It can cause significant damage to harvested stored grains and may drastically decrease crop yields.

The females lay many eggs and the larvae eat the inside of the grain kernels.

Adult wheat weevils are about 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long with elongated snouts and chewing mouth parts.

Adult wheat weevils when threatened or disturbed will pull their legs close to their bodies and feign death.

Unfortunately the impact of wheat weevils worldwide is unknown because information is not well shared.

The weevils are hard to detect and usually all of the grain in an infested storage facility must be destroyed.

Grains should be stored in preferably metallic (cardboard, even fortified, is easily drilled through by the weevil) containers with tight lids in a refrigerator or a freezer, and should be purchased in small quantities.