I found this headed to my garden. Is that a bad thing?
The first pic is of just him; the second pic is him next to a quater for scale and the third is him upside down.
https://s1128.photobucket.com/albums/m484/76gunner/Bug%20ID/
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Yeah, beats me. I looked around on the net last night and saw nothing like it. The snout is weevilish, but it's too big to be a weevil of any kind. Red and black beetles googled gives me nothing with that pattern. The proboscis is not a good indicator of garden friendly bugs. Of course, maybe it's used to skewer tomato hornworms or something...
Our bugs are just generally really healthy, somewhat trainable to a leash, but rarely respond when you call them. A Miami bug could be an alien hitchhiker, from fruit or cruise ships or smuggelled plant matter.
Our bugs are just generally really healthy, somewhat trainable to a leash, but rarely respond when you call them. A Miami bug could be an alien hitchhiker, from fruit or cruise ships or smuggelled plant matter.
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Actually you're right. It's a weevil, which is in the beetle family. Palmetto Weevil to be exact. And since I really don't care for palmetto trees -- they devistate the palmetto trees -- I'm glad I spared his life. They're native to Florida https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/palmetto_weevil.htmthanrose wrote:Yeah, beats me. I looked around on the net last night and saw nothing like it. The snout is weevilish, but it's too big to be a weevil of any kind. Red and black beetles googled gives me nothing with that pattern. The proboscis is not a good indicator of garden friendly bugs. Of course, maybe it's used to skewer tomato hornworms or something...
Our bugs are just generally really healthy, somewhat trainable to a leash, but rarely respond when you call them. A Miami bug could be an alien hitchhiker, from fruit or cruise ships or smuggelled plant matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTjFmXXRlGg
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