Top Results for Scolytinae

The black turpentine beetle is a bark beetle native to the southeastern United States and parts of Mexico and Central America. Adults attack the lower trunks and large roots of stressed or weakened pine trees, where their feeding and breeding can damage the host. The species produces conspicuous res...

The Douglas-fir beetle, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae, is a bark beetle native to western North America and associated primarily with Douglas-fir trees. Adult beetles tunnel through the bark and construct galleries in the inner bark, where eggs are laid and larvae develop. Populations commonly increase...

Pine engraver is the common name for Ips pini, a small bark beetle in the subfamily Scolytinae of the weevil family Curculionidae. It occurs across North America and breeds in the inner bark of pine and other stressed, recently cut, or dying conifers. Adults and larvae construct galleries beneath th...

The coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei, is a minute beetle in the weevil family Curculionidae and the subfamily Scolytinae. Native to central Africa, it has spread to coffee-growing regions worldwide. Adult females bore into coffee berries and lay eggs; the larvae feed on the coffee seed, reduc...