apple borer

English

Noun

apple borer (plural apple borers)

  1. Any beetle or moth that bores into the trunks of apple and other fruit trees as larvae, including:
    1. a roundheaded apple borer (Saperda candida, syn. Saperda bivittata)
    2. a flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata)
    3. a red-belted clearwing, apple clearwing moth (Synanthedon myopaeformis)
    4. an apple stem borer (Apriona cinerea)
    5. an apple twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus)
    6. an apple trunk borer (Coryphodema tristis)

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