borer
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This is the farthest north the goldspotted oak borer has been found in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2026
Ideally, he'd plant a variety that could resist the coffee berry borer, a beetle that feasts on coffee cherries, and that would ripen with greater uniformity.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2024
Durbin described the goldspotted oak borer as “just like a cancer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024
Christine Buhl, a forest health specialist for the Oregon Department of Forestry, plunges a tool called an increment borer into the dead tree’s trunk.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
There the root borer is a serious pest of the banana, so weakening its roots that the trees are easily toppled by wind.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
