snout beetle

snout beetle: see weevil.

or snout beetle

Any of about 40,000 beetle species in the largest family of beetles, Curculionidae, which is also the largest family in the animal kingdom. Most weevils have long, elbowed antennae that may fold into special grooves on the prominent snout. Many species are wingless. Most species are less than 0.25 in. (6 mm) long, are plainly coloured and marked, and feed exclusively on plants. Some species are more than 3 in. (80 mm) long. The larvae may feed on only a certain part of a plant or a single plant species; adults are less specialized. The family includes many destructive pests, including the boll weevil.

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Small beetle (Anthonomus grandis) found almost everywhere cotton is cultivated. It is the most serious cotton pest in North America. Adults vary in size according to how much food they received as larvae, but they average about 0.25 in. (6 mm) long, including the long, curved snout. In the spring adults deposit eggs in cotton buds or fruit. After hatching, the larvae live within the cotton boll, destroying the seeds and surrounding fibres. Because the larvae and pupae remain inside the cotton bolls, they cannot be killed with insecticides. The boll weevil destroys an estimated three to five million bales of cotton annually.

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A snout is the protruding portion of an animal's face.

Snout may also refer to:

• The snout reflex, in neurology, an abnormal pursing of the lips indicative of brain damage
• Snout house, a house that is constructed with an attached front entry garage that is closer to the street than any other part of the house
• Weasel's snout, a herbaceous annual plant of the family Plantaginaceae
• Cauldron Snout, a waterfall on the River Tees in Northern England
• Tom Snout, a fictional character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Snout Spout, a character in the media franchise Masters of the Universe
• Snout, an Australian band active in the 1990s
• The terminus of a glacier

Animals:

• Broad-snouted caiman
• Long-snouted pipefish
• Long-snouted spinner dolphin
• Rough Snouted Giant Gecko
• Sharp snouted piranha
• Short-Snouted New Caledonian Gecko
• Slender-snouted Crocodile
• Snout beetle
• Snout butterfly
• Snout moth
• Snouted night adder

Snout may be slang for:

• A nose
• An informer
• A member of the Protestant community of Northern Ireland
• Tobacco, in British prison slang