redbay ambrosia beetle (Xyleborus glabratus ) on redbay (Persea borbonia )

redbay ambrosia beetle
Xyleborus glabratus Eichhoff, 1877

Host: redbay (Persea borbonia (L.) Spreng.)
Descriptor: Feature(s)
Description: Sawdust tubes produced by ambrosia beetles on a dead redbay. Multiple species of ambrosia beetles attack redbays killed by Xyleborus glabratus and its associated fungus.
Image type: Field
Image location: Florida, United States

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Name: Albert (Bud) Mayfield
Organization: USDA Forest Service
Country: United States

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Subject: redbay ambrosia beetle
Genus: Xyleborus
Family: Curculionidae
Order: Coleoptera
Class: Hexapoda (including Insecta)
Photographer: Albert (Bud) Mayfield
Organization: USDA Forest Service
Area: Forestry - Hardwood

Image Number: 2199082

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Image uploaded on Monday, August 21, 2006
Image Information last updated on Thursday, August 04, 2011