I should probably save this for the right day, yeah? #beetles #insects #WeevilWednesday

einen tag zu spät für den #WeevilWednesday , aber dafür hat sich dieser Deutsche Trägrüssler Liparus germanus schön auf dem kiesel in szene gesetzt :3

i don't have a new weevil of my own for #WeevilWednesday so i'm just gonna page down the #iNaturalist photos page for Curculionoidea till i see a new weevil that makes me say out loud "wtf evolution" and post it

Ich habe einen kleinen Engel gesehen!

I finally have a contribution of my own for #WeevilWednesday this year! This tiny ink-blue weevil was having a hard time scaling the dead leaf.

ok i know #WeevilWednesday was yesterday but LOOK. AT. THIS. CREATURE.

_Aegorhinus servillei_ spotted in Chile by mgargiulo on #iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/135627329

Weevil. Might be a vine weevil but not certain #weevilWednesday

auch wenn man es nicht sehen kann, weil er uns seinen hübschen hintern zudreht, ja das ist ein weevil, ein rüsselkäfer, ein Seidiger Glanzrüssler Polydrusus formosus

#WeevilWednesday

"Weevils, long-nosed beetles, are unsung heroes of pollination"

"A special kind of intertwined plant-pollinator relationship, thought to be rare, is present in hundreds of weevil species"

“We are highlighting a group of insects that most people want to see killed, and we're showing that they can actually be pretty important for maintaining ecosystems and products that we care about,”

https://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/weevils-long-nosed-beetles-are-unsung-heroes-of-pollination

it's #WeevilWednesday *and* #BlackHistoryMonth, and i would like to share my idea:

LET GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HOLD THE WEEVIL.

So if you're a weevil fan you probably know the story of Enterprise, AL's monument to the boll weevil, which devastated cotton crops across the South and caused local farmers to diversify into peanuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boll_Weevil_Monument

The weevil is great, but like…random Greek-style statue? C'mon, you can do better. Why not honour a—hell, THE— historical figure known above all else for promoting nitrogen-fixing legume crops like peanuts (and black-eyed peas, and alfalfa, and sweet potatoes), which not only can be used as feed, cash, *and* subsistence crops in the wake of the boll weevil, but also replenish poor soil?

(Between the lines in this 1902 pamphlet: "the South has been able to farm cotton relentlessly and inefficiently because thanks to slavery and sharecropping they could/can just force vast numbers of people to work on it, and now every last nutrient has been wrung out of the dirt, so now we have to work smarter, not harder." https://archive.tuskegee.edu/repository/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Farmers-leafet.pdf )

It might kind of look like George Washington Carver is symbolically siccing the boll weevil on farmers who did not heed his quite literally down-to-earth advice about sustainable farming practices, which was not really the case, but it would be kind of funny.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Fig. 1. boll weevil, photo by Alton Sparks https://www.forestryimages.org/browse/image/1327126
Fig. 2. George Washington Carver circa 1906, photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95507555/
Fig. 3. The Boll Weevil Monument in Enterprise, AL. Photo by Martin Lewison https://www.flickr.com/photos/milst1/14574605516

oh shit it's #WeevilWednesday

BEHOLD: this majestic _Poteriophorus imperatrix_ observed in the Philippines by Claude Chavand: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/38706476

#iNaturalist #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Dryophthorinae

Amid everything else, it's #WeevilWednesday. Found this tiny one under a log in the park.

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae

I have a plush weevil for #WeevilWednesday!! It's a squishable and super cute