Upper Midwest Stem Insect Survey

Stem borer (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Bidens

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Record no.:0796
Feeding guild:Stem borer
Taxonomy:Coleoptera: Curculionidae: cf. Baridinae
Stages observed:trace, adult
Hosts in Bidens:undetermined B. sp. (beggarticks)

An adult of this weevil emerged from the lower end of an 11" piece of stem that I had been keeping in a rearing container because I had discovered a Lepidoptera larva (apparently Epiblema otiosana, record 0096) tunneling in the upper end. I collected the stem on 25 July and the adult weevil emerged on 03 September. In a review of my notes from that rearing, the fate of the caterpillar from the same stem was unclear.

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