Conifer-killing beetles use smell of beneficial fungus to select host trees (IMAGE)

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Conifer-killing beetles use smell of beneficial fungus to select host trees

Caption

Pupae of the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) in the bark of a Norway spruce tree (Picea abies) recently killed by bark beetle attack.

Credit

Dineshkumar Kandasamy (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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