bark beetle

1. Small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees;
   Related to weevils (synset 102182885)
   is a type of: beetle - insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
   subtypes:

   • dutch-elm beetle, scolytus multistriatus - a vector of the fungus causing Dutch elm disease
   • dendroctonus rufipennis, spruce bark beetle - small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree
   belongs to: family ipidae, family scolytidae, ipidae, scolytidae - large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees

Other Searches

• Rhyme: Dillfrog, RhymeZone
• Definition: Wiktionary, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster, WordNet, Power Thesaurus
• Imagery: Google, Flickr, Bing