Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
The larvae are predators of bark beetles in the genera Dendroctonus and Ips, and have been noted as important predators of the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis. [2] [5] In Bickel (1985)'s revision of the genus Medetera in the Nearctic realm, M. bistriata is included as a member of the signaticornis-pinicola species group. [5] [2]
Dendroctonus is a genus of bark beetles.It includes several species notorious for destroying trees in the forests of North America. The genus has a symbiotic relationship with many different yeasts, particularly those in the genera Candida and Pichia that aid in digestion and pheromone production.
Still, southern pine beetle infestations in 2023 represented "the most wide-spread activity in the Southern region in the past two decades," according to the information center. Southern pine ...
On a recent excursion, Campbell Vaughn couldn't help but notice the devastation of pine trees in local forested areas due to the southern pine beetle.
Tiny bark beetles, namely the Ips engraver and southern pine varieties, have been killing millions of trees across Louisiana and Mississippi after a severe drought last year left forests and woods ...
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.
Asian long-horned beetle infests primarily maple, poplar, willow and elm; Sirex noctilio infests multiple pine species; Southern pine beetle also infests several pine species; it is native to the Southeast, but is considered invasive in the Northeast; Winter moth is a defoliating insect that infests many species including oaks, maples, and cherries