PitchTube
Explore bark and ambrosia beetles, and connect with the UF Forest Entomology Lab.
Welcome
Who looks like a cute and fuzzy teddy bear but is less then 1mm long? Who was the first farmer on Earth, over sixty million years ago, growing nutritious fungi? And who will determine whether climate change is buffered by trees, or whether forests die and turn into a carbon source? Welcome to the diverse and bizarre world of bark and ambrosia beetles!
PitchTube is the website of the University of Florida Forest Entomology (UFFE) lab, a destination for those who love, fear, or are curious about this amazing biological system. And for those who don’t know yet, the real pitch tube is a defensive blob of resin exuded by a pine attacked by a bark beetle. The UFFE lab welcomes diversity of views, origins, and identities.
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