Polydrusus sericeus, also known as the green immigrant leaf weevil, is sometimes found in large numbers in nurseries in the late spring / early summer. This weevil is European in origin and first found in New York in 1906. They are reported to feed on leaves of trees such as apple, birch, oak, pear, poplar, strawberry and willow. They are rarely considered a pest. Their feeding can be more of a problem on smaller, liner-sized plant material. Their larvae feed on roots.

There are over 35,000 species of weevil, with more than 2,500 species in the United States and Canada alone. All are strictly herbivorous.  Weevil is the common name for beetles of the snout beetle family Curculionidae.

The mouthparts of snout beetles are modified into down-curved snouts adapted for boring into plants; the jaws are at the end of the snout. The bent antennae usually project from the middle of the snout. In the case of many weevils, the snout can actually be longer than the body.

Order Coleoptera: Beetles are the dominant form of life on earth: one of every five living species is a beetle. Coleoptera is the largest order in the animal kingdom, containing a third of all insect species. There are about 300,000 known species worldwide, 30,000 of which live in North America. Beetles have the most complex form of metamorphosis, called complete metamorphosis, or holometabolous development, which includes four distinct phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult--Beetles Index | Family Coccinellidae - Ladybird Beetles
 

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