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The Lesser Knapweed Flower Weevil is a tiny bug that loves to munch on knapweed flowers. It has a long snout and is usually brown or gray, blending in with its surroundings.
Hábitat: Grasslands
The Lesser Knapweed Flower Weevil is a small, oval-bodied insect, typically dark brown to black, often covered in fine greyish scales giving it a dusty appearance. It has a prominent, curved snout called a rostrum, which visually distinguishes it from many other small beetles.





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A female weevil lays all her eggs individually inside flower heads.
It helps control knapweed, an invasive plant, by eating its seeds!
Its larvae are legless grubs that live secretly inside plant seeds!
This tiny insect can play dead by freezing perfectly still when threatened.
Lesser Knapweed Flower Weevil can bore into plant tissue with its strong rostrum to lay eggs and feed on seeds.
Lesser Knapweed Flower Weevil has dusty scales that help them blend perfectly with knapweed plants, hiding from predators.
Lesser Knapweed Flower Weevil has a hard, protective exoskeleton that helps them resist attacks from small predators.
Adults and larvae both munch on parts of knapweed flowers and seeds, helping to manage the plant.
Diferencias por edad: Larvae feed exclusively on seeds within the flower head, while adults consume pollen and flower tissue.
Centaurea nigra
Adults and larvae feed on its seeds and flowers.
Cyanistes caeruleus
Small birds forage for weevils on plants.
Bracon intercessor
Its larvae develop inside the weevil's larvae.
Araneus diadematus
Weevils can be caught in spider webs.
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3-5 mm
30-200 días
Adults and larvae both munch on parts of knapweed flowers and seeds, helping to manage the plant.
Grasslands
Foraging
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