Ambrosia beetle

Xyleborus est un genre d'insectes coléoptères xylophages de la famille des Curculionidae, de la sous-famille des Scolytinae. Leurs larves creusent des galeries dans le bois.

Ambrosia beetles are beetles of the weevil subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), which live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi. The beetles excavate tunnels in dead or stressed trees into which they introduce fungal gardens, their sole source of nutrition. After landing on a suitable tree, an ambrosia beetle excavates a tunnel in which it releases its fungal symbiont.

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