Oak trees produced a banner crop of acorns this year. Close inspection may reveal acorns with tiny holes the size of pencil points. These are exit holes from acorn weevil larvae. A female acorn weevil drills a hole in a developing nut with her long snout and deposits eggs inside the shell. Larvae (small whitish grubs) hatch and eat the acorn meat. After the nut falls, larvae drill out and burrow into the soil, where they spend the winter as pupae.

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