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ambrosia beetle

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ambrosia beetle
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any of various small beetles of the genera Anisandrus, Xyleborus, etc., that bore tunnels into solid wood, feeding on fungi growing in the tunnels: family Scolytidae (bark beetles)
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We carry one figure from soft maple that we call ambrosia beetle--others may call it wormy soft maple--mostly because the worm holes are caused by the ambrosia beetle making small holes where ground water and sap from the tree pick up minerals and cause a discoloration, making long streaks of blue and green and orange.
An enticing species: this maple is not soft on its dramatic figure ... by Kaiser, Jo-Ann / Wood & Wood Products
To see if the consanguineous couples spawned less fit children--a phenomenon called inbreeding depression--Katharina Peer and Michael Taborsky of the University of Bern in Switzerland mated related and unrelated ambrosia beetles (Xylosandrus germanus) in specially designed laboratory chambers, complete with test tube-grown fungus.
All in the family: for some animals, the ideal mate is a brother, ... by Callaway, Ewen / Science News
The granulate ambrosia beetle is capable of breeding in a wide variety of hosts.
A synopsis of insect activity in Indiana during 2005 by Gibb, Timothy J.; Pierce, Christopher M.F.; Waltz, Robert D. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
 
 
 
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