FIELD RESEARCH IN PINE FORESTS OF SWEDEN
John Byers
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
12. More views...
Beetle traps:
1. rotating trap pair
2. another view
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
12. close up of 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
Pityogenes spp. on Scotch pine:
1. Galleries
2. Nuptial chamber
"myrbagge"
European red bellied clerid
Thanasimus formicarius:
1. Walking on bark
2. Feeding on Tomicus
3. hunting on bark
4. more hunting
5. waiting...
6. mating pair perching
7. 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
7. Male with finger
8. Male A. aedulis
9. Female perching
Various insects (non-research):
1. Geotrupes male/female
2. Geotrupes walking
3. Geotrupes on stump
4. Geotrupes eats worms
5. Pissodes pini weevil
6. Pissodes pini weevil
7. another view
8. Pieris brassicae
9. same flying
10. same landed
11. Rhagium inquisitor
12. Formica spp. ant
13. Formica spp. ants with catepillar
14. still fighting
15. Camponotus spp.
16. Anoplius viaticus
17. Diptera: Muscid fly