Colour Variants: Couple on Corylus avellana

on Crataegus

Length: 3-5.9mm

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult
?	?	?	May - August (Earliest: 4.5)

Biotopes:	Hedge Rows	Gardens
Food: (Larva) (Polyphagous)	Phleum pratense Roots	Fragaria vesca Roots	Prunus spinosa Roots
Possible Food: (Larva) (Polyphagous)	Poa Roots	Rumex Roots	Lamium Roots
Food: (Adult) (Polyphagous)	Crataegus	Malus sylvestris	Salix cinerea	Corylus avellana
	Quercus robur	Sambucus nigra
Possible Food: (Adult) (Polyphagous)	Populus	Acer
Possible Parasitoids:	Many Ichneumonidae Larvae	Many Braconidae Larvae

UK Beetles: Phyllobius oblongus
Nature Spot: Phyllobius oblongus
Plant Parasites of Europe: Phyllobius oblongus

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