Pine-engraver
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Ips plastographus
California pine engraver, Forgery Bark Weevil
Ips plastographus, commonly known as the California pine engraver, is a bark beetle in the weevil family Curculionidae. It is native to western North America and primarily associated with pine hosts, particularly lodgepole pine. New adult beetles have been documented overwintering in short tunnels within the sapwood of windfelled trees. The species is provisionally accepted in taxonomic databases and has limited published natural history documentation.