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ambrosia beetle
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Japanese Meaning
アンブロジア菌と栄養共生関係にあるコガネムシ科の種の総称。具体的には、Platypodinae亜科に属するほぼ全ての種と、Scolytinae亜科に属する一部の樹皮虫種を指す。
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Any of those species of true weevils (family Curculionidae) that live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi, including almost all of the species of the subfamily Platypodinae and some of the species of bark beetles in Scolytinae.
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ambrosia beetle
An ambrosia beetle tunnels into a weakened tree, inoculates the wood with symbiotic fungi, and cultivates a fungal garden to nourish its larvae.
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An ambrosia beetle tunnels into a weakened tree, inoculates the wood with symbiotic fungi, and cultivates a fungal garden to nourish its larvae.
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