borer

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The forester examined the tree and found D-shaped holes — the calling card of the goldspotted oak borer — where the beetles had chewed through the tree to emerge from the bark.

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

For several years, Tamm has worked alongside the La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians to research how indigenous cultural burning practices can be used to tackle the oak borer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024

Some of the earliest efforts to use urban wood systemically started in the Midwest in the early 2000s, as the invasive emerald ash borer killed millions of ash trees.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2022

When a wholesale application of heptachlor was made to the farmlands in Louisiana in 1957, the result was the unleashing of one of the worst enemies of the sugarcane crop — the sugarcane borer.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson