apple borer

English

Noun

apple borer (plural apple borers)

  1. Any of several types of beetles or moths that bore into the trunks of apple and other fruit trees as larvae
    1. the roundheaded apple borer (Saperda candida)
    2. Saperda bivittata
    3. the flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata)

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