Ambrosia Beetles
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Open Access
- 1 July 2023
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature
- p. 339-360
Abstract
The term “ambrosia beetles” refers to an ecological strategy shared by thousands of species of wood-boring weevils from multiple lineages, rather than a single taxonomic group. Most ambrosia beetle groups evolved from within the bark battles (Curculionidae; Scolytinae), which are a diverse group of weevils which bore into trees and whose progeny develop by feeding on the host tree tissue.Keywords
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