Wednesday 25 June 2014

Weevil

Yesterday was a day of discoveries - see earlier post about the Swordle bird - one of which was this weevil which appeared on the windowsill while the Diary was reading the newspaper and enjoying a glass of wine and trying not to be drawn in to watching the World Cup.  It was a good centimetre long, and one of the weirdest of beasties, having a trunk a bit like an elephant's, under which it seemed to be smoking a pipe, and strange, upturned claws on its feet.  A look through this wonderful website suggests it may be a pine weevil - which isn't good news as most of our house is made of pine, including the windowsill on which he was sitting.

It was altogether a strange day yesterday, humid and cloudy with a thick haze obscuring the horizon.  The clouds didn't bring any rain, which we're beginning to need for the garden, but today promises to be wetter.

3 comments:

  1. There was probably an ever bigger one somewhere nearby, this was just the lesser of two weevils!

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  2. I was going to do that joke!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  3. We saw these regularly in Kilchoan on holiday in mid June. I hope they're healthy biodiversity not a threat to biosecurity. They seem to walk about the walls a lot and have sticky feet so we called them velcro bugs. When they fly their landing technique is to throw themselves, hard, at a wall so they stick and have time to fold their wings away.

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