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Orthorhinus cylindrirostris
Elephant Weevil, aptly named. Approximately 2cm in body length.
Open woodland on James Cook University Cairns campus, North QLD, Australia
It ambled around a leaf, searching for food, sensing with its antennae. Its antennae could be retracted/lay flat into grooves along its snout. It searched every inch of the leaf, top and the underside.
Spotted on Jul 13, 2012
Submitted on Mar 4, 2013
20 Comments
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Thank you Viv. I have only been with Project Noah for a week, and loving it! I have learnt a lot in this short time and much much more to come. I have dusted off my field guides to insects, birds, mushrooms and butterflies and raring to go. PN has really sparked my enthusiasm once again. Thank YOU Viv :-)
Thank you for dropping by and commenting Mayra and dtun55. Much appreciated!
Another first for me ...I see something new everyday on PN. Thank you Andrea!
Bizarre! Insect from hell.
Wow! Crazy!
Thank you Jeannette. Cheers!
Thank you Daniele for the lovely feedback. I have only been with Project Noah for a few days and loving it!! I wish I had found it sooner. It has tweaked my enthusiasm, and can't wait to upload more. Thanks again
Wow, great spotting :)
The collection you've started is wonderful, and we appreciate the fact that your notes are complete and informative. Looking forward to see more!
Thank you to Carol, Karen & Telse for dropping by. Much appreciated
Thank you for the lovely welcome to Project Noah Daniele.
Thank you Alice!
Fantastic spotting AndreaLim! Welcome to Project Noah.
Fantastic!
Thank you for the feeback on my Weevil, and thank you for the great tips Antonio and the lovely welcome. I look forward to sharing what I find in my part of the world.
Great capture AndreaLim,we can say that he is as a cute face :-) ,congrats,thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah :-)
I hope you like the site us much we do,there are many features you can explore,first you should read the http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you have all the "rules" of Project Noah :-)
You have also a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from our best specialists in the diferents areas and also storys of wildlife "adventures" from our most knowened users.
There are also the chats for elp in the id process and to comment your's and other's spottings.
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Enjoy your self,see you arround :-)
Awesome spot!
Whoa...Wild!
Great pic!