![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107004216im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Wielding Microbe Against Microbe, Beetle Defends its Food Source
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October 2, 2008
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As the southern pine beetle moves through the forest boring tunnels inside the bark of trees, it brings with it both a helper and a competitor. The helper is a fungus that the insect plants inside the tunnels as food for its young. But also riding along is a tiny, hitchhiking mite, which likewise, carries a fungus for feeding its own larvae.
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