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Photo by Scott Frazier
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Field Notes

Description:

Small (8-10mm) weevils

Habitat:

Spotted in a large semi-urban yard & garden near a disturbed patch of remnant forest in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.

Notes:

This weevil is very abundant here and is a voracious herbivore, having scarred many ornamentals at this location.

A tortoise hell beetle is seen sharing the same leaf in the 2nd photograph.

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Comments (2)

Nice. They're like a dirty version of these... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8668599

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