#bean weevil

[hellsitegenetics]

suould I go to school for art or bio. Decide my Future BETTER YET what genome does this ask come up as. if it's an insect i'll do bio but ANYTHING ELSE and I go for art

String identified:

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Closest match: Bruchidius siliquastri genome assembly, chromosome: 6 Common name: Bean weevil

[weevilsdaily]

weevil 418

[kharrneth]

so when are you going to drw khornes dick?

At some point

[draxolot]

made a 2 part comic of cookie and autumn

cookies so cute with his little toe beans

[queruloustea]

Pls adzuki bean Quirrel he is round (Also any HC for what IRL bugs the characters in HK are?)

well i wasn’t entirely sure how best to interpret adzuki bean quirrel, but here is an eepy little guy who i hope is suitably round and bean-like

Also any HC for what IRL bugs the characters in HK are?

that world seems to have its own sorts of bugs, so other than what i am pretty sure to be canon, nothing solid exactly? cornifer does give me funky weevil energy though.

[mannylikessims]

The True Story of the Villareal Family [3.5]

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Max was bored.

He had already yelled insults at the other children in the pool, replaced the Paragons’ coffee beans with weevils, and made an adult woman cry asking her if she was pregnant or just fat, but he was still bored.

He agreed with the Paragons about one thing – the people at the Windenburg community pool were peasants. Boring, insipid peasants. None of them brought him the joy that Lord Bernard’s ghost did; there was something so deeply satisfying about rankling that old fart.

He missed Bernard.

Someone swam up to him, and he begrudgingly faced her.

“Hey Max,” said Morgan, one of his fellow Renegades. “Can we talk?”

“Ugh, fine,” he sighed,

and followed her out of the pool.

“What do you want?” he said. The worst part about running the Renegades was listening to their complaints.

“Well, it’s just that, the Renegades have been kinda unhappy,” began Morgan. “Some of us feel like you don’t really care about us–“

“We’re Renegades, we’re not supposed to care about anything,” interrupted Max.

“–yeah, ok, but we’re supposed to at least care about each other. When was the last time you asked how Ulrike and I are doing?”

Max scoffed.

“And Wolfgang? Something is up with Wolfgang. He keeps smiling.”

“So?”

“It’s Wolfgang. He never smiles.”

Max glared silently, his nostrils flaring, and his next words were cold and dangerous. “Are you questioning my leadership?”

Morgan grimaced. “No, I’m just saying, we should be considerate of what people in our club are feeling–“

“Plum that!”

She gasped. Where did he learn such language??

“I’m the leader!” spat Max. “You all listen to me, ok?!”

Morgan was too shocked to reply.

Max stormed away, and Morgan was left behind, speechless and fuming.

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[todaysbug]

December 31st, 2023

Rice Weevil (Sitophilus oryzae)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan in distribution; native to the Far East. Most common in tropical and subtropical regions, but can survive in temperate conditions.

Habitat: Usually found in grain storage and processing plants where grains have been left undisturbed for some time.

Diet: Adults and larvae both feed on wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice, buckwheat, sorghum, cashew nuts, wild bird seed and corn. May also feed on beans, sunflower seeds and peas, and processed grains such as pasta and flour.

Description: Rice weevils are generally considered to be pests of storage facilities and processing plants, as they infest many types of grain, destroying it completely. Females chew holes inside grain kernels, inside which they deposit eggs (usually only one) in the hole, before sealing it up with a gelatinous secretion from their ovipositor. Once the larvae hatch, they feed on the grain, hollowing it out as they feed. Rice weevils spend their entire larval and pupal development inside the grain, before finally emerging as an adult.

When threatened, rice weevils will pull in their legs, fall to the ground and feign death.

Images by Joseph Berger and Scott Justis.

