Infected bark beetle (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Infected bark beetle

Caption

Adult spruce bark beetles in their galleries in the bark of a Norway spruce tree. The beetle in the middle is infected with the fungus Beauveria bassiana.

Credit

Benjamin Weiss, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

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