Can a insect in the form of a fly (like fruitfly) be able to DRILL a HOLE in a round object by using a power-driller-like instrument?
I know bees can drill the flowers to collect honey?
I need the name and picture of each such insect.
What are the list of insects that can "drill" a hole in a "round fruit"?
There are any number of insects that can drill or bore into fruits, galls, or even hard wood.
They don't really drill in the sense of using a tool, or instrument, but chew a hole using their mouthparts.
There are entire families of gall-forming wasps, midge flies, adelgids, fruit boring flies, and representatives of dozens of beetle families that can do this, a list of all of them would be hundreds of pages long.
Some examples include:
Fruit flies (Tephritidae) 4500 species
Gall midges (Cecidomyidae) 3000+ species
Gall wasps (Cynipidae) 1400 species
Gall adelgids (Adelgidae)
Drugstore beetles (Anobiidae)
Long-horned beetles (Cerambycidae) 20000 species
Metallic wood-boring beetles (Buprestidae) 15000 species
Bark Beetles (Scolytidae) 6000 species
various weevils (Curculionidae) 60000 species
Powder-post beetles (Bostrichidae)
There are also other individual species that can bore round holes, including some Tortricid moths and caterpillars (like the one that causes Mexican jumping beans).
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