Typophile

ips typographus

Ehague

Anyone know where this species name for the European spruce bark beetle comes from?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ips_typographus

No idea, but inquiring minds want to know!

The only thing I can find about this:

http://www.forest.ru/eng/bulletin/15/5.html

So it looks like that

It is for the paths resembling the typographical matrix that the beetle is called "typographer".

"Typographical matrix"? As in, the distribution mechanism on a Linotype?

I guess its larvae can actually be called "bookworms" :D

At least, then, they're not the rather infamous .303 bookworm.

Captured from commoncrawl.org on 19 Apr 2015. original URL