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The European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), is a species of bark beetle in the true weevil family, Curculionidae. It is found in Europe and Asia Minor and east to China, Japan, North Korea and South Korea. Bark beetles are so named because they reproduce in the inner bark, living and dead phloem tissues, of trees. Their preferred trees in which to reside include spruces, firs, pines and larches. The species has the ability to spread quickly over large areas and some scientists hypothesize that long-distance movements originating from the Iberian Peninsula may have contributed to its invasion of northern Norway spruce forests. This female European spruce bark beetle was photographed in Naninne in the province of Namur, Belgium.
A big wave breaking in Santa Cruz, California on this date in 2009.
I took contact with Wikipedia in January of 2007. The idea of a free encyclopedia with the aim of having an important part of the common knowledge of humanity felt irresistible so since then I try to help improving this huge work.
I hereby give this Coming of the Cavalry Award to Garrondo, for helping out in a long hard slog when it was most needed. Cheers, Casliber (talk·contribs) 04:20, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Together for the golden wikistars! International solidarity badge. Awarded to Garrondo by CopperKettle. Thank you for your work in upgrading the Alzheimer's disease article and helping me translate it! Its just received the GA status at RuWiki! CopperKettle 18:18, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Garrondo, for your valiant contributions to numerous medical articles, and many hours helping get Huntington's Disease to GA status have the Medicine barnstar. L∴V 00:53, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
In September of 2009 the featured articles I had heavily contributed to (Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, treatment of multiple sclerosis and Huntington's disease) summed to the Spanish and Russian versions of the Alzheimer's disease article received a total of more than half a million visits (566.412)