Bark beetle galleries

I love finding the galleries left by the burrowing larvae of bark beetles (Scotytidae family) when the bark covering flakes off dead branches. Here we have the typical pattern of one of the Scolytus beetles - a central long chamber where the female deposits multiple eggs and the radiating side chambers then dug out by individual larvae. It's amazing just how predisposed we are, as humans, to find messages and meaning in such natural phenomena. To me, there's the same sort of excitement that cave paintings generate and I'm tempted to see the image of an amazing centipede-like creature here.