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🏴󠁨󠁵󠁰󠁥󠁿🌾RICE WEEVIL POLL🌾🏴󠁨󠁵󠁰󠁥󠁿

  • Sneak in as an 🥚 inside a rice grain 7
  • Larva eats 🍚 emerges as adult 0
  • 🪒Have sharp mandibles on snout👃🏼 3
  • Not picky eaters--love 🌽 and pasta 4
  • Weevils are smaller than 🍚 grains 0
  • 2025-03-29
  • 14 votes
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Hey Deep Peeps! If you've seen our video about rice weevils, you know that they are stowaways, entering your pantry hidden inside a grain of rice. What’s your "favorite" troublesome thing about them?  

Haven't seen our video yet about rice weevils? Watch here.

An x-ray of a rice weevil egg inside a grain of rice. (Ivan David Briceño Pinzón/ Universidade Federal de Lavras)

A close-up view of an adult rice weevil shows it looking around between grains of rice, and displaying its distinctive long snout, called a rostrum. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)

To feed and to lay its eggs, a rice weevil drills a hole in a grain of rice, using its mandibles and long snout, called a rostrum. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)

 A rice weevil walks across a corn kernel covered in fine dust, likely created during the insect’s feeding process. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)

 A rice weevil walks across grains of rice, searching for the right place to lay its eggs. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)