Curculio elephas - Esskastanienbohrer
This white puppy i found today outside of some chestnuts in a box, where it had been feeding in a nut. Well, you can eat it as well, even raw.
The chestnut weevil, Curculio elephas, is a weevil native to southern and central Europe, which feeds on the seeds (nuts) of chestnuts and oaks.
Adult weevils emerge from the soil in August and September and cause feeding damage by piercing nuts with their long, slender snout. After feeding, female weevils turn around and deposit one to several eggs in each nut through the feeding hole. Upon hatching, the larvae or "grubs" consume the nut meat. Kernels of infested nuts are often completely eaten. After feeding inside the nut for about a month, the larvae chew their way out of the nut and enter the soil. They remain in the soil as larvae over the winter, pupating in late June. The complete life cycle requires one year.
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Aww!... . .
does not happen with that one but when eating Casu Marzu u may get Myiasis! horrible.
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