Dendroctonus

But the lodgepole had no strategies or defenses against the triple catastrophes of prolonged drought, warming climate and an unprecedented invasion of mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, whose apt Latin name means “tree killer.”

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

But the lodgepole had no strategies or defenses against the triple catastrophes of prolonged drought, warming climate and an unprecedented invasion of mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, whose apt Latin name means “tree killer.”

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

But the lodgepole had no strategies or defenses against the triple catastrophes of prolonged drought, warming climate and an unprecedented invasion of mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, whose apt Latin name means “tree killer.”

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

But the lodgepole had no strategies or defenses against the triple catastrophes of prolonged drought, warming climate and an unprecedented invasion of mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, whose apt Latin name means “tree killer.”

Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

However, by the end of the study, 30% of the white spruce forest in the study area had been killed by spruce bark beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis), which was probably related to climate warming (see Chapter 14).

Arctic boreal forest environments 2009

The Pine Beetle [Dendroctonus ponderosae], which is usually controlled by spells of cold winter weather, are devastating forests of British Columbia and about twenty-five percent of the trees that line the lake are now red, killed by the insect infestation, with predictions of a ninety percent kill ratio.

Running Out Of Fossil Fuels: A Cause For Glee? 2009

During the 1990s, the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska experienced the largest outbreak of spruce bark beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) in the world [5].

Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic 2009

Serious insect pests are Dendroctonus (in Central American natural populations); Ips beetles; the pine aphid; leaf-cutting ants; termites; the Australian case moth, Hyalarcta; and the Nantucket tip moth, Rhyacionia.

Chapter 5 1983

The phylogeny of host use in Dendroctonus bark beetles (Scolytidae).

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hubert Turner et al. 2010

This tiny but destructive mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, is about the size of a grain of rice and lives most of its life under tree bark, favouring the province's most commercially harvested tree - the lodgepole pine - as well as ponderosa and western white pine.

IPS Inter Press Service 2009