The fore part of the head is notched, and the hind end of the body is rounded.
Mature beetles are dark reddish-brown with slightly lighter wings.
The egg is pearly white and just visible to the naked eye. They are legless grubs with glossy, reddish-brown heads and wrinkled, curved bodies. The pupa is delicate, white, and shaped somewhat like the adult. Biology Found throughout North Carolina, southern pine beetles occur from Pennsylvania southwest to Arizona and south to Honduras. In its range, southern pine beetles breed in all species of yellow, white, red, and spruce pines, and in red and Norway spruce.