Infested trees showed sharp drops in diameter as they began to dry out. The European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) is a bark beetle that primarily causes damage to spruce trees. While the ...

The majority of bark beetles are female; males are smaller and flightless. Adult beetles can be reddish brown or black in color, while larvae are white and legless. Female bark borers seek out ...

Caption A team of researchers has discovered a previously unrecorded jumping behavior in the larvae of a species of lined flat bark beetle (Laemophloeus biguttatus). This image shows the larval ...