Dendroctonus ponderosae (Mountain Pine Beetle) 2
The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia. It has a hard black exoskeleton, and measures approximately 5 mm, about the size of a grain of rice. In western North America, the current outbreak of the mountain pine beetle and its microbial associates has destroyed wide areas of lodgepole pine forest.
Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera Curculionidae Scolytinae bark beetleAuthor(s) | Jane Thomas |
Author Company | Integration and Application Network |
Date Created | 2009-01-01 |
Album | Fauna > Insects/Arachnids |
Type | Symbol |
Dimensions | 502 x 290 |
Filesize | 23.5 kB (svg) 25.1 kB (png) |
Number of Downloads | 629 |
Filetype(s) | SVG PNG |
License | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
Required Attribution | Jane Thomas, Integration and Application Network (ian.umces.edu/media-library) |