Leaf Rolling Weevil

North Palm Beach, Florida, United States

North Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Summary[edit] Author: xpda. Description: Homoeolabus analis, Leaf-Rolling Weevil, ID Confidence: 92. Depicted place: West of Pryor, Mayes County, OK. Date: 11 June 2014. Credit line: Robert Webster / xpda.com / CC-BY-SA-4.0. References: Bugguide.net, Homoeolabus analis xpda.com, Homoeolabus analis. Source: Own work. Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 truetrue.

Description: This tiny (5mm) shiny red Leaf-Rolling Weevil (Homoeolabus analis) is perched on a beauty berry bush under a live oak tree at Frenchman's Forest Natural Area. These little gems love oak trees (especially sand live oak) but don't really harm the tree so they are cool weevils :-) The female rolls a leaf up using an elaborate system that takes about two hours and lays a single egg in the rolled leaf. The rolled leaf nursery is called a "nidus" and may then be clipped and dropped on the ground or left hanging. The larva develops tucked safely inside except, as Nature would have it, there is another weevil, Pterocolus ovatus (the Nest Thief Weevil) who will eat the egg of the leaf-rolling weevil and steal the nest for it's own larva! It eats nothing else. They call it a "kleptoparasite". So unfair after H. analis did all the work. I guess the weevil above was one of the lucky ones. Here is a more detailed explanation of the relationship: entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/beetles/H_analis_P_ovat... Date: 6 October 2011, 09:21. Source: Leaf-Rolling Weevil Uploaded by Jacopo Werther. Author: Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth!. Camera location26° 51′ 31.99″ N, 80° 04′ 40.7″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 26.858887; -80.077972.

Summary[edit] Author: xpda. Description: Homoeolabus analis, Leaf-Rolling Weevil, ID Confidence: 92. Depicted place: West of Pryor, Mayes County, OK. Date: 11 June 2014. Credit line: Robert Webster / xpda.com / CC-BY-SA-4.0. References: Bugguide.net, Homoeolabus analis xpda.com, Homoeolabus analis. Source: Own work. Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 truetrue.

Summary[edit] Description: English: Pictures of the oak leaf rolling weevil's nest taken in Hillsborough County, Florida. Date: 1 April 2019, 13:26:06. Source: Own work. Author: Jacona. Camera location27° 53′ 46.7″ N, 82° 12′ 36.6″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 27.896306; -82.210167.