Poplar Weevil?

6

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