Wheat weevil, grain weevil or granary weevil, Sitophilus granarius. Actual size A, dorsal magnified at 188 X, ventral at 188 X. Curculio granarius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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