bark-beetle

McGuire had been thinking a lot about the bark-beetle epidemic, and he came up with a novel idea: perhaps a military crowd-control device he had read about, which emits powerful pulses of sound, could be used to kill the insects.

Beetle Mania 2010

McGuire had been thinking a lot about the bark-beetle epidemic, and he came up with a novel idea: perhaps a military crowd-control device he had read about, which emits powerful pulses of sound, could be used to kill the insects.

Beetle Mania 2010

She would like to see it built using lumber from pine trees that have been killed by a bark-beetle infestation.

Critter Crossings 2010

She has found that air pollution has significantly weakened conifers such as ponderosa pines and Jeffrey pines, making them more susceptible to drought and bark-beetle attacks, and less resistant to fire (see the abstract "Air Pollution Increases Forest Susceptibility to Wildfires: A Case Study in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California" by Grulke, Minnich et al).

Chris McGowan: A Clockwork Apocalypse: The Southern California Wildfire 2009

No. 605 -- June, 1941 The internal application of chemicals to kill elm trees and prevent bark-beetle attack.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946

"He can stretch his tongue out ten times my length," cried the bark-beetle, flourishing his arm.

The Adventures of Maya the Bee Waldemar Bonsels 1919

An 'when that dead tree is full of bark-beetle, an' there ain't none in the forest, that sure looks suspicious.

The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

Then he continued: "But I didn't know there was any bark-beetle here."

The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

But I ain't believin 'any such perambulatin' spirit for a bark-beetle.

The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

The survey of the various types of beetle-larvae enumerated above (pp. 50-56) concluded with a short description of the _legless grub_, which is the young form of a weevil or a bark-beetle.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902