| bark beetle | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. bark beetle | small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils. |
| ~ beetle | insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings. |
| ~ family ipidae, family scolytidae, ipidae, scolytidae | large family of bark-boring or wood-boring short-beaked beetles; very destructive to forest and fruit trees. |
| ~ dutch-elm beetle, scolytus multistriatus | a vector of the fungus causing Dutch elm disease. |
| ~ dendroctonus rufipennis, spruce bark beetle | 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" |
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