---

• n  small beetle that likes to bore through the bark of spruce trees and eat the cambium which eventually kills the tree

• Dendroctonus rufipennis

News & Articles

---

• When Life Gives You Beetle-Killed Forests, Make Biofuel
  There hasn’t been much upside to the rash of infestations of pine and spruce bark beetles in the forests of the Rocky Mountains. Now, a group of researchers from Colorado says it can process beetle-killed trees into biofuel that can be mixed with gasoline for use in combustion engines like those in most cars and trucks—and the U.S. Department of Agriculture just awarded them a $10 million grant ...
  Nov. 11, 2013 - Takepart.com via Yahoo! News