FIELD RESEARCH IN PINE FORESTS, SWEDENJohn Byers
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) logging near Sjöbö, Southern Sweden (Skåne) during flight of Tomicus and Pityogenes bark beetles.
General:
1. Scots pine forest
2. Scots pine
3. late afternoon
4. pine tree
5. birch, pine and spruce
6. Big pine
7. fallen Scots pine
8. deer browsing on pine
9. broken roots
10. pine log pile
11. mobile traps
Beetle traps:
1. rotating trap pair
2. rotor close up
3. motor and battery pack
4. window traps on trees
5. close up of window traps
6. window trap on tree
7. close up of trap
8. row of pipe traps
9. another trap row
10. sticky trap
11. sticky trap pole
Bark beetles:
1. Bark beetle vision
Pine shoot beetle:
1. Tomicus piniperda
2. attracted to resin
3. next to resin
4. walking on bark
5. walking on log end
6. male guarding female
7. beetle with phoretic mites
8. pupae in log
9. old galleries
"myrbagge"
European red bellied clerid
Thanasimus formicarius:
1. Walking on bark
2. Feeding on Tomicus
3. hunting on bark
4. more hunting
5. mating pair perching
6. mating pair basking
"Timmerman" - Acanthocinus aedulis:
1. Male, close up
2. Find the long-horned beetle
3. Where is it?
4. Hidden except antennae
5. male "timmerman"
6. stridulatory organ
Various insects (non-research):
1. Pissodes pini weevil
2. Geotrupes
3. Pieris brassicae
4. same flying
5. same landed
Images © 1996 by John A. Byers.
Research supported by grants from Sweden's SJFR (Skogs- och Jordbrukets Forskningsråd = Forest and Agricultural Research Council).