How to Use bark beetle in a Sentence

bark beetle

noun
  • Broad stands of dead trees killed by bark beetle are often clear-cut.
    — Jim Carlton, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2018
  • Dutch elm disease is a fungoid killer that is spread by the way of bark beetles.
    — Paulina Smolinski, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2019
  • No doubt spruce bark beetle and our urban forests’ health will be a key topic.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Of late they have been attacked by a bark beetle, and many are dead or dying.
    — Del Mar Historical Society, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Drought has enabled western pine bark beetles to kill large swaths of forest.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2023
  • In front of my house, a giant beautiful spruce tree died from the spruce bark beetle.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Statewide, entire forests are harmed by bark beetles and other invaders.
    — Pam Marrone, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Many of the trees have succumbed to invasive bark beetles due to their weakened state.
    — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2017
  • They are exploited by pests such as bark beetles, which have always been present in the ecosystem.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The court was not convinced that the bark beetles justified the logging.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Different bark beetles tunnel beneath the bark and lay eggs.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The stress also made the trees more susceptible to pathogens and insects, like bark beetles.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 10 July 2019
  • The same early detection applies to pests such as aphids, bark beetles, and scale insects.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Poland had argued that felling the trees was necessary to fight the spread of bark beetle infestation.
    — Fox News, 17 Apr. 2018
  • 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 planet heats up, scientists are learning that giant sequoias can, in fact, be killed by bark beetles.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • Also, the state is losing millions of trees to dryness and bark beetle invasions.
    — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 7 Jan. 2016
  • Still Morawiecki echoed his party’s line that the logging is meant to fight a bark beetle outbreak.
    — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Queensland state had been banned after customs officials found bark beetle in a shipment.
    — Jason Scott, Bloomberg.com, 1 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The population is now being attacked by bark beetles, and that’s pretty weird.
    — Paige Vega, Vox, 7 June 2024
  • Spruce bark beetles killed broad swaths of forests on the Kenai Peninsula 20 years ago.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The dramatic die-offs were largely attributed to drought, disease and insects such as bark beetles, which prey on weakened trees.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • This particular insect is unusual even among bark beetles.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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