Can you identify this bug? - Ask Extension
These bugs are popping up everywhere in the home and garden. Just don't know what it is or how to get rid of them
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Can you identify this bug? #871360
Asked June 03, 2024, 3:40 PM EDT
These bugs are popping up everywhere in the home and garden. Just don't know what it is or how to get rid of them
Kalkaska County Michigan
Expert Response
The pictures are blurry. Ii appears to be black vine weevil. Look at your insect to see if it has tiny whiteish markings along the back like the pictures here—
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/black-vine-weevil
https://extension.psu.edu/black-vine-weevil
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/black-vine-weevil/
The above links describe how to trap adults and insecticides that help manage this weevil. Indoors they maybe swept up, or use insecticide labeled for indoors.
If yours doesn’t appear to be a match, please freeze some undamaged specimens and photograph them on a plain background without a plastic covering. Attach your new pictures here.
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/black-vine-weevil
https://extension.psu.edu/black-vine-weevil
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/black-vine-weevil/
The above links describe how to trap adults and insecticides that help manage this weevil. Indoors they maybe swept up, or use insecticide labeled for indoors.
If yours doesn’t appear to be a match, please freeze some undamaged specimens and photograph them on a plain background without a plastic covering. Attach your new pictures here.
