#bearded weevil

A bearded weevil (Rhinostomus barbirostris) in Panama

Thanks for the question! And I certainly do! I was in the middle of writing a post about bearded weevils (Rhinostomus barbirostris), and I opened a new tumblr tab to check the tags of my other posts, and I saw this!

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I suppose I'll just copy and paste what I was writing over here.

✨ cool bug facts's ✨

Rhinostomus barbirostris, or the Bearded weevil!

😳Why he looks like 🦧 👨‍🦰

😍The anatomy of these TOTALLY TUBULAR Ronald weevilys!!😍

They are classified as true weevils. Weevils can either be Curculionidae - True weevils, or Belidae - Primitive weevils. The difference between them being that true weevils have an elbow-like bend in their antennae, while primitive weevils have straight antennae, because straight people are primitive.

The males have orange bristles on their snout, making the appearance of a red beard.

They are the third largest species of weevil in the world.

They have sexual polymorphism, rather than dimorphism, meaning the males can have the characteristics of a female, with the only way to properly tell them apart being the facial hair. The females, on the other hand, can't take the appearance of males.

Diet.

The larvae eat the wood and roots of coconut trees and oil palms.

The adults eat coconuts and whatever grows on oil palms.

Behavior.

They are very attracted to light, and are often found under peoples porchlights.

The feminine looking males, while looking for a mate, will sneak past the other fighting males, who think they are a random female, and therefore do not see them as competition, allowing for them to breed with the female they were fighting over. (Although, what happens if a different male thinks they're more attractive than the actual female?)

Habitat.

While their main homes are on coconut trees and oil palms, they can be found on most species of Arecaceae, or palm trees.

They are found in most places in Central and South America.

Endangerment.

Like most weevils, humans tend to exterminate them due to their feasting on things that humans also like to eat. Unlike a lot of other weevils, though, they feed on things that aren't considered to be crops.

Humans might also exterminate them due to their carrying of diseases to palm trees, such as resinosis, or stem bleeding, and red ring disease, which is a very harmful disease to oil palms that tends to cause little leaf syndrome (As the name implies, it is a syndrome where the leaves shrink down to an abnormally small size.), this effects more than 15% of oil palms in commercial plantations.

Sorry for taking so long to answer! (I think, I'm not sure what the average answering time is.)

Wow, these are some good pals! Looks like a golden silk orb weaver and an especially large katydid, whom I love. I don’t recognize the saturniid moth. I’ve never seen one with eye spots quite like those. Anyone know which species it is? The butterfly is an owl butterfly! I won’t even begin to guess with the beetles, there are just too many. The weevil, though, is not a giraffe weevil, but a bearded weevil, Rhinostomus barbirostris. You can see its little orange beard on its snoot in the photo.