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Weevil close-up

There are around 62,000 species of beetles that belong to the Curculionidae family spread out across the world. Their defining snout serves several purposes, including puncturing and burrowing into plants to feed and lay their eggs. Due to their hunger for agricultural plants, some species of weevil, such as grain or wheat weevils, have become pests to farmers in some areas of the world.

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