The Spruce Bark Beetle loves to eat Spruce trees in the boreal forests over vast areas of the northern hemisphere. Insect infestations are a normal phenomenon but on occasions when the circumstances are just right a population explosion of a particular species can take place resulting in great devastation. The Spruce Bark Beetle thrives in warmer temperatures that are now taking place in northern woodlands. Global warming has raised the temperature just enough to cause an explosion of this hungry creature. Millions of acres of Spruce trees are blackened and decimated by this tiny beetle that is only the size of a grain of rice.
The three beetles on this stick of wood are large to show the population explosion of this species. The stick, trunk of the tree, is bare except for the top which only has a few branches left, to show the almost complete destruction by these hungry beetles.
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