Pissodes strobi

Taxobox
name=White pine weevil


image_caption=
regnum= Animalia
subregnum= Eumetazoa
superphylum= Protostomia
phylum= Arthropoda
sSubphylum= Hexapoda
classis= Insecta
subclassis= Pterygota
divisio= Neoptera
subdivisio= Endopterygota
ordo= Coleoptera
subordo= Polyphaga
infraordo= Cucujiformia
superfamilia= Curculionoidea
familia= Curculionidae
subfamilia= Molytinae
tribus= Pissodini
genus= "Pissodes"
genus_authority=Germar, 1817
species="P. strobi"
species_authority= W. D. Peck, 1817

White pine weevil or Engelmann spruce weevil ("Pissodes strobi") is the primary weevil attacking and destroying white pines, described in 1817 by W. D. Peck, esq., Professor of Natural History and of Botany, Harvard University. The weevil is dark brown with white spots.

The eggs are laid inside a tree, usually white pine, Sitka spruce, white spruce, Engelmann spruce, or other pine or spruce, and the offspring feed on this tree until the host is killed.

References

http://www.eol.org/taxa/17290365?content_id=13&expertise=expert