THE GENUS DENDROCTONUS. 
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attack on living trees and on the stumps of those recently felled is 
indicated by large masses of pitch and pitch tubes, mixed with 
reddish borings. 
SEASONAL HISTORY. 
OVERWINTERING STAGES. 
The winter is passed in and beneath the bark of trees and stumps 
attacked the preceding spring and summer, as parent adults, larva?, 
and developed broods, the larvae, as a rule, occupying the bark on the 
roots beneath the surface of the ground. 
Fig. 98.— The red turpentine beetle. Egg galleries and larval chamber: A, Incomplete egg galleries 
with boring dust removed; B, normal gallery; C, advanced stage of work; a, entrance burrow; 
b, basal section; c, ventilating burrow; d, egg nest with eggs; e, boring dust; /, subsequent or inner 
galleries; g, larvae at work; h, pupal cell in boring dust mixed with resin. (Author's illustration. ) 
ACTIVITY OF OVERWINTERED BROODS. 
The overwintered parent adults begin to extend their galleries 
during the first warm weather in March, April, or June, depending 
on locality, and probably continue to work in these, or excavate new 
galleries, until July and August, or later. It is probable that after 
finishing one gallery they emerge and excavate new ones, and that this 
process may be repeated during the summer and fall. It is also not 
improbable that some of them may pass the second winter. The 
overwintered broods of young adults begin to emerge from the bark 
in April and continue to do so during May and June, and less com- 
monly until August, or later; they excavate galleries principally in 
