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spruce bark beetle

DEFINITIONS OF: spruce bark beetle

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n 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”
Synonyms:
Dendroctonus rufipennis
Type of:
bark beetle
small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils
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