Smaller European Elm Bark Beetle Scolytus multistriatus

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Overland spread of Dutch elm disease (DED) is closely linked to the life cycles of the native elm bark beetle and the smaller European elm bark beetle. Both beetles are attracted to stressed, dying, or dead elm wood to complete the breeding stage of their life cycle

Keywords: beetle, Coleoptera, elm, Ulmus species, Dutch elm disease, fungus, sticky spores, Ophiostoma ulmi, galleries

U.S. Forest Service - Southern Research Station - Asheville, North Carolina