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Agave Weevil (Scyphophorus acupunctatus)
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dvoribird
weevil -
Scyphophorus acupunctatus
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
October 7, 2021
Adopted as a full adult on 10.06.2021
Died 09.15.2023 after living with me as a full adult for 23½ months (!)
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dvoribird
on 23 March, 2022 - 11:07am
Last updated 15 September, 2023 - 7:46pm
agree w/Tyler, although Brad's move made me pause
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v belov
, 16 May, 2023 - 7:30pm
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Moved
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Brad Barnd
, 22 April, 2022 - 2:44pm
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Scyphophorus acupunctatus?
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Tyler Hedlund
, 23 March, 2022 - 2:55pm
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Ah, looks like it!
Thank you, Tyler. He was my pet for over six months (adopted beginning of October), so I got a bunch of photos of him. He likes apples, lettuce, and his butterfly sponge.
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dvoribird
, 23 March, 2022 - 5:12pm
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Update
Still alive and kicking as of 04.24.2022, a sweet little beetle who loves to bore into his apple slices.
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dvoribird
, 24 April, 2022 - 11:59am
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Still going?
I've wondered how long some of the larger dryophthorines live as adults.
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Tyler Hedlund
, 17 May, 2023 - 8:13am
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My Calypso died :(
Tyler, you were wondering how long these guys live. I adopted Calypso as a full adult on 10.06.2021, and she died today, 09.15.2023, after living with me for 23½ months (!). That is the longest I have ever kept an adult insect.
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dvoribird
, 15 September, 2023 - 7:45pm
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Sorry to hear that!
That's a heck of a run it had though! I wouldn't have expected it to live for anywhere close to that long, so that's very interesting.
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Tyler Hedlund
, 18 September, 2023 - 9:30am
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Yes!
My little angel, Calypso, adopted 10.05.2021, is still with me on 05.17.2023, and I love her dearly. (She might be a he -- I have no idea.) She enjoys her fresh carrot slices each morning.
Sadly, I have never been able to find another of her species. I even bought an agave plant hoping to attract them, but no luck. She's definitely very, very old, but still hanging in there. If she gets turned over onto her back, I have to set her upright, but she's fairly mobile and hangs out near the carrot slices and apple slices. She's in a cage with a few other small beetles -- she's the largest of the ones in the cage.
Her pet Sphenophorus, adopted 11.08.2022, is still with me, as well:
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dvoribird
, 17 May, 2023 - 5:39pm
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