Imagine living your life with a 10-foot–long straw fastened to your face, like this acorn weevil does. That protrusion, called a rostrum, is highly useful for the weevil, however, allowing it to feed ...

While short-snouted acorn weevil grubs also are commonly found in acorns, only the long-snouted weevil can drill holes through the shells of acorns. The grubs, ...

This fuzzy acorn weevil uses her snout to drill through an acorn's shell. This fuzzy acorn weevil can’t crack open acorns like a woodpecker or chomp through them like a squirrel.

Weevils use their snout to open the acorn by drilling and burrowing, continuously rotating it back and forth until they reach a sufficient depth. At the end of the weevil’s snout are sharp ...

Weevils have a very long snout, which females use to bore small holes into a developing nut or seed, placing her egg inside.

The acorn weevil and acorn moth are two insects that rely on acorns to complete their life cycles. Acorn weevils include both long-snouted and short-snouted species.

These weevils can be a significant threat to acorn-bearing trees, because acorns that contain weevil eggs or larvae cannot germinate; sometimes, 70% to 90% of a tree’s acorns will be unable to ...