Posts Tagged: weevil

Searching for the Most Unusual Gift?

It's definitely one of a kind. If you gift this to a family, friend or yourself, no one can ever...

Thisi polka-dotted weevil needs a species name. It's in the genus Macrocopturus in the weevil family Curculionidae. (Photos courtesy of the Bohart Museum)

Thisi polka-dotted weevil needs a species name. It's in the genus Macrocopturus in the weevil family Curculionidae. (Photos courtesy of the Bohart Museum)

Name, please! This insect, from the family Chrysididae and genus Hedychridium, was collected in Thailand. It needs a species name.

Name, please! This insect, from the family Chrysididae and genus Hedychridium, was collected in Thailand. It needs a species name.

Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 5:11 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Biolegacy Program (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (666), Lynn Kimsey (447), naming rights (2), new species (2), special gift (1), weevil (1)

I Never Promised You...a Rose Weevil

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with the...

Rose curculio or rose weevil

ROSE CURCULIO lays its eggs inside a yellow rose bud. Note the holes in the rose bud. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garevy)

Close-up

CLOSE-UP of a rose curculio or rose weevil shows its brick red thorax and elytra (that's the modified, hardened forewings that protect the hindwings underneath) and long black snout. This insect is a pest of roses, particularly yellow and white roses that grow wild or untended. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

No weevils

THIS YELLOW ROSE is free of aphids and rose weevils. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, May 25, 2009 at 12:25 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Merhynchites bicolor (0), rose curculio (0), rose weevil (0), yellow roses (0)

Posts Tagged: weevil

Searching for the Most Unusual Gift?

I Never Promised You...a Rose Weevil

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