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The southern pine beetle is a small bark beetle native to the southeastern United States and parts of Mexico and Central America. It attacks pine trees by boring through the bark and producing galleries in the inner bark, disrupting the tree's transport tissues. Large populations can kill many trees...

The western pine beetle (Dendroctonus brevicomis) is a bark beetle native to western North America. It primarily attacks ponderosa pine, especially large or stressed trees, and breeds beneath the bark. Populations can increase during drought and other periods of tree stress, allowing infestations to...

The black turpentine beetle is a bark beetle native to the southeastern United States and parts of Mexico and Central America. Adults attack the lower trunks and large roots of stressed or weakened pine trees, where their feeding and breeding can damage the host. The species produces conspicuous res...

Spruce Bark Beetle is a bark beetle regarded as a serious forest pest across the Northern Hemisphere. During widespread outbreaks, it can contribute to extensive die-offs of mature spruce trees. The insect is relevant to foresters, woodland managers, and researchers studying tree pests, outbreak dyn...

The Douglas-fir beetle, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae, is a bark beetle native to western North America and associated primarily with Douglas-fir trees. Adult beetles tunnel through the bark and construct galleries in the inner bark, where eggs are laid and larvae develop. Populations commonly increase...

Pine engraver is the common name for Ips pini, a small bark beetle in the subfamily Scolytinae of the weevil family Curculionidae. It occurs across North America and breeds in the inner bark of pine and other stressed, recently cut, or dying conifers. Adults and larvae construct galleries beneath th...

The redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus, is a small wood-boring beetle native to Asia. It carries the fungus Raffaelea lauricola, which causes laurel wilt disease in trees of the laurel family, including redbay and avocado. After its detection in the southeastern United States in the early 2...

The Elm Bark Beetle refers to bark beetles in the genus Scolytus, especially species that transmit the fungus responsible for Dutch elm disease. Adult beetles tunnel beneath elm bark, where they can acquire fungal spores and carry them to other trees. Their role as disease vectors made them central...

The coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei, is a minute beetle in the weevil family Curculionidae and the subfamily Scolytinae. Native to central Africa, it has spread to coffee-growing regions worldwide. Adult females bore into coffee berries and lay eggs; the larvae feed on the coffee seed, reduc...