spruce bark beetle

Noun spruce bark beetle has 1 sense

• spruce bark beetle(n = noun.animal) dendroctonus rufipennis - small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree; "the spruce bark beetle is the major tree-killing insect pest of Alaska spruce forests"
is a member of dendroctonus, genus dendroctonus
is a kind of bark beetle