bark beetle in English

noun
1
a small wood-boring beetle that tunnels under the bark of trees, which die if heavily infested.
The species have decimated pine tree populations in India and are similar to the bark beetle that has ravaged forests in the western United States.

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1. A bark beetle.

2. Black stem Borers, a tiny bark beetle, has recently been attacking stressed apple trees in New England.

3. Thousand Cankers disease (TCD) is caused by a fungal pathogen and bark beetle combination that is fatal to black walnut (Junglans nigra)

4. A total of 9500 (5.0% of all trees) Pinus and Abies trees died 2 years after treatment of which 28.8% (2733 trees) was attributed to bark beetle colonization.

5. Bamboozling the bark beetles by Dresden University of Technology Credit: CC0 Public Domain The forest is struggling to cope with the largest bark beetle plague in 70 years.