There are also beetles in this world with long necks like giraffes and elephant noses!
These beetles are called brown long-necked curly-leaf weevils, and they belong to a species of weevil beetle, and there are 60,000 known species of weevil beetles, and their distinctive feature is the length of the mouth organs as long as the elephant trunk. The brown long-necked curled leaf weevil not only has a long mouthpiece, but also a long neck, like a giraffe with an elephant's nose!
The males of the brown long-necked curled weevil are about 13 to 16 mm long and the females are about 6 to 11 mm long. This beetle has a long neck that only males have, and females have shorter necks that don't look much different from ordinary beetles.
The brown long-necked curl leaf weevil has a bright reddish-brown body and black markings on its legs, which looks like a dazzling ruby.
This beetle is endemic to Taiwan, distributed in low-altitude mountainous areas, and the host plants are mountain osmanthus flower, pu tree, water golden jing, tree berry, nine-section wood, red nan and other plants. Usually, adult insects will hide in the back of leaves during the day, and they will be alert and fall to the ground in case of danger.
Every year in March, the season when the brown long-necked curlew weevil begins to come alive, and if you pay attention to the north side of the leaves in the low-altitude forest, you will often see this magical beetle infested.
In addition to its peculiar appearance, the brown long-necked curlew weevil breeds differently, with females rolling leaves to nest and lay eggs.
Before the female lays her eggs, she wraps a leaf curl cradle with leaves. When wrapping, the female worm will cut the leaves through the mouthparts, and poke out nearly a hundred small holes in the leaves, cut the leaf fibers to avoid leaf rebound when wrapping, the whole wrapping process takes more than 3 hours, and then the female worm lays an egg in the cradle, and after the larva hatches, she can eat the young leaves prepared by the mother in this cradle.