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Whuzzatby *DanShive

Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Invertebrates

I have no idea what this critter is (other than an insect), but it was on my car a couple of days ago. The large version in the lower-right corner is as good an image as I got of it with my 6.0 megapixel camera at 100% size, while the rest is to give a suggestion of scale. That huge, dark chasm beyond the insect towards the top of the image? The small gap created by the trunk of the car.

I actually thought it might be a tick at first, but ticks have eight legs. This guy only had six, and they look like they have tiny little pairs of toes. It had an elephant-like snout with antennae coming out of it... what the gingersnaps is this thing?

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~thesimmsonian Mar 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Looks more like a Stone Fruit Weevil than an Acorn Weevil.
Then again... it could just be another brain sucking alien.

*RuppRider73 Mar 28, 2011

Numerous Google image searches prove to me that it is indeed an acorn weevil.

~amysikey May 31, 2010

ugh i hope i never run into a weevil

~Sabre-Night Apr 21, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

well it's the lesser of two weevils!

~DragonLord3434 Jul 18, 2009

O.o it looks like 1 of those bugs that r infected with blacklight (concept for infection spreading in story board for [prototype])swat it next time u c it XP

~Dreathe Oct 17, 2008

A few people back there said it was an acorn weevil... Personally, I don't agree: Its legs are thicker and all of uniform length, that is, the front two aren't a lot longer than the back four. The bristles on it's wing cases are thicker and stick out more, and its body is a lot thicker. It probably wouldn't be able to chew into an acorn without those enlarged front legs to help it get a grip.

*RuppRider73 Mar 28, 2011

@ Dreathe: Do a Google image search for acorn weevil; also look it up on Wikipedia and a few other sites. That's what helped me make up my mind. Remember this thing is less than a quarter-inch long. This is probably a male; the snouts are longer on the females.

~Vaxl Mar 4, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

Hmmm

well

Now that I think of it, it's not as GROSS as an evil weevil. It's cuter. <3 But I still don't know what it is. D:

~NekoBakemono Sep 27, 2008

It's both Scarry and cute, You were lucky just to have a camera in hand

~Alkedan Sep 2, 2008

I say alien.

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