White Lumpy Weevil Drawing

Episomus turritus - shirokobuzoumushi - white lumpy weevil

A drawing in pencil and charcoal of a shirokobuzoumushi - Japanese white lumpy weevil - from some of my original photos.

White Lumpy Weevil

A lovely, large weevil from Japan. I think it mimics bird droppings.

Shirokobuzoumushi - Episomus turritus

Shirokobuzoumushi - Episomus turritus

Shirokobuzoumushi - Episomus turritus

Figwort Weevil

Wildife Wednesdays #46

Here are some slightly blurry shots from the lifecycle of a figwort weevil - Cionus scrophulariae:

The young don't look like arthropods at all - they appear soft and very slimy, like tiny slugs or misplaced flatworms.

Their pupal cases are a mockery of the figwort buds which they have despoiled to grow so very quickly. Note that this figwort shoot is also being throttled by bindweed.

Here is the finished product - using its funny, curved proboscis to defoliate the very same plant whose buds have been so thoroughly ruined.

Here is the result of all that hard work. Time to find a new figwort plant...

Getting together to make a new generation of figwort eaters!

Birch Weevils

Wildife Wednesdays #21