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Seeking acorns

Seeking acorns

An Acorn Weevil, Curculio glandium on an oak leaf, the female uses a pair of tooth like appenadages at the end of the extraordinary rostrum to brill into acorns...
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An Acorn Weevil, Curculio glandium on an oak leaf, the female uses a pair of tooth like appenadages at the end of the extraordinary rostrum to brill into acorns, she then lays an egg in the hole and the when the larvae hatches it feeds from the acorn.
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