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Welcome to the WWW

Wonderful World of Weevils, that is. The trouble with the pesticide-free wildlife garden is that some of the resulting wildlife has a destructive tendency; luckily, most weevils are limited in the range of plants they attack, and several of these seem to prefer nettles to anything else. And they are quite cute, really.

Weevils (Cionus scrophulariae)Weevil on nettles (Polydrusus sp.)

WeevilWeevil (Cionius scrophulariae - Figwort weevil)

Green weevil (Phyllobius pomaceus)Weevil (Cionus alauda)

Weevil (Cionus alauda)You can tell I'm not a gardener

Brown-legged weevilWeevil (Otiorhynchus scaber)

Copper-coloured weevil (Sciaphilus asperatus)

This entry was posted on 13 May 2009 at 22:10 and is filed under garden, insects, oxfordshire, photography, wildlife with tags , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Welcome to the WWW”

  1. Thomas Says:
    19 May 2009 at 13:25

    You are the expert at this line of photography. I admire your patience and attention to the use of flash. Awesome buddy.

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  2. Bird Says:
    27 May 2009 at 11:08

    Weevils have such wonderful head shapes – some are quite cute as you say… the fourth one down has a great elephant’s trunk!

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