Word: scolytus
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "The Introduction of a European Bark-beetle, Scolytus Multistriatus, into Massachusetts." Mr. J. W. Chapman. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "The Introduction of a European Bark-beetle, Scolytus Multistriatus, into Massachusetts." Mr. J. W. Chapman. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...
While cutting the leopard moth larvae from the limbs of the elms last fall, a small beetle was found, which has since been identified as the European elm bark-borer--scolytus multistriatus-marsh. In Germany it is known as the "splint kafer" and it is one of their most injurious pests. It enters the bark and the newly hatched larvae work in the splint of the live wood causing the bark to loosen and eventually fall off. Scores of trees in the Yard and about Cambridge have been examined and without exception all of them are infected...