How to Use bark beetle in a Sentence

bark beetle

noun

• Some 80% to 90% of the trees in the area where the fire is raging have died because of the ravages of the bark beetle.
  — Cynthia Dizikes, SFChronicle.com, 7 Sep. 2020
• Dutch elm disease is a fungoid killer that is spread by the way of bark beetles.
  — Paulina Smolinski, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2019
• Leaving logs like that can cause bark beetles to spread.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2018
• Broad stands of dead trees killed by bark beetle are often clear-cut.
  — Jim Carlton, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2018
• The court was not convinced that the bark beetles justified the logging.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 18 Apr. 2018
• In front of my house, a giant beautiful spruce tree died from the spruce bark beetle.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Sep. 2017
• No doubt spruce bark beetle and our urban forests’ health will be a key topic.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The timber in the area where the fire is burning has 80-90% tree mortality due to bark beetle.
  — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 8 Sep. 2020
• Spruce bark beetles killed broad swaths of forests on the Kenai Peninsula 20 years ago.
  — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2018
• Many of the trees have succumbed to invasive bark beetles due to their weakened state.
  — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2017
• The name bark beetles says it all: These dark brown bugs burrow themselves into tree trunks.
  — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 29 Nov. 2016
• But all that changed with startling speed because of the Dutch elm fungus, spread by bark beetles, beginning in Ohio in the 1930s.
  — David Sharp, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2020
• The stress also made the trees more susceptible to pathogens and insects, like bark beetles.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 July 2019
• Drought has enabled western pine bark beetles to kill large swaths of forest.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• They are exploited by pests such as bark beetles, which have always been present in the ecosystem.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• In addition, Clements said the forests have been stressed from drought and bark beetle infestations for many years.
  — David Benda, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
• Poland had argued that felling the trees was necessary to fight the spread of bark beetle infestation.
  — Fox News, 17 Apr. 2018
• Still Morawiecki echoed his party’s line that the logging is meant to fight a bark beetle outbreak.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
• Still, without the warmer and drier weather from climate change, the bark beetles wouldn’t be flourishing in all that spruce.
  — Matthias Schrader, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2023
• The bark of gray, dead, towering trees is punctured by tiny pinpricks: traces of the European spruce bark beetle.
  — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• In California, bark beetles combined with years of drought have helped kill off 129 million trees across the state.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• The fire is being fueled by dead trees that were devastated by the bark beetle in recent years.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2020
• The ruling goes against the government's insistence, that the extensive logging was a necessary step in the fight against the spread of the bark beetle.
  — Fox News, 11 May 2018
• Also, the state is losing millions of trees to dryness and bark beetle invasions.
  — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 7 Jan. 2016
• Forests will dry out, and become vulnerable to bark beetles, which burrow into trees to lay their eggs.
  — Allegra Kirkland, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
• As the drought continued, native bark beetles swooped in and began killing large tracts of California’s conifer forests, though not the sequoias.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
• Some 129 million trees died during the drought, which deprived the trees of water, dried out their sap and promoted infestations of bark beetles, which thrived in the heat.
  — Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2018
• There flames have overtaken conifers killed by drought and bark beetle infestations causing crown fires, where the blaze burns through the top layer of foliage on a tree.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022
• The trees have suffered at least a 70% increase in mortality over the last decade due to severe drought and bark beetle infestations.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
• North American foresters have tracked the invasive bark beetle for centuries, but in the last 15 years its numbers have exploded.
  — Daniel McGlynn, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2012

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024