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Sweet Potato Weevil

Cylas formicarius

Description:

Elongated, smooth, and shiny. Beak twice as long as head. Reddish pronotum, etc., with elytra blue-black, head and beak dusky

1 Species ID Suggestions

oxyjack
oxyjack 12 years ago


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13 Comments

oxyjack
oxyjack 12 years ago

You're welcome! Great photos!

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 12 years ago

fantastic !

AlbertTamayo
AlbertTamayo 12 years ago

Thanks everyone. Thank you so much oxyjack for the ID!

MaryEvans2
MaryEvans2 12 years ago

Stunning macro and loved the video. Nice spotting

NoriethAlejandra
NoriethAlejandra 12 years ago

What a great contribution! Nice..

LuisStevens
LuisStevens 12 years ago

Great Video!

eulalia rubio
eulalia rubio 12 years ago

All your photos are stunning. Congratulations.
Can you include in the mission of Weevils this spotting? Thank you.
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/7743...

AnnalisaD
AnnalisaD 12 years ago

Very entertaining video! Great capture :)

Ismael Chaves
Ismael Chaves 12 years ago

Great video

misako
misako 12 years ago

nice video!

AlbertTamayo
AlbertTamayo 12 years ago

Sorry can't remember which plant... just spotted it in our backyard... looks like an ant from a distance.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Like to know which plant you spot this. Also where in urban or wild.

AnnvanWijgerden
AnnvanWijgerden 12 years ago

I LOVE the way you've put music to this critter: Weevil magic!

AlbertTamayo
Spotted by
AlbertTamayo

Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines

Spotted on Jul 29, 2010
Submitted on Oct 9, 2011

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