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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionoidea) » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Molytinae » Rhyssomatus » Rhyssomatus palmacollis
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Weevil drinking Milkweed Juices - Rhyssomatus palmacollis
Copyright © 2006 Bill Johnson

Weevil drinking Milkweed Juices - Rhyssomatus palmacollis
Media - Tyler Arboretum, Pennsylvania, USA
June 29, 2006
I know of several other beetles and butterflies that can handle the chemistry in Milkweed sap, but I hadn't seen a weevil doing this. Any ID as to what it is? Thanks.
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Contributed by Bill Johnson on 8 July, 2006 - 11:29pm
Last updated 26 January, 2009 - 12:15pm

Moved
Moved from Milkweed Stem Weevil.
… Beatriz Moisset, 26 January, 2009 - 12:15pm login or register to post comments

Rh. palmacollis (Say, 1831)
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… v belov, 25 January, 2009 - 6:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Snout and Bark Beetles.
… Boris Büche, 29 March, 2007 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 14 September, 2006 - 9:39am login or register to post comments

Milkweed stem weevil
There is a weevil that feeds on milkweed stems and I have seen quite a few of them lately. I haven't submitted one yet. See here
… Beatriz Moisset, 20 July, 2006 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

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