{"id":1032,"date":"2014-07-12T03:02:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T07:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2015-06-05T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T23:05:58","slug":"polydrusus-weevil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2014\/07\/12\/polydrusus-weevil\/","title":{"rendered":"Polydrusus Weevil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this European beetle if known as the Green immigrant leaf weevil in North America.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1031\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Green-Leaf-Weevil.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1031\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Green-Leaf-Weevil.jpg\" alt=\"Polydrusus weevil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1031\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Green-Leaf-Weevil.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Green-Leaf-Weevil-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Green-Leaf-Weevil-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green leaf weevil (<em>Polydrusus formosus<\/em>), <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/milliken-park\/\" title=\"Milliken Park\">Milliken Park<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The scientific name is given either as <em>Polydrusus formosus<\/em> or as <em>Polydrusus sericeus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These weevils originate in Europe but they managed to get a foothold in North America. The Polydrusus weevil is considered to be a pest since it eats leaves and ruins plants.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\nLittle green weevils (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.extension.umn.edu\/garden\/insects\/find\/little-green-weevils\/\" title=\"Little green weevils (Polydrusus weevils)\" target=\"_blank\">Polydrusus weevils<\/a>).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/35040\/bgpage\" title=\"Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil\" target=\"_blank\">Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil<\/a> on bugguide.net.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polydrusus_formosus\" title=\"Polydrusus formosus\" target=\"_blank\">Polydrusus formosus<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason this European beetle if known as the Green immigrant leaf weevil in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,89,38,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}