The weevils are mostly quite small beetles in which the front of the head id drawn out to form a beak or rostrum with the jaws at its tip. The antenna are elbowed and normally attached part way along the rostrum. The elytra are often clothed with scales. Many species are flightless and their elytra are commonly fused together. The majority of weevils are vegetarians, their larvae mostly without legs and generally living inside the stems, fruits, seeds of their food-plants. There are nearly 600 British species, arranged in several families.

Vine Weevil Otiorhynchus sulcatus Family Curculionidae
The scape of the antennae is longer than the width of the pronotum. The elytra are parallel-sided with irregular patches of yellowish scales and each bears a row of shiny raised tubercles. The femora are toothed below. This weevil is a troublesome garden pest: the adults chew the leaves and shoots of many plants, but the larvae do the most damage by destroying roots, mainly those of pot plants and greenhouse crops. There are several similar species.

Collins Complete Guide to British Insects by Michael Chinery