Identification please

[sbisme]

Hi All
Anyone know what these little black beetle things are on my inspection board? Good or bad?

 

[Brian Bush]

Hi Sbisme They are little black beetles. You gathered that correctly. I am afraid that the quality of the photo does not permit very clear images when it is enlarged. I think the good news is that do not think they are small hive beetle.
Probably just another beetle scavenging on your board.
They may have overwintered in your hive. Sometimes I have literally hundreds of ladybirds of differing species in hive roofs. I think it is just a good place to overwinter.

 

[deanrpwaacs]

Could be a Weevil of some kind even ?

 

[sbisme]

Thanks guys, pic is rather rubbish but that's what you get with a rubbishy phone.

I think you are right deanrpwaacs looking at the shap of them they do look more like Weevil more than beetles, thanks.

 

[Mart_got_hives]

Yep weevils. Might be able to identify them with this page:
http://www.thewcg.org.uk/pages/curculionidae.asp

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[jenkinsbrynmair]

I think on the whole - there are large and small weevils - they look like the lesser of the two

 

[For want of a better word]

I think on the whole - there are large and small weevils - they look like the lesser of the two

Pray... please explain!

Yeghes da

 

[user 6228]

Pray... please explain!

Yeghes da

he's come over all literary

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Pray... please explain!

Yeghes da

Did you not smoke that!?

 

[taurus]

Another Jack Aubrey fan?

 

[For want of a better word]

Another Jack Aubrey fan?

Like Smoke and Oakum .. then JBM is an Ex salt!

I'll get cracking on then!





Yeghes da

 

[BeeJayBee]

Another Jack Aubrey fan?

Yep!