insect ID

[anakha]

Found this guy under my carport... body length of roughly 1/4" and the proboscis is about the same length... VERY hard carapace. I thought it was a spider on my foot and thumped the hell out of him and didn't hurt him

 

[LabRat]

boll weevil??

 

[anakha]

Never would have guessed that, I live in the middle of west Monroe. No cotton fields for miles

 

[thatguy]

Definitely a weevil of some sort. It could be a pecan weevil, they come out September through October.

 

[kcinnick]

I threw an ingot of lead on one, sucker still kept going. The squirrels already ate all my pecans, now these things.

 

[Scuttle B]

Pecan weevil makes sense since we have several pecan trees around our house. I've just never seen one like this and we've been here 6 years. I thought it was a tick at first glance. I would just like to know what it is for sure, not only to satisfy my curiosity but I have animals and I want to know if this is some type of dangerous little critter.
I had a few people tell me it looked like a bed bug but after researching I've determined its definitely not a bed bug.

 

[highstandard40]

Here you go.

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2007/10/22/pecan-weevil/

 

[thatguy]

If you find immature pecans on the ground with holes drilled in them, and mature pecans with the guts eaten out, you have pecan weevils.