Siemasko, and other fungi are visible in scanning electron micrographs of pits on the
pronotum and elytra of Ips typographus (L.). Inoculation and reisolation experiments show
that O. polonicum was transmitted to logs at generally higher frequencies by live beetles and
their excised parts (head, prothorax, or elytra) than by the digestive tract. Other associated
fungi isolated at high frequencies from I. typographus were O. bicolor Davidson & Wells, O …