Of beetles and bacteria :The Scientist [2009-04-01]


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	By Margaret Guthrie

Of beetles and bacteria All across the United States and Canada, tiny pine bark beetles are killing trees. From the northern pine bark beetle in Canada, the mountain pine bark beetle in Colorado, Montana, and Idaho to the southern pine bark beetle in the southeastern United States, this bug—only millimeters in length—is costing