Thank you, Fleur, for the new cam link - this is interesting too!

I hope we get to watch this soon.
European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), German: Buchdrucker, is a species of beetle in the weevil subfamily Scolytinae...
(Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_ ... ark_beetle)
In the video that is already there (no time stamp) I was looking for the spruce bark beetle but instead spotted one of its predators - probably the ant beetle (Thanasimus formicarius). Photos enhanced for sharpness.
These prey on the adult bark beetle as well as on its offspring. They are helpful in decimating the bark beetles temporarily, but can not stop mass infestation. (Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanasimus_formicarius and more detailed in the German version)
