#3242 · 🪲 beetles

acorn weevil

🇳🇱 Kleine eikelboorder ·Curculio glandium

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Per Hoffmann Olsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Roland Kratzer · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. Vriescheloo, Nederland:© Dorine Post · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Amsterdam:© leviathian · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Scherpenzeel, Nederland:© Rob C. H. M. Oudejans · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Noordwijk, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
10. 3925 Scherpenzeel, Nederland:© Rob C. H. M. Oudejans · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Curculio glandium is a species of European carpophagus weevil in the genus Curculio , the acorn and nut weevils. It eats by a rostrum, an elongated snout, that is used for piercing.

base stats

NL sightings 139iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,000iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).