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snout beetle

noun

A weevil; specifically, a (beetle belonging to the family Curculionidae)

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In contrast, mortality of the specialist Melaleuca snout beetle differed by 64%% (Dray et al. 2004) and mass of female adults by 6.3%% (Wheeler 2006) between two terpenoid chemotypes of the invasive weed Melaleuca quinquenervia.

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Scolytinae (bark beetles, ambrosia beetles) do not have a distinct snout and are usually cylindrical in shape, as are Platypodinae.

The two species of Sulawesi ground squirrel (genus Hyosciurus) have elongated snouts and use their long, strong claws to dig for beetle larvae in rotting wood; they also eat acorns.

In a study conducted in New England in New South Wales, 37% of the food intake consisted of beetle larvae, although the echidna had to squash the prey in its snout as it ingested it, due to size.

Or snout.

Beyond reasonable snout?

"Trotter to snout".

Once again, snout works.

Its snout twitches.

Rhino beetle larvae.

McBride stood beside her snout.

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