Species group · Insects
Weevils
WAnimals has 2 species of weevil, all in the family Curculionidae.
- 2 species
- 1 family
- 59 countries
- Length
- 2 cm – 8 cm
Ranges calculated from the entries that record the figure, not from all 2.
All 2 species of weevils on WAnimals
Each one has its own full entry. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
Conservation status
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
See the global conservation statusWhere they live
Recorded in 59 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Did you know…
By the time the visible symptoms appear, with the central leaves drooping or the crown collapsed, the palm is usually already lost: the larvae have been at work inside it for months.
From Red Palm Weevil
One early-detection technique is to listen inside the trunk with acoustic sensors, because the sound of the larvae chewing is audible with the right equipment.
From Red Palm Weevil
It has transformed the townscape of many Mediterranean cities and forced the felling of century-old palms all along the Spanish coast.
From Red Palm Weevil
The town of Enterprise, Alabama, raised a monument in its honour in 1919: the pest forced farmers to diversify into peanuts and they fared far better than they had with cotton.
From Weevil
A decades-long eradication programme based on pheromone traps and coordinated treatments has removed it from almost all of the United States, one of the few cases of a pest eradicated at continental scale.
From Weevil
The adults overwinter hidden in the leaf litter at the field margins and reappear with the following crop.
From Weevil