 The next insect is black turpentine beetle and the black turpentine beetle is a very large beetle within the bark beetle family. So you will have ips beetle, southern pine beetle and black turpentine beetle. Black turpentine beetle will be the largest black beetle on your test. They produce these large pitch tubes when they bore into trees so you could see pitch tubes. Very very large black beetle and you can see a size difference if you compare it to an ips beetle. There is a definite size difference and the southern pine beetle is about the same size or smaller than this ips beetle and is more of a reddish brown color. So the black turpentine beetle is the largest beetle and it is solid black and it forms these large massive pitch tubes from the pitch exuding from the tree as the beetle bores in. So that is the black turpentine beetle.