#attelabidae

[onenicebugperday]

Giraffe leaf-rolling weevil, Paracycnotrachelus sp., Attelabidae

Photographed in Indonesia by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

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[bowelfly]

this month's bugs. the outrageous one at the top right is real, Austrospirachtha carrijoi, a rove beetle that parasitizes termite nests

[taken-for-forest]

Compsapoderus erythropterus, family Attelabidae

June 2025

he's very polite

[razehider]

an oak leaf-roller (Attelabus nitens) working on, shockingly, an oak leaf. after being cut up and rolled it's now fairly unrecognizable, all white and fuzzy, and when she's done it will be a little cigar for her children to dwell in, similar to the one on the right

(May 21st, 2025)

[coffeenuts]

[mushiniwa]

[cnestus]

Thief Weevil, Pterocolus ovatus (Attelabiae), an egg predator and nest thief of the oak leaf-rolling weevil Homoeolabus analis

[rattyexplores]

Euops Weevil

Unidentified, genus Euops

24/03/23 - NSW, Dapto