Vegetable weevil
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Order: Coleoptera
Family: Curculionidae
Size range
- Adults up to 10mm
Distribution
- From South America, now widespread in NZ.
Life History
- Both adult and larvae feed on leaves, common on silverbeet
- Females only
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