Usage examples (7)

• The fir engraver beetle (Scolytus ventralis), a member of the bark beetle family, causes high mortality in white fir stands.
• The bark boring beetle (Scolytus) has been reported as destructive to hickories in some sections, the trees dying as a result of depredations of the larvae of this beetle.
• I might say on the Scolytus matter, that I have conferred with Professor Comstock, who has been kind enough to say he would place the matter in the hands of one of his...
• The master engravers are probably Birch bark beetles, Scolytus ratzeburgi Janson.