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The clay-colored billbug is a distinctive beetle species with gray and tan striped wing covers, thorax, and a long snout. The beetle’s curved beak is characteristic of all types of weevils. The mid-sized stripy beetle grows 0.5” to 0.75” (13 – 19 mm) long.
Although called a bug, the beetle is not a true bug in the order Hemiptera. Instead, it’s a gray to tan-colored insect in the beetle order Coleoptera and family Curculionidae.
Clay-colored weevils can do a lot of damage to corn crops when they emerge from the soil in May. The small beetles chew three or four holes in leaves with their beaks, and they can kill small plants. The bug-like beetles usually have a thin covering of soil on their backs.
The clay-colored billbug is a distinctive beetle species with gray and tan striped wing covers, thorax, and a long snout. The beetle’s curved beak is characteristic of all types of weevils. The mid-sized stripy beetle grows 0.5” to 0.75” (13 – 19 mm) long.
Although called a bug, the beetle is not a true bug in the order Hemiptera. Instead, it’s a gray to tan-colored insect in the beetle order Coleoptera and family Curculionidae.
Clay-colored weevils can do a lot of damage to corn crops when they emerge from the soil in May. The small beetles chew three or four holes in leaves with their beaks, and they can kill small plants. The bug-like beetles usually have a thin covering of soil on their backs.