The snout of a red palm weevil, rhynchophorus ferrugineus, looking much like a stylish dinosaur boxer.
the wackiest thing about this weevil’s face though for those who didn’t already notice:
It can see underneath its snoot
oh oh another thing I love about this beetle
While some beetles have distinct “necks,” you can see how this weevil’s head is nestled in a socket like a “ball joint” almost.
So there’s a fringe of little yellow lashes all along the bottom, which we can presume are there for the same reason as our eyelashes to help keep dirt and dust out of the socket!
It doesn’t have a matching set of lashes on the top, so that also tells you it seldom has to angle its head further upward from the default position, or possibly can’t do so at all.
