spruce bark beetle

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spruce bark beetle Definition

• (n) small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambrium which eventually kills the tree; "the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests"

spruce bark beetle Synonyms

• Dendroctonus rufipennis
• spruce bark beetle