#3456 · 🪲 beetles

Red Palm Weevil

🇳🇱 Rode palmkever ·Rhynchophorus ferrugineus

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus is one of two species of snout beetle known as the red palm weevil , Asian palm weevil or sago palm weevil . , Rhynchophorus vulneratus ). Weevil larvae can excavate holes in the trunk of a palm trees up to a...

base stats

NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,136iNaturalist 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).