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Vadim Strykalo, 30.08.2016 13:26

Recently, weevil beetles started appearing in my house. I began to collect them and throw them away, and then decided to breed them. I keep it in a small container, light - and air-permeable. I feed them regularly. At the moment, the "colony" has several dozen individuals of different species of the genus Otiorhynchus (in total, about 70 species of weevils in the region). Can you tell me what to feed them? Or create certain conditions? Another question: how do you distinguish their eggs from "surplus production"?

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30.08.2016 13:35, Evgeny Komarov

Vadim, I know of 306 species in the Volgograd Region, and there are actually at least 400 species of weevils. There are 12 species of the genus Otiorhynchus reliably known from the region . Give us photos to at least understand what species we are talking about, because species of this genus, as a rule, do not live in houses - these are steppe, mountain, and less often forest-steppe species.

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