vegetable weevil, Listroderes costirostris obliquus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

vegetable weevil
Hexapoda (including Insecta) > Coleoptera > Curculionidae
Listroderes costirostris obliquus (Klug)


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Host: flue-cured tobacco
Nicotiana tabacum L.
Photographer: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Slide Set, United States
Contact: J. Michael Moore, University of Georgia
Descriptor: Damage
Description: Larvae and sometimes adults may feed on buds and leaves in plant beds. Adults may occasionally attack newly transplanted tobacco, feeding on leaves and stems. Feeding holes are ragged and may resemble grasshopper damage, but vegetable weevils nearly always cause some stem damage.
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