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| has gloss | (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" spruce bark beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis |
| has gloss | eng: The Spruce Beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) is a species of bark beetle native to British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, and the Yukon. They are known to destroy forests of spruce trees . Adults average 4 to 7 mm in length . References |
| lexicalization | eng: Dendroctonus rufipennis |
| lexicalization | eng: spruce bark beetle |
| subclass of | (noun) small beetle that bores tunnels in the bark and wood of trees; related to weevils bark beetle |
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| member of | (noun) genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus |
| similar | e/Dendroctonus rufipennis |
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