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- For instance, the newly invading redbay ambrosia beetle (Xyleborus glabratus) attacks a native plant species, swamp bay (Persea palustris), infecting trees with the deadly laurel wilt fungus (Raffaelea sp.) Laurel wilt damage to swampbay trees on an Everglades tree island (left), which is caused by the laurel wilt fungus carried by the nonnative redbay ambrosia beetle (right). Note the scale: the adult insect is less than 3 mm long. (Fraedrich et al.,)
- In durian (Durio zibethinus Murray), an important tropical fruit tree, Euwallacea fornicatus (Eichhoff) has been reported as severely infesting the stems and main
branches of durian trees and causing short-term epidemics in Malaysia and Indonesia, countries where the durian is native.