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Cabbage seed weevil - Ceutorhynchus assimilis - Family: Curculionidae

Cabbage seed weevil - Ceutorhynchus assimilisCabbage seed weevil - Ceutorhynchus assimilis
© Roger Key/English Nature
UK distribution - East Anglia, Midlands, North, South East, South West

This black weevil has a fine pile of white scales, giving it an overall grey appearance. It has a long proboscis.

A pest of oilseed rape, this species is pretty harmless in the garden and is to be found on many members of the cabbage family, including sweet Alison, honesty and wallflower, as well as on vegetables such as radish, cabbage and turnip, making tiny round holes in the leaves. It is very common and widely distributed.

Food

Plant-feeder on almost any member of the cabbage family including garden vegetables, also wild species such as hedge mustard. Adults feed on the leaves and larvae live in the seed pods.

Plants

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