Weevils

There are more species of weevils than of any other family of animals or plants on earth. The exact number is not known. In recent years, the family Curcu1ionidae, which once included all the weevils, has been subdivided and several smaller families have been split off from it, but even so the remaining Curcu1ionidae constitute the largest family in the world. A conservative estimate of the number of known weevil species is 40,000.

In Britain we have relatively few species, about 570, and there are more species of rove beetle (Staphylinidae) and parasitic wasps (Ichneumonidae) than of weevils. Nevertheless, the number of weevils is considerable, yet we seldom see them unless we actively search for them. How do we go about finding them?

Author: M.G.Morris
Publisher: Richmond Publishing
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