Hypera rumicis

Size 4 or 5 mm. A pale buff coloured weevil with variable darker brown markings on the elytra. Has flat scales and a few flattened bristles. Usually found on docks. See ID guidance below for more details.

• 4-5mm
• usually found on Dock
• long rostrum with hairs past the antenna
• flat, blunt scales with a few flattened bristles
• pronotum narrow at base so elytra have prominent shoulders
• elytral sutural striae not converging to the suture

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Areas containing dock, even in damp conditions.

Late spring and summer.

Feeds on docks and some other plants. The larva develops inside a woven spherical cage about 7 mm across.

Fairly frequent in England and Wales.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.