Strawberry Root Weevil

This weevil was in a corner of the bathroom on August 4, 2024. It is another one of those that are about the size of an uncooked rice grain. It had gotten tangled up in an abandoned spiderweb, which is why it has all that stuff stuck to it.

That’s the side of my finger it is crawling on, if you want a better idea of the scale.

It is clearly one of the thousands of species of broad-nosed weevils in the subfamily Entiminae, but which one?

Among the possibilities that Google Lens suggests is the Strawberry Root Weevil, Otiorhynchus ovatus, and I agree they have a point. The body morphology is right, the legs are the correct color and bulge the right way, the spurs on the front femurs are there, and the antennae have the same little kink and slightly fuzzy tips. And, the kicker is that they are an introduced species from Eurasia that has become exceedingly common all across the US, including Michigan.
In spite of the name, their larvae do not exclusively feed on strawberry roots. They also go after a variety of tree seedlings. Since strawberries are in the family Rosaceae, which also includes (obviously) roses, as well as (less obviously) apples, pears, plums, cherries, raspberries, and blackberries, it is likely that these weevils feed on the roots of all of these plants. It is only the larvae that eat roots, the adults come out at night and feed on leaves and fruits.
The adults can be very numerous and regularly get into houses in late summer and autumn looking for a place to hibernate. Like this one evidently was. I am not finding any information suggesting that they are particularly serious crop pests, although they sometimes get numerous enough in plant nurseries and greenhouses to be a problem for seedling plants. So, I guess we can pretty much ignore them. They’ll provide food for the spiders around the house, anyway.