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

Type of: bark beetle

Part of: Dendroctonus, genus Dendroctonus

Encyclopedia: Dendroctonus rufipennis

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