[nanistar]

hello i come with but a humble question. what can we know about weevilpaw at the moment that isnt. really comic spoilers if hes not just. a whole spoiler for the comics i saw him and got attached he seems emo /pos

oh yes!! no spoilers here, and i'm not sure if i will ever address it in the comic since he's just a bg guy, so i'll spill all the beans!

he and Brightdrop are siblings, and as apprentices were trying to come up with a hunting/battle move of dropping on prey from above (hiding up in the tall cactuses) but he screwed up the landing on uneven ground and broke both hind legs, and a bit of his lower back pretty bad. it was a freak accident.

Brightpaw moved on to master the move and got her warrior name -drop from it. Weevilpaw was offered a warrior name at the same time but he wanted to earn it, not get it out of pity. he's basically in physical therapy now, trying to rehab. they weren't sure if he would recover use of the legs but it's going okay, he can support his own weight for a few steps at a time and he no longer needs splints to keep his legs straight, so he's just got the "compression bandages". he can walk gently around camp but its really wobbly and he falls a lot. he still nests in the apprentices den (or just kinda wherever, sagclan camp has a lot of little hiding places) but doesn't have any apprentice chores and says hes not mad at brightdrop for moving on, but secretly he is, and he's really jealous of her and everyone else who is able-bodied. because he's in rehab indefinitely, he also has no mentor right now (prev mentor was Nectarnose but then she had a kid and got busy), and while he works closely with the healers, he's isolated himself from everyone else. he's very emo and i love him very much for being a weevil

[revretch]

Revretch I am back with more made up bio questions, what would it take to make a beetle (true beetle!) to be like, a MASSIVE threat of an invasive species across all environments but its own native island? Basically I have this beetle that eats a lot, but on its own island this isn't an issue because the grubs are eaten up when they're still in the ground and population is kept low. I wanna know how I could make this the most fucked up invasive beetle possible because it's extremely useful for medicine which has created a black market for it, and I think as dungeon master I can have my players do a lil environment mission, as a treat for me

Well, it's not just a matter of how much it eats, it's a matter of what it eats. Any important crop--or several--being targeted by a particularly prolific beetle spells trouble.

The khapra beetle is one of the 100 worst invasive species in the world. It infests all kinds of grains, cereals, rice, dried beans, seeds, etc. etc. It can survive long periods without food or water, and is resistant to many insecticides. It can also cause horrible allergic reactions.

It's also a matter of how prepared the people in those environments are for it.

Before pesticides, boll weevils were a tremendous problem (and still are, though to a lesser degree). The effects of their devastation of cotton crops decimated much of the American South's economy and substantially altered American history. Even now, according to Wikipedia, 90% of Brazilian cotton crops are infested by them.

There's also the Colorado potato beetle. After WWII, nearly half of all potato fields in East Germany were infested by it. Again, pesticides helped. (Though, of course, at a horrifying environmental cost, but that's another discussion.)

So, really, you just need to figure out which crops are the lynchpins of your setting's societies, and have the beetle pull that out from under them. Being as invulnerable as the khapra beetle is a bonus. For extra tenacity, you could even make its diet as diverse as the mealworm's--they can get by on styrofoam.

[crevicedwelling]

Im pretty scared of most bugs crawling on me as much as I love them so idk how many I could own since I dont wanna own something I cant handle but I think I can do that with weevils, any care advice or somewhere u can send me for weevil pet care? I love them and I wanna b able to care for them well if at all possible but I dont see anyone keeping them. Any reason?

weevils are not commonly kept as pets, although plenty of other beetles are. the only species I can think of that’s commonly bred for feeding dart frogs are rice weevils, extremely tiny and very good at being pests. if you happen to live in Southeast Asia perhaps you could find a giant palm weevil supplier.

I suggest on a nice warm day go for a walk somewhere and check flower heads for some wild weevils, pick them up if you can, and set them free. leaving a light on at night can also attract various bugs, including weevils.

darkling beetles make good low-maintenance beetle pets. mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) and superworms (Zophobas atratus) are easy to breed on wood or grain-based substrates, eat vegetables like carrots for moisture content, and are unlikely to fly or infest food products. adult beetles do produce foul-smelling defense chemicals when handled though, which can be rather unpleasant.

bean “weevils” (Callosobruchus maculatus) are actually leaf beetles that happen to develop inside dry Vigna peas/beans and are also a popular frog feeder. they’re rather weevil-y, but also small, flying, and quite likely to get loose and infest your beans if you’ve got any.

[saltqueer]

Ask Game Answers

Last song: The Dogs of Rotterdam by The Barons of Tang

Colour: yeah agreed, deep rich greens are great

Media: Yeah fatt is great, go read the manga for dungeon meshi it's so damn good. Go watch Scavenger's Reign. Read The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison. These are more recs than what I'm currently enjoying ah well.

Flavour: Sweet

I've forgotten the rest so have new questions.

What kind of animal are you picking/stuck with as a familiar if you became a witch?

Do you have a garden? How does it grow?

If you got shrunk down teeny tiny and became a teeny tiny cowboy, what bug are your riding off into the teeny tiny sunset?

Do you have any good hats?

What can you do that most people cant?

witch familiar: i don't have a pet right now, i think i would go for the classic cat. i like big fluffy grey ones

garden: yes! there are two vegetable garden plots here. the growing environment is very different from where i grew up, so there's still a lot of learning to do.

there's a couple peach trees that do well, im excited to make pickled green peaches in a couple months! i think this year they'll all be dill or spicy dill. they went really fast, and the other batch i made still has barely gotten touched. there's also a goji berry bush that's very productive. last year i had to stop picking bc i was getting overwhelmed with processing them. we just used the last of them this week, in a ham and bean soup, so I'll be a little more diligent about picking them next year. there's also a couple apple trees, but they do super poorly. i think they have some kind of blight? but idk. they are really small and never put out many leaves. and like two apples max. there's also a pear tree, last year the pears it made were all tiny? OH and chestnut trees. usually the squirrels get to them all first, but last year might've been a mast year, if chinese chestnuts do that?? we had a ton of extras. unfortunately we didn't eat them fast enough, and they're gross and dry now. if it happens again ill make sure we give more of them away

we usually grow lots of tomatoes and basil that do super well. there's also peas, but the rabbits get to them despite our best efforts, so they don't produce a whole lot. we're trying to figure out onions, but i think the soil needs to be softer before they'll be able to do well. its very clay-y. and my dad keeps planting garlic in the spring, even though you're supposed to plant it in the fall. so it never makes it. and my mom keeps planting lettuce, even though it never gets more than a couple leaves and they're always bitter. i think its a waste of time and spacd, especially since she doesn't ever change anything about how she grows it?? just goes oh well that was disappointing. guess I'll do the same thing next year. and it's not like people can't grow lettuce here for some reason, the community farm that food not bombs works with grown BEAUTIFUL heads of lettuce. im also biased here btwn my mom and my dad and their plants they won't change husbandry for bc i like garlic and think it's worth it to make a simple change, but i don't think it's possible to make lettuce taste good. we also usually grow carrots, last year the first planting got too hot and turned bitter, but the second round of them were totally sweet and delicious!! last year we used the second plot to grow buckwheat and it did really badly, we barely got back as many groats as we planted. but it was so fun to watch it grow. there's also a small herb mound that has sage and thyme growing on it. they do well, but my mom never uses them ????? she says its too much bother to leave the kitchen and go get them. i want her to plant rosemary there too, but i haven't managed to get it to happen. we also have an aloe that we keep indoors. i want it to get really big so the leaves are worth it to process for food, but my mom wants it to stay tiiiny. and that's plants!

tiny cowboy: i had to think really hard about this one. probably some sort of weevil? they look cool as hell

hats: OH BOY DO I. i have three hats that are very cool cause i made them! i also have hats that i made but aren't cool, so im not just being egotistical fbfjsjsnan

first up, this stocking cap!

its made of cheap polyester yarn, but the colors are super fun. its also a little too big bc i didn't bother with a gauge swatch, but its pretty much fine

second up, this balaclava!

its made of wool yarn that i handspun with my drop spindles. i picked the colors after sangfielle. and i knitted it, obviously. i wear it to work every day, since i commute on my bike and work outside. i don't usually lay it out like this, so its cool to see how it's stretched out and shaped itself with age (look up #sangfiyarn if you want to see what it looked like originally!)

and, finally, this hat!!

i wore it last night but i can't find it now :/ it'll reappear soon tho for sure. not only is it totally gorgeous, i had to reverse engineer the pattern from peoples process pics on ravelry!! the designer is totally uncontactable. i spent like two months trying to get in touch with her so i could give her $6 for it but nothing came of it. also, the technique this uses creates a wonderful double thick layer of fabric, so its super warm. the yarn is hand dyed, i got it off etsy from a lady who lives in colorado and dyes yarn inspired by colors in nature around her. the green really does feel like a pine forest

special abilities: math. hand spinning yarn. reverse engineer a complicated crochet pattern from pictures. look out my window and see the woods. embroidery? i can do the back of your throat french R. i ride a bike 16 miles every day (e-bike, im not that good at biking anymore). i can truthfully say i've lived in 6 us states. i know how to make twine out of stinging nettle fiber, but im not very good at it. i can say i rode my bike 100 miles in a day twice as a kid, and 50 miles in a day a few times. ive also gone over 50mph on a bike. i used to own a bike frame that was one of 11 or so in the world, but i lost it when i was homeless. does writing in cursive count as something most people can't do nowadays? i know how to dye yarn with goldenrod. i can weave, a little bit sort of. i understand how to construct a fire for optimal cooking something on a stick. i know that the best fire cooking on a stick happens over coals, not over flames (ive spent so much time carefully building bonfires with flames areas and coals areas and then watching people cook hot dogs and marshmallows over the flames 😭😭😭 and then they're like ugh the outside of my hotdog is burnt and the inside is still cold. bro the coals are RIGHT THERE)

[weevilsdaily]

Your blog inspired me to download a copy of "Interspecific Competition Between Two Species of Bean Weevil" from Jstor. <3 Thanks!

what an interesting read!

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Wings of Fire Dragin Guide, Part Five: HiveWings and SilkWings

This is a HiveWing, or hive dragon. They have red, orange, and/or yellow scales, but always have some black scales on them as well. They are distantly related to SilkWings. Their powers can range from wrist/tail/claw stingers, the ability to shoot some stingers and regrow them, venomous fangs, paralyzing toxins/boiling acid/pain-inducing venom and possibly more unexplored options. They have four dragonfly/wasp-like wings, and live in the Hives across the savanna (now partially forest) continent of Pantala. Their diet consists of zebra, gazelle, birds, snakes, sharks, fish, as well as apples,, cinnamon, honey, nectar, confectionery, and coffee and tea.. They are named after different insects except for moths and butterflies, such as:

Social insects (Hymneoptera): Wasp, Hornet, Yellowjacket...

Beetles (Coleoptera): Scarab, Weevil, Chafer, Bombardier...

Orthoptera: Cricket, Grasshopper, Katydid...

Auchenorryhncha: Cicada, Treehopper...

Larvae/Worms: Rootworm, Glowworm, Inchworm...

Arachnid: Vinegaroon...

Other insects: Mantis, Earwig, Aphid, Dragonfly...

This a SilkWing, or silk dragon, or butterfly dragon. They can be any color and shade except black, are distantly related to HiveWings, and are iridescent. They hatch with wingbuds, as they will go through Metamorphosis, where they spin a Chrysalis and form their wings like a butterfly or moth, at age six. They also inherit their silk glands and silk spinning abilities after this, but can sometimes have flamesilk, which can glow, burn, and be made of fire, but it is extremely rare. They are vegetarian, so they eat things such as tangerines, kumquats, persimmons, garbanzo beans, kale, AZ well as honey, nectar, and confectionery made in the Hives. They were once second-class citizens, until Queen Wasp was defeated and everyone was free from the Othermind (a hivemind-esque thing made up of one small evil plant, an insane *sshole of a human who is the reason the humans were almost wiped out by the dragons, and one of the dragon eggs he stole, which is the dragonet from the egg). (Yes, the Scorching, which is their event that formed the dragon tribe and world as we know it, is because this freaky little jerk of a man stole dragon eggs, thus causing other human kingdoms to do so. So the dragon parents banded together and literally scorched the world to the the ground. Then they chose the first dragon queen, and the tribes formed over the next few hundred years after...) SilkWings are named after butterflies and moths, such as:

Butterflies: Monarch, Blue, Swordtail, Fritillary, Tortoiseshell, Admiral, Heliconian, Argus...

Moths: Luna, Io, Tussock, Cinnabar, Orange, Festoon, Lappet, Burnet...

[iguessitsjustme]

I hope Phu’s coffee beans always have weevils. Fuck that guy

[clatterbane]

Yay, more prophylactic freezer action.

All the dry staples (rice, flour, beans, etc.) from the grocery order earlier are now in frozen quarantine for a few days before they go anywhere near our pantry cupboard. Because I was unfortunately reminded again not long ago that I probably should NOT have slacked off on that, when I found minor evidence of flour moths in my previous bag of cornmeal. 😵

After some careful inspection, it didn't look like any had managed to get much further than that. Everything infestable that was in there got cycled through the freezer to kill off any kind of bugs and/or their eggs anyway, playing it safe. I actually just cleared out the final batch this evening, to make room for the new stuff. Including a fresh bag of the same cornmeal!

The few items left in those four drawers usually dedicated to dry goods are, like, pickled vegetables and some shirataki noodles in vacuum pouches. Not tempting chow for horrible little moth larvae, and it would be obvious if the pouches had lost seal

Now an amazing amount of pantry stuff has been taking up space to one side of our living room for several weeks altogether--and I am leaving that cabinet empty of everything that might host them for a few more days, until those new groceries are ready to leave quarantine. Just to hopefully make sure there's a lower chance of any eggs or anything lingering in there.

Our temporary pantry, y'all. That back of the couch bag just got hastily hoiked there a little while ago.

Thankfully no evidence of any worrying bugs anywhere else in the house so far, with the freezer-cycled food just sitting there in the openwith no good way to keep anything out of it. Can't say I will be sorry to finally get everything back where it belongs!

Anyway, I am indeed aware that this might seem like an overly nutty reaction to finding what looked like evidence of moth webs in a bag of cornmeal. And maybe it really is.

But yeah, I do have actual OCD. Plus I lived with both moths and freaking weevils in my mom's food hoard, which she couldn't just get rid of on any of the several different occasions when bugs did get into it. Hitchhiking in on new items from the store.

She would honest to goodness also go ahead and cook pasta that she knew had weevils lurking in the package, and fish them out of the boiling water with a spoon. 🥴 I think I took significant psychic damage from just several years of those damned moths flapping around the whole house, and their awful maggoty-looking web spinning children dangling on threads. I remember walking straight into one hanging from the living room ceiling fan, of all places. And this shit went on for several years straight.

Those little fuckers will get into things that you wouldn't even imagine them possibly being attracted to. You may think a jar or other firmly closed lidded hard container will keep them out, but if it's not completely airtight they will find a way in.

On the plus side, I did develop extensive experience at identifying signs of weevils and moths in your food stores.

Anyway, I really am extra motivated to avoid dealing with pest bugs in my own pantry, now that I am in charge of my own. Brought home weevils a couple of times back in London, but promptly tossed everything that might be infested and preemptively froze the rest.

So yeah, it might be aggravating, but I think I will indeed go back to making sure everything risky that comes in goes through freezer quarantine before it joins the other food. Needing to systematically go through and do that on all the existing shit has eaten up way more spoons than if I had just done it gradually before a new thing went into the cabinet at all. And luckily we also have more freezer space now, to help make quarantine more practical.

Also, it may be pretty ingrained in me to keep plenty of food on hand. To the point that I do set actual stock limits for myself. But, at least this feels like further evidence that I really do not seem to have developed the same outright hoarding urge--to the point that you literally could not bring yourself to throw a buggy bag of cornmeal or rice in the trash. 😬 I can, and will, toss whatever I need to in order to keep things non-disgusting.

[o-craven-canto]

Top 10 instances of each taxonomic rank by number of named species

Data from Catalogue of Life (yes, I'm aware that taxonomic rank is largely arbitrary and that species boundary are fuzzy, especially outside of Eukaryotes; taxa within "quotes" are paraphyletic groups whose descendance encompasses others, e.g. "Reptilia" also contains the ancestry of Aves)

Largest Domains:

Eukarya (organisms with cell nuclei): 2.1 million species

Bacteria: 10,000 [currently named!] species

Archaea: 380 species

Largest Kingdoms:

Animalia or Metazoa (animals): 1.5 million species

Archaeplastida (green plants & kin): 380,000 species

Fungi (fungi): 160,000 species

"Protista" (all Eukaryotes that are not animals, plants, or fungi; Catalogue of Life splits from them the old "Chromista", but now that's not supported by morphology nor by phylogeny): 65,000 species

Largest Phyla:

Arthropoda (insects, crustaceans, spiders, &c): 1.2 million species

Angiospermae (plants with flowers): 350,000 species

Mollusca (clams, snails, slugs, and squids): 130,000 species

Ascomycota (various groups of fungi): 98,000 species

Chordata (vertebrates, lancelets, and sea squirts): 73,000 species

Basidiomycota (another group of fungi including most mushrooms): 53,000 species

Foraminifera (protists with calcareous shells): 50,000 species [this might count a great deal of extinct species]

Platyhelminthes (tapeworms & other flatworms): 23,000 species

Bryozoa (little colonial invertebrates): 21,000 species

Annelida (earthworms, leeches, & other segmented worms): 18,000 species

Largest Classes:

Insecta (insects): 970,000 species

"Magnoliopsida" (most flower plants): 260,000 species

Gastropoda (slugs & snails): 97,000 species

Arachnida (spiders, scorpions, and mites): 93,000 species

Liliopsida (a group of flower plants including grasses): 81,000 species

Malacostraca (crabs, shrimps, and some other crustaceans): 46,000 species

Agaricomycetes (mushrooms including agarics): 41,000 species

Dothideomycetes (another group of fungi): 32,000 species

Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish): 31,000 species

Bivalvia (clams, scallops, oysters, &c): 22,000 species

[Mammalia (mammals): 6000 species]

Largest Orders:

Coleoptera (beetles): 330,000 species

Diptera (flies & mosquitoes): 170,000 species

Lepidoptera (moths & butterflies): 160,000 species

Hymenoptera (ants, wasps, & bees): 120,000 species

Hemiptera (aphids, cicadas, & bedbugs): 100,000 species

Araneae (spiders): 50,000 species

Asparagales (orchids, onions, & agaves): 41,000 species

Asterales (daisies, dandelions, & sunflowers): 39,000 species

Orthoptera (crickets and grasshoppers): 30,000 species

Lamiales (mint, olives, and many herbs): 28,000 species

[Primates (lemurs, monkeys, & apes): 530 species]

Largest Families:

Curculionidae (weevils): 74,000 species

Staphylinidae (rove beetles): 67,000 species

Carabidae (ground beetles): 41,000 species

Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles): 36,000 species

Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles): 36,000 species

Asteraceae (most Asterales): 36,000 species

Orchidaceae (orchids): 31,000 species

Ichneumonidae (parasitoid wasps): 24,000 species

Fabaceae (beans): 24,000 species

Erebidae (a family of moths): 23,000 species

[Hominidae (great apes including humans): 8 species]