Adult
A small beetle, 3.5-6.0 mm long, with a long snout, dark brown to black, covered with brown, greyish and whitish hairs and mottled, with a V-shaped mark across the elytra and a prominent whitish spot between the elytra and thorax.
Egg
0.7 x 0.5 mm, oval, white and translucent.
Eggs are laid on an anther lobe inside the flower bud.
Larva
Up to 8 mm long, white with a dark brown head, leg-less, body yellowish when fully grown. Found in capped blossoms.
Pupa
4-5 mm long, pale yellow.
Found inside capped blossoms.