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🏴🌾RICE WEEVIL POLL🌾🏴
🕑 Added 2025-03-29 01:31:31 +0000 UTCHey Deep Peeps! If you've seen our video about rice weevils, you know that they are stowaways, entering your pantry hidden inside a grain of rice. What’s your "favorite" troublesome thing about them?
Haven't seen our video yet about rice weevils? Watch here.
An x-ray of a rice weevil egg inside a grain of rice. (Ivan David Briceño Pinzón/ Universidade Federal de Lavras)
A close-up view of an adult rice weevil shows it looking around between grains of rice, and displaying its distinctive long snout, called a rostrum. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)
To feed and to lay its eggs, a rice weevil drills a hole in a grain of rice, using its mandibles and long snout, called a rostrum. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)
A rice weevil walks across a corn kernel covered in fine dust, likely created during the insect’s feeding process. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)
A rice weevil walks across grains of rice, searching for the right place to lay its eggs. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)
Comments
Julian Yeo (dm29)
So much ruined pasta... 💔
