| 1. | Ambrosia beetles are an ecological guild, but not a phylogenetic clade.
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| 2. | All ambrosia fungi are probably inoculum from fungal gardens of other ambrosia beetle species.
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| 3. | The highest diversity of ambrosia beetles is in the tropics.
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| 4. | Compared to the diversity in the tropics, ambrosia beetle fauna in the temperate zone is rather limited.
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| 5. | The only two other groups of insects that have evolved fungus-based agriculture are ambrosia beetles and termites.
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| 6. | Other foreign pests include the Asian ambrosia beetle ( " Xyleborus glabratus " ) borbonia " ).
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| 7. | Little is known about ecology of ambrosia fungi, as well as about their specificity to ambrosia beetle species.
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| 8. | It causes Japanese oak wilt disease, and is spread by the ambrosia beetle ( " Platypus quercivorus " ).
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| 9. | Agriculture usually refers to human activities, although it is also observed in certain species of ant, termite and ambrosia beetle.
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| 10. | Unfortunately, due to an invasion of redbay ambrosia beetle in the Southern United States the tree is slowly dying out.
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