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Massive outbreaks of mountain pine beetles in western North America after about 2005 have killed millions of acres of forest from New Mexico to British Columbia. [20] Bark beetles enter trees by boring holes in the bark of the tree, sometimes using the lenticels, or the pores plants use for gas exchange, to pass through the bark of the tree. [3]
The sole species, Hylotrupes bajulus, is known by several common names, including house longhorn beetle, old house borer, [1] and European house borer. [2] In South Africa it also is known as the Italian beetle because of infested packing cases that had come from Italy. [3] Hylotrupes is the only genus in the tribe Hylotrupini.
Common names include pine sawyer, western pine sawyer, spined woodborer, and ponderosa pine borer. [2] A taxonomic synonym is Ergates spiculatus. [2] This beetle species develops on fallen ponderosa pines and Douglas firs. [3] T. spiculatus is the largest species of wood boring beetle in Colorado. [3]
A lodgepole pine tree infested by the mountain pine beetle, with visible pitch tubes. Beetles develop through four stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult.Except for a few days during the summer when adults emerge from brood trees and fly to attack new host trees, all life stages are spent beneath the bark.
Dendroctonus frontalis, the southern pine beetle, [1] often shortened to simply SPB, is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of the southern United States, Mexico and Central America. [2] It has recently expanded its range to the northeastern United States , where it is considered an invasive species and has destroyed massive amounts ...
Extreme drought and bark beetles now threaten California's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, home to Methuselah, a 4,853-year-old bristlecone pine.
Dendroctonus brevicomis, the western pine beetle, is a species of crenulate bark beetle in the family Curculionidae. It is found in North America [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and parts of Mexico. [ 4 ] It is known as a destructive pest of ponderosa and Coulter pine trees. [ 5 ]
Dead pine trees, weakened by last summer's drought and hungry beetles, are a major public safety concern for Louisiana residents, with fears that fragile tree limbs may come crashing down on homes ...