Young beetle surrounded by fungal spores (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Young beetle surrounded by fungal spores

Caption

European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus: The newly hatched young adult is still in the so-called pupal chamber at the end of the tunnel it created as a larva. It is surrounded by spores of a symbiotic fungus.

Credit

Dineshkumar Kandasamy and Veit Grabe, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

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