spruce bark beetle

Noun
  1. Small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree (synset 102183079)
    "the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests"
    is a type of: bark beetle - small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils
    belongs to: dendroctonus, genus dendroctonus - genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers
    same as: dendroctonus rufipennis

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