spruce bark beetle

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noun

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
• Syn:
Dendroctonus rufipennis
• Hypernyms:
bark beetle
• Member Holonyms:
Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus