Cranberry Weevil - Cooperative Extension: Cranberries - University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Order: Coleoptera || Family: Curculionidae (weevils or snout beetles) || Subfamily: Anthonominae Scientific Name: Anthonomus musculus (Say)

: Magnified view of a Cranberry weevil next to a U.S. penny

: Cranberry weevil (on the rim of a 12″-diameter insect sweep net)

: Cranberry weevil (on the rim of a 12″-diameter insect sweep net)

: Pair of Cranberry weevils that are mating

: Cranberry weevil

: A Cranberry weevil resting on a sweep net (photographed June 17th)

: Cranberry weevil

: Cranberry weevil adults on the rim of an empty baby-food jar

: Magnified view of a Cranberry weevil

: Cranberry weevil feeding and oviposition scarring damage to an unopened cranberry flower (i.e. pod or bud)

: Another photo showing heavy damage to a cranberry flower caused by Cranberry weevil

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: Cranberry leaves with feeding injury caused by Cranberry weevils

: Wild (lowbush) blueberry leaves showing numerous small holes as a result of feeding by cranberry weevils

This tiny beetle is native to North America, and it has a wide host range. Besides cranberry–as its name naturally suggests–it is also found commonly on black huckleberry, wild and cultivated blueberry, swamp sweetbells,