Saturday, November 19, 2011

What are the list of insects that can "drill" a hole in a "round fruit"?

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).
Reply:the pecan weevil, twig girdler, stink bug and aphids


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