The ambrosia beetle ( Platypus spp . and Xyleborus spp . ) and powderpost beetles ( Lyctus spp . and Xylobiops basilaris ) often cause economic damage to logs and lumber during storage and air-drying.
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Two types of beetles are being blamed : the Western oak bark beetle, which burrows under the bark until it falls off, and the oak ambrosia beetle, which tunnels into the wood and deposits a fungus that clogs the trees'circulation.
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This fungal disease is introduced into host plants by a non-native insect, the redbay ambrosia beetle ( " Xyleborus glabratus " ) and kills the plant by plugging the water-conducting cells of the afflicted individual, causing it to wilt and eventually die.
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The trees are under attack from two types of beetles : the Western oak bark beetle, which burrows under the bark until it falls off, and the oak ambrosia beetle, which tunnels into the wood and deposits a fungus that clogs the trees'circulation.
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Mole rats and ants live in underground burrows; wasps, bees, and some termites build above-ground hives; thrips and aphids inhabit galls ( neoplastic outgrowths ) induced on plants; ambrosia beetles and some termites nest together in dead wood; and snapping shrimp inhabit crevices in marine sponges.
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This'true sociality'in animals, in which sterile individuals work to further the reproductive success of others, is found in termites, ambrosia beetles, gall-dwelling aphids, thrips, marine sponge-dwelling shrimp ( " Synalpheus regalis " ), naked mole-rats ( " Heterocephalus glaber " ), and the insect order Hymenoptera ( which includes bees, wasps, and ants ).
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Eusociality is a rare but widespread phenomenon originating in members of the seven aforementioned orders ( Isoptera is now an infraorder )-Rodentia ( mole-rat ) s, Decapoda ( snapping shrimp ), Thysanoptera ( thrips ), Hemiptera ( aphids ), Isoptera ( termites ), Coleoptera ( ambrosia beetles ), and Hymenoptera ( ants, bees, and wasps ).
