spruce bark beetle

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Noun spruce bark beetle has 1 sense

spruce bark beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis - small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambrium which eventually kills the tree; "the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests"
--₁ is a kind of bark beetle
--₁ is a member of Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus

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