What is the meaning of dendroctonus rufipennis?

noun

  • Small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree.
    • usage: "the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests"
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