the southern pine bark beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis)—depends on the light touch of a mutualistic microbe, Entomocorticium sp. A, to feed its larvae. And as Jon Clardy of Harvard Medical School and ...

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 ...

There, wedged into narrow channels carved into the wood, were tiny black larvae ... pine beetle epidemic has peaked in Colorado, but attacks by spruce beetles—which also burrow through bark ...