spruce bark beetle

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• spruce bark beetle — noun small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree the spruce bark beetle is the major tree killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests • Syn: ↑Dendroctonus rufipennis •… …   Useful english dictionary

• Bark beetle — The unrelated sawyer beetles (Monochamus) and some other wood boring beetle taxa (especially Cucujoidea) are sometimes called bark beetles too. Bark beetles Mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae …   Wikipedia

• bark beetle — noun small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils • Hypernyms: ↑beetle • Hyponyms: ↑Dutch elm beetle, ↑Scolytus multistriatus, ↑spruce bark beetle, ↑Dendroctonus rufipennis • …   Useful english dictionary

• spruce beetle — noun : a beetle that attacks the spruce; especially : any of several bark beetles of the genus Dendroctonus whose larvae feed beneath the bark and often cause severe damage * * * a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in… …   Useful english dictionary

• engelmann spruce beetle — noun Usage: usually capitalized E : a very destructive reddish brown or blackish bark beetle (Dendroctonus obesus) that feeds in the cambium of Engelmann spruce * * * Engelmann spruce beetle, a very destructive beetle that attacks the bark of… …   Useful english dictionary

• sitka spruce beetle — noun Usage: usually capitalized 1st S : a bark beetle (Dendroctonus obesus) the larva of which is a serious pest on Sitka spruce in northwestern No. America …   Useful english dictionary

• Dendroctonus rufipennis — noun small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree the spruce bark beetle is the major tree killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests • Syn: ↑spruce bark beetle • Hypernyms …   Useful english dictionary

• Dendroctonus — ponderosae Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia …   Wikipedia

• Taiga — (pronEng|ˈtaɪgə, from Turkic [ taiga. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) . Random House, Inc. 12 Mar. 2008. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/taiga web link ] ] or Mongolian) is a biome characterized by coniferous forests. Covering most of… …   Wikipedia

• Cook Inlet taiga — The Cook Inlet taiga ecoregion, in the Taiga and Boreal forests Biome, is located in Alaska. Contents 1 Setting 2 Flora 3 Fauna 4 Threats and preservation …   Wikipedia

• Dendroctonus — noun genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers • Syn: ↑genus Dendroctonus • Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Scolytidae, ↑family Scolytidae, ↑Ipidae, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary