Dryocoetes

Dryocoetes confusus

Hosts

Subalpine fir, Sitka spruce, white spruce, Lutz spruce, western hemlock, and lodgepole pine.

Distribution

Throughout Alaska wherever susceptible host material is found.

Identification

Adults are 2.5 to 5.0 mm long, blackish with a distinguishable tuft of “hair” on the head.

Damage

These beetles cause little or no economic impact. Larval galleries are found under the bark of dead and weakened host material.

Dryocoetes