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Tree-killing beetle found to be attracted to Britain’s most common spruce

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Eight -toothed European spruce bark beetle found to be equally attracted to Sitka spruce.

Sitka accounts for a quarter of Britain ’s forest cover and half its commercial forestry plantations.

Since 2013 , more than 100 m cubic metres of Norway spruce have been killed by the pest.

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