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ambrosia beetles NAPIS: INBNBBA
Platypus spp. Herbst, 1793
Taxonomic Rank: Hexapoda (including Insecta): Coleoptera: Curculionidae

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Damage; Presence of dark stain on or round tunnel walls and absence of powder within tunnel distinguishes damage
USDA Forest Service Archive, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org
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Galleries; Entrance points of adult ambrosia beetle. Holes are stained by blue stain fungi.
Ladd Livingston, Idaho Department of Lands, Bugwood.org
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Galleries;
James Solomon, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org
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Damage; Frass at base of tree. Greenville, SC.
Randy Cyr, Greentree, Bugwood.org
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Damage; boring dust at the base of a recently killed pine
Andrew J. Boone, South Carolina Forestry Commission, Bugwood.org
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