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Taphrorychus bicolor

Beech bark beetle

Description

Feeding gallery of this common species is star-shaped. The galleries are visible also in the bark. During severe attack, the galleries join together and inflict continuous damage on the inner side of bark. It colonizes mainly trunks. The bark crumbles, peels and falls into decay. It occurs on just died wood but it can also attack living, badly damaged or dying trees weakened by e.g. Armillaria. In case of attack on living trees, on trunk bark is visible oozing above the feeding.

Symptom

Feeding gallery of this common species is star-shaped. The galleries are visible also in the bark. During severe attack, the galleries join together and inflict continuous damage on the inner side of bark.

Tree Species: Beech

Part of a plant- attacked: Tree trunk

Pest significance: Very harmful

Pest Category: Insects

Invasive Species: No

Present in EU: Yes

Seasonal frequency of occurrence

Seasonal frequency of occurrence