A small dark beetle that burrows into wood. The adults have cylindrical bodies with short, clubbed antennae. The fleshy, legless larvae feed on fungi that line the walls of tunnels made in the wood. (Order: Coleoptera. Family: Scolytidae.)
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Ambrosia beetles are woodboring beetles, primarily in the subfamily Scolytinae of the weevil family, Curculionidae, but sometimes the subfamily Platypodinae is included (the latter are more often differentiated by using the name "pin-hole borers").
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