| 单词 | ambrosia beetle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasambrosia beetle ambrosia beetle n. any of various small beetles that excavate tunnels in wood and live there in a symbiotic relationship with ambrosia fungi, which they transport, cultivate, and feed upon.Ambrosia beetles are now assigned to subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae of the weevil family Curculionidae.Also called pinhole borer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Scolytidae > member of (bark-beetle) timber-capricorn1803 timber-beetle1841 bark-borer1859 bark-beetle1862 pin borer1890 scolytid1890 timberman1894 engraver beetle1896 ambrosia beetle1897 pinhole borer1916 shot-hole borer1916 1897 H. G. Hubbard in Some Misc. Results Work Div. Entomol. (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Entomol.: New Ser. Bull. No. 7) 9 The term ambrosia beetles is here used as a convenient one to distinguish..the timber-boring Scolytidæ, which push their galleries deeply into the wood, and which feed upon a substance called ‘ambrosia’. 1963 L. R. Batra in Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 66 226 Such fungal repositories were of wide occurrence among ambrosia beetles. These structures are here referred to as mycangia. 2012 Free Press (Kinston, N. Carolina) 28 Mar. 33/1 One of these pests, the granulated ambrosia beetle.., was introduced into South Carolina from Asia in the early 1970s. < as lemmas |
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