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More than 90 species of insects were identified in bolts taken from east Texas loblolly pines infested by the southern pine beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann and by Ips engraver beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Seasonal abundance of the associates generally paralleled that of the southern pine beetle.
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Moser et al. (1971) studied this question.
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