Citrus under attack!

Even newer update: It looks as if the weevil in question is actually an elephant weevil, not an apple weevil. Thanks to Justin from the gardening forum for the ID!


Update: Mystery solved! The excellent @angrygoat has identified the bug as an apple weevil (view PDF). More news to follow.

It's taken a bit of a drama to get me off my butt and posting, but here I am. I need some help!

I glanced over one of my orange trees the other day, just to see how the handful of golf ball sized fruits were coming along. Disaster!

Who's eating my tree??

There are nibbles all over the branches! On the fresh green growth and also old dead growth. There's enough of it that I think I really need to knock the culprit on the head before the poor tree ends up under too much stress to cope with. I've been out and peered at the tree several times, but I can't see any critters. What should I be looking for? Snails? Slugs? Caterpillars? Help! :)

Second problem: some critter has damaged two of the biggest, prettiest fruits :( I think it might have been a caterpillar in a little cocoon between the two fruits. Humbug! I wonder if it's the same critter gnawing on the branches?

Such pretty oranges =/

In other (hopefully better) news, I found a really interesting critter on the tree, too!

Mysterious critter

And another shot:

What even is it?

I'm assuming he's a spider?? But he seems to be holding his front legs in a very funny way. I have consulted an excellent* book I got for Christmas: "Guide to the Wildlife of the Perth Region". The closest things are:

- Embroidered Twig Spider (Arancidae Poltys salebrosus)

- Bark Crab Spider (Thomisidae Stephanopis palliolata)

... but to be honest, neither of them seem that likely. Is it even a spider? I don't know!

Oh, but more definitively - on the same page in the book is the Slender Green Crab Spider - I found one of these on my car not long ago! My car's pretty good at collecting insects, for that matter - the other day I forced Chris to pull over in a slightly dramatic fashion when I noticed a stick insect clinging on for dear life on the windscreen. Unfortunately I had to leave him in somebody else's garden, which felt very unfair to my garden. Still, at least they're around!

Please comment if you have any ideas on who's doing the nibbling, or what the little critter is :)

*Well, perhaps mostly excellent. In several places it uses "accepting" when it clearly means "excepting" o.O