Tag: Fungus-farming Beetles

The Best Look Yet at the Tiny Fungus Storage Units Inside Ambrosia Beetles

Advances in microscopic imaging techniques are revealing, in unprecedented detail, the structure of mycangia—the internal organs that ambrosia beetles use to store and transport the symbiotic fungi they farm.

Entomology Today October 17, 2018 1 Comment

Fungi May be Used to Control Fungus-farming Beetles

The redbay ambrosia beetle (Xyleborus glabratus) — native to India, Japan, Myanmar, and Taiwan — was first detected in 2002 in southeast Georgia. It was presumably introduced in wood crates […]