WA's borer crisis is spreading past containment lines and into some of our most dense forests with almost 4,000 trees now destroyed as the tiny beetle marches on.

The polyphagous shot-hole borer is about the size of a sesame seed, but if it finds a tree it likes it can rapidly multiply, growing from just a few beetles, to hundreds, to thousands in a short time.

TikTok users were equally intrigued by the bugs in the video, with some saying they are weevils. They are likely to be flour beetles, according to a January WebMD article medically reviewed by Dr.

And all of that, according to scientists, is linked to the climate crisis, which is making drought and heat more frequent and more intense. Then comes the kicker: A native beetle, the flatheaded fir ...