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Bark beetles have hard, smooth, stout bodies and range from 1.3 to 2.9 mm in length, depending on gender and species. The majority of bark beetles are female; males are smaller and flightless. Adult ...

Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American Foresters conference in Bellaire discussed how bark and ...

“Introducing Dendroctonus ponderosae, a tiny bug, smaller than a rice grain. For the last 15 years or so, these bugs have been living it up.” So begins a new short-film series that investigates the ...

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 ...

This species has thick, fused wing cases and can only crawl which meant the animals could be attached to a lapel by a chain to become mobile insect brooches. Scientists have recorded bark beetle ...

Long Island’s vulnerable pine barrens, recently ravaged by wildfires last March, are facing another threat in the form of an ...