![Life cyle of bark beetle](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/lifecyclsm.gif) |
Life cycle of mountain pine beetle.
Ministry of Forests
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![Bark beetle image from an electron microscope.](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/beetlesm.jpg) |
Adult bark beetle image from an electron
microscope
Photo by Leslie Manning, Canadian Forest Service
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/MPBbroodsm.jpg) |
Larval stage
Photo by Dion Manastyrski,
Ministry of Forests, southern Interior Forest Region
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Larva and adult stage
Photo by Dion Manastyrski
Ministry of Forests, southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/MPBattacksm.jpg) |
Photo by Dion Manastyrski
Ministry of Forests, southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/cfr1_21sm.jpg) |
Close up of adult
beetle.
Photo by
Canadian Forest Service
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/MPBathole2sm.jpg) |
Close up of adult mountain pine
beetle.
Photo by Dion Manastyrski
Ministry of Forests, southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/MPB_0703_002sm.jpg) |
Close up of adult mountain pine
beetle.
Photo by Dion Manastyrski
Ministry of Forests, southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/MPB_0703_003sm.jpg) |
Close up of adult mountain pine
beetle preparing to fly.
Photo by Dion Manastyrski
Ministry of Forests, southern Interior Forest Region
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Trunk of lodgepole pine showing "pitch tubes" from a mountain pine beetle attack.
Photo by Leo Rankin,
Ministry of Forests, southern Interior Forest
Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/mpbbole2sm.jpg) |
Base of mass attacked lodgepole pine showing pitch tubes and frass.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan,
Ministry of Forests, southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/pgfr_54sm.jpg) |
Base of lodgepole
pine showing boring dust and frass.
Photo by Robert Hodgkinson,
Ministry of Forests, Northern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/pgfr_53sm.jpg) |
Mountain Pine Beetle
galleries with larva visible.
Photo by Robert Hodgkinson,
Ministry of Forests, Northern Interior Forest Region
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![Mountain Pine Beetles in their galleries under the bark.](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/beetlwdsm.jpg) |
Mountain pine beetle adults under the
bark.
Photo by
Canadian Forest Service
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/Jul1-8_roll1_Newfadesm.jpg) |
Aerial view of extensive attack
by mountain pine beetle.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan,
Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/Jul1-8_roll1_Williams_Lake_MPB1sm.jpg) |
Aerial view of extensive attack
by mountain pine beetle.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan,
Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/Jul22_Kamloops_flightsm.jpg) |
Aerial view of extensive attack
by mountain pine beetle.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan,
Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/Jul22_North_from_Red_Plateausm.jpg) |
Aerial view of extensive attack
by mountain pine beetle.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan, Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/Jul8_roll3_MPB1sm.jpg) |
Ground view of crown of
lodgepole pine killed by mountain pine beetle.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan, Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/Jul8_roll3_tree2sm.jpg) |
Ground view of crown of
lodgepole pine killed by mountain pine beetle
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan, Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/Jul8_roll5_Quesnel_PrinceGeorge_boundary4sm.jpg) |
Aerial view of extensive attack
by mountain pine beetle.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan,
Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/Jul8_roll6_Quesnel_MPB3sm.jpg) |
Aerial view of extensive attack
by mountain pine beetle.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan, Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/Manning2002_rdsm.jpg) |
Aerial view of extensive attack
by mountain pine beetle.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan,
Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/MPB_July8_03sm.jpg) |
Aerial view of extensive attack
by mountain pine beetle.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan,
Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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Aerial view of attack by
mountain pine beetle on a hillside.
Photo by Lorraine Maclauchlan,
Ministry of Forests,
Southern Interior Forest Region
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/cfr1_97sm.jpg) |
Aerial view of small
infestation
Photo by
Canadian Forest Service
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![](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/pgfr_52sm.jpg) |
Ground shot of clump
of Mountain Pine Beetle killed trees in Nelson region. Photo by
Robert Hodgkinson,
Ministry of Forests, Northern Interior Forest Region
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![Salvage logging of beetle-killed trees](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/logsitesm.jpg) |
Harvesting of mountain pine beetle-killed
lodgepole pine.
Photo by
Canadian Forest Service
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![Aerial view of trees under attack](/web/20061229001935im_/http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/images/redforstsm.jpg) |
Aerial view of red foliage of lodgepole
pine killed by mountain pine beetle.
Photo by
Canadian Forest Service
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