Weevils are small beetles with long, narrow snouts -- a characteristic of insects belonging to the Curculionidae family. Many species of weevil are agricultural and household pests. They're found ...

Weevils are around 3/8 of an inch in size, with their snouts being almost as long as their entire bodies. A weevil’s proboscis is almost as long as its entire body. ©YouTube/ Granny Beaver ...

It turns out that some of nature’s most unsung and diverse pollinators are a type of long-snouted beetles called weevils. [Related: Build a garden that’ll have pollinators buzzin’.] ...

Imagine living your life with a 10-foot–long straw fastened to your face, like this acorn weevil does. That protrusion, called a rostrum, is highly useful for the weevil, however, allowing it to feed ...

A rice weevil is a stowaway that sneaks into your pantry and turns your rice into its new home. While it has a cute snoot, a rice weevil is a stowaway. It sneaks into your pantry as an egg that ...

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But more than a century ago, a small creature – the boll weevil – nearly destroyed this town. It came for the cotton. Attorney and local historian Dale Marsh said, "The boll weevil was a pest ...