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A rusty brown bark beetle, the length of a grain of rice, lands on a ponderosa pine. Tiny insect legs make a clicking sound, as the beetle scales the tree. Twitching its antennae, the miniature assassin readies itself to bore into the pine, often the tree’s death knell. This scene is from Episode 3 Breaking Point of the Netflix documentary Our Living World.

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