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Mountain pine beetle

Insect
The mountain pine beetle is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia. It has a hard black exoskeleton, and measures approximately 5 millimetres, about the size of a grain of... Wikipedia
Scientific name: Dendroctonus ponderosae
Class: Insecta
Family: Curculionidae
Order: Coleoptera
Phylum: Arthropoda