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Sitona lineatus
The adult is slender, greyish-brown and about 5 mm long. Adult PLW can be confused with the sweet clover weevil. PLW can be distinguished by the presence of three light-colored stripes extending length-wise down the thorax and sometimes the abdomen of the pea leaf weevil. Pea leaf weevil larvae are “C” shaped, light milky white in color with a dark brown head, legless, cylindrical, soft and fleshy and 3.5 to 5.5 mm in length.
Pea fields in summer, moves to hay fields or headlands or ditches to overwinter.
Spotted on Aug 17, 2012
Submitted on Apr 21, 2013
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