This tiny (5mm) shiny red Leaf-Rolling Weevil (Homoeolabus analis) is perched on a beauty berry bush under a live oak tree at Frenchman's Forest Natural Area. These little gems love oak trees (especially sand live oak) but don't really harm the tree so they are cool weevils :-) The female rolls a leaf up using an elaborate system that takes about two hours and lays a single egg in the rolled leaf. The rolled leaf nursery is called a "nidus" and may then be clipped and dropped on the ground or left hanging. The larva develops tucked safely inside except, as Nature would have it, there is another weevil, Pterocolus ovatus (the Nest Thief Weevil) who will eat the egg of the leaf-rolling weevil and steal the nest for it's own larva! It eats nothing else. They call it a "kleptoparasite". So unfair after H. analis did all the work. I guess the weevil above was one of the lucky ones. Here is a more detailed explanation of the relationship